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Irene Jimenez Padilla used to suffer persistent traumatic flashbacks from her time as a nurse during the Covid-19 pandemic. Then a cult computer puzzle game changed everything.
Ms Padilla was plagued by memories centred on patients who had died painful deaths in front of her at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals in London. The images kept on returning like an “annoying fly that continuously comes, again and again, buzzing, buzzing, buzzing”, she recalls.
