The gaming addiction has been around since 1970. Even when arcades were just becoming popular, people would spend hour upon hour inside the dark buildings and comminute to play until they beat the game, they were obsessed. People, who suffer with this type of addiction, truly do experience the craving, compulsion and withdrawal that those who suffer from substance addict do. It is becoming a reality that more and more youth in America who are between the ages of eight and eighteen are quickly becoming addicted to video games. Now that the internet and home gaming units are available for gaming, many are no longer leaving their homes to go to an arcade but simply staying inside of their home.
Just as with computer addiction, gamin addiction causes the addicted to remove themselves from reality and soon lose friends, have no relationship and begin reducing the amount of care they take for themselves. It is common to find an addicted gamer who has bad personal hygiene and is slowing becoming a recluse. Gamers tend to feel as though the friends and relationships that they have with their gamer friends are more of a reality than those who they have in real life. With role playing games and the high quality of technology today, gamers can even see their new friends online and feel as though they truly together in person.
When someone has a gaming addiction, their reality has become skewed. The time spent on the gaming goes from a few hours day to day to an endless amount of time spent on the game. The social destruction they are causing on their life can sometimes be immeasurable and in many ways difficult to reverse if it has been too long since real life interaction. A person who is addicted to gaming can be classified as a person who spends more than twenty-four hours a week playing games.
Many times, especially if the gamer is young, they will have a system or computer in their bedroom which allows them to have endless amounts of time on the system. It is found that you can tell when a youth is becoming addicted to gaming because their grades will begin to fall, their friends will begin to diminish and become angry about being confronted about their gaming activity. If this sounds familiar about you or someone you love, now is the time to get help to stop the addiction to gaming.
