Game addiction

Game addiction's disease overview

Game addiction is defined as an inability to control the cravings of gaming, play continuously and prioritize the top gaming in his life. Play to the level dependent on the game and increasingly isolate yourself with family, friends and society.

Online game addiction increasingly demands to play more games in order to keep their current psychological state, if not achieved items This destination, online game addicts will be angry and can cause violent acts that are dangerous.

Causes of Game addiction's disease

Causes of game addiction are divided into direct causes and indirect causes.

Direct causes:

Satisfaction feeling after defeating the game due to the brain releases excitement.

The desire to conquer, express yourself when playing the game.

The need to master yourself, get the act as you like when playing the game.

Psychological conflicts in puberty are also the cause of game addiction such as: like to express personal ego but not supported by the family, feeling lonely, dissatisfied in life

Indirect causes:

The lack of attention and sharing of parents and families makes children addicted to games more and more.

The shortage of healthy space makes children without a healthy entertainment environment, no time to play, care and no one next to accompany.

Symptoms of Game addiction's disease

Game addicts often have two main symptoms: drug addicts and depression symptoms.

Symptoms of drug addiction like drug addiction

If there are two or more symptoms, it is considered to be addicted to game addiction:

Craving for gaming: Excessive attention to online games, always talk about the game, not interested in other things.

Continuous gaming does not rest: Play continuously and have no break time.

Unsurprisingly play game and play time. Despite wanting to play games with less time, game addicts still cannot act according to their initial thoughts.

Not interested in other tasks: Game addicts often do not care about anything other than the game, they neglect the surrounding relationships like family and friends. Study, work stagnant, not conducted. Even eating and personal hygiene are not done.

Matching emotions: When there is an unpleasant emotion or bad situation, game addicts often play games to hide these emotions. They use the virtual world in the game to not face problems that arise in life.

Lie from gaming time: Game addicts tend to lie to family about gaming time.

Spend a lot of money on gaming: Game addicts often invest a lot of money to play games and buy gaming devices.

Unstable emotions: When playing games, game addicts will have a stimulating state, excitement when playing and can also be disappointed. This emotion may still exist after playing.

Symptoms of depression

Depressed mood: Monotonous face, bewildered, sad.

Loss of interest and interests: No more excitement in other areas such as music, sports. They are no longer interested in studying, eviding up to play games.

Insomnia: often insomnia, the game addict is very young because playing games until late at night or playing all night.

anorexia and eat less: eat through meals, without cravings so eat very little. Therefore, game addicts often lose weight very quickly.

Mental mental disorders: Slow, lethargic activity when exposed to reality.

Children are tired, exhausted by playing games for hours.

The feeling of useless, sin: they realize that playing games is a sin but cannot stop this but still have to continue playing to run away that sense of sin .

Hard to focus, think and decide

may intend to commit suicide

People at risk for Game addiction's disease

The following risk objects will be more likely to suffer from game addiction:

Children depressed, worried, inferiority.

Children are less involved in community activities.

Children who are not concerned by their families, schools, society.

Children with unhappy family circumstances, psychological trauma, emotional injuries.

Prevention of Game addiction's disease

To prevent game addiction, children need great support from families and society:

Chat and confide with children.

Let children participate in healthy activities outside, useful social activities.

Monitor the child's schedule to promptly detect signs of game addiction.

Do not let children come into contact with game addiction environments.

Diagnostic measures for Game addiction's disease

Accuracy of game addiction disease has not been given but now, the following criteria are being temporarily accepted by scientists:

Play online games for two hours a day and have at least two of the following symptoms:

Craving for gaming

Continuous gaming does not have time to break

Incidentally controlled my own gaming behavior

It takes a lot of time to play games

Not interested in other issues in life

Matching my emotions by playing the game to not face it.

Lie about online gaming time.

Use a lot of money to serve gaming

Symptoms of depression.

Game addiction's disease treatments

To treat game addiction, need to do the following:

Stop playing games every day

Cut the game addiction by using sedatives and anti -depression

Treatment of anti -game addiction: Treatment with drugs and psychological therapies.

Social psychotherapy includes

Giving up the Internet: Game addicts should give up playing online games completely, and stay away from the Internet because it is constantly innovating the game so it attracts players. Therefore, in order to give up the online game, the game addicts need to absolutely not use the Internet.

Strengthen physical and cultural activity:

Game addicts should participate in healthy outdoor activities such as walking, cycling, playing sports. Can go to visit, travel or participate in social activities to increase interaction with people around, in order to forget the desire to play games before.

Psychological therapies

Game addicts should participate in cognitive psychological-behavioral therapies and information exchange groups on how to overcome game addiction.

Because this is a difficult task for game addicts, it is necessary to maintain treatment for a minimum of six years.

In addition, family and social factors also play a very important role in the treatment of game addiction. People need to care about children as well as when the family observes that children show signs of game addiction, they need to take to medical facilities for mental illness to promptly diagnose and treat them.

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