One of this century’s most terrible problems – the addiction to video games. It is a real and growing problem inside the general population and it even treatens to reach the levels of the drug and alcohol addiction.
Another bad thing with this is, that video game addicts can be little children as well as an 80 year old grandmother.
The starting point to video game addiction becomes when a person usually has personal problems in his life and career and he seeks for an alternative reality where those problems don’t really matter. Later, this alternative reality becomes so attracting and inseparable, that the person refuses to come back and face the real issues around him. This bound is purely psychological. Some people say that this “diseases” is standing on the person’s choice and will, so there is no real treatment. It is clearly see able that 1 out of 10 of the youth is a video game addict.
In the clinical field, the video game addiction is described to have very similar symptoms like any other kind of addiction, like drug, cigarette or alcohol addiction. When people experience a trauma, highly emotional moment or they are just having a hard time in their life, they seek for an alternative world to hide into. However, in general, the video game addicts seek for a new life, because they don’t like their current social situation, so basically anyone can become an addict at any time.
For the addicted video gamer, it is not a problem to play 15 hours a day in his bedroom at his game console, but that is not really a thing that this person should be bashed for. In fact, the person is doing pain to himself by being anti-social and separated. Sooner or later, every game addict realizes this.
All this said, the video game addiction is a growing, global problem and there will be a lot of speech about it through the years to come. There are different treatment programs for the “sick”, but it all depends on the persons strong will and motivation to quit playing games.
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