online gaming addiction stories

One common pattern is neglecting real - life responsibilities. For example, not going to work or school regularly. Another is the deterioration of relationships as they focus more on the game than on family and friends.

I heard about a girl who became addicted to an online multiplayer game. She started to isolate herself from the outside world. She would rather play the game than engage in any social activities. Her sleep pattern was completely disrupted. She only realized how bad it was when she started to have mental health issues like anxiety and depression due to the excessive gaming.

The criteria for gaming addiction were as follows: 1. Losing control of the game, such as not being able to control the start, end, and duration of the game; being too focused during the game, playing the game for longer and longer without delay (playing the game takes priority over other things). 2. When the game failed or did not play the game, he was anxious and irritable. He knew the dangers of being addicted to the game but could not control himself. He hid the time he played the game from his family and friends. He released his emotions through the game. 3. Games became a priority in life, and even if games caused negative consequences (such as broken interpersonal relationships, career or academic impact, health damage, etc.), they could not be stopped; they had no other hobbies outside of games; and they lost basic social and work abilities. 4. According to the core characteristics of gaming disorder mentioned in the International classification of diseases, continuous or repeated gaming behavior patterns, which were specifically manifested as uncontrollable gaming behavior, were the main characteristics of gaming disorder.(e.g., unable to control the occurrence, frequency, duration, termination time, etc. of gaming behavior); Gaming behavior patterns can be continuous or paroxysm and last for 12 months, but if the symptoms are severe enough and other key diagnosis points are met, the duration can be shorter than 12 months; Gaming behavior patterns cause obvious personal, family, interpersonal relationships, academic, professional, or other important functional areas.

Gaming addiction can be solved in the following ways: 1. ** Guide your child to understand learning correctly **: As a parent, you must learn to guide your child correctly and convey the correct message to let the child understand that learning is for themselves and not for their parents. However, this is mainly for children who are addicted to games. 2. ** Stimulate learning interest **: For children who are addicted to games, you can reduce their dependence on games by stimulating their interest in learning. 3. ** A way to vent their emotions **: When a child is addicted to games, providing a way for them to vent their emotions will help solve the problem. 4. ** Give care, companionship, and cultivate self-control **: Parents should give their children enough care and companionship. At the same time, they should cultivate their children's self-control and ability to manage their own time from an early age. This is mainly for children who are addicted to games. 5. ** Build a positive attitude towards life **: Through positive psychology education, children can be helped to build a confident, optimistic, and pressure-resistant attitude towards life to solve the problem of children's game addiction. 6. ** Stay away from the gaming environment **: Addicts can download games from their phones and computers, control the time they spend on their phones and computers every day, hand over their phones to others for safekeeping, and restrict themselves from playing games. They can no longer go to the gaming hall. 7. ** Cultivate new interests and hobbies **: For example, reading, writing, listening to music, singing, painting, traveling, etc., so that you can come into contact with new things and shift your attention to other aspects of the game. 8. ** Seeking medical treatment **: If your gaming addiction is severe and you can't control it, you can consider seeking medical treatment to help you get rid of your gaming addiction through psychological or psychotherapy. 9. ** Diversion **: You can find other alternative activities, such as outdoor activities when you really want to play games, watching videos while walking, listening to music, etc., to reduce the stimulation of the game. The first seven days were the critical period in this process, and repetitions were allowed. As long as the game time and frequency gradually decreased, there was no need to blame yourself. 10. ** Reduce game excitement **: You can adopt a gameplay method that limits interaction, such as not checking in, not drawing, not receiving gold coins, not receiving props, etc. You can also set rules for yourself, such as not choosing a character. The first character given by the system will be the default character. During the game, you will follow a path and gradually deceive the brain, thereby reducing the excitement brought by the game. Through rationality, you can overcome the addictive design set by the game manufacturer. 11. ** Reduce curiosity **: For games that clear the game, you can check the scenes after clearing the game online. Just like how you can see spooks to solve your addiction to watching dramas, you can reduce the suspense and burden of the game and movies. 12. ** Enriching Life **: Understand the principle that there is no good in idle life, enrich your life, including reading, exercise, etc., and make some plans to avoid doing nothing all day. 13. ** Cultivate small good habits **: Gradually increase your control over your life by cultivating some small habits, such as doing a few jumping jumps and push-ups every day. Don't be greedy for the number of good habits, just two. Reduce bad habits by cultivating good habits.

In 2018, the World Health Organization defined gaming addiction as a mental illness. It is a continuous or relapsing game behavior (number game or video game, may be online or offline), features include impaired game controls (such as lack of self-control over the frequency, intensity, duration, termination time, situation, etc. of playing), overly high emphasis on the game (taking precedence over other life interests and daily activities), and continuing to play or even increasing the intensity of the game despite the negative effects. This behavior pattern lasted for at least 12 months and was serious enough to cause serious damage to personal, family, social, educational, professional, or other important functional areas. The main symptoms were being completely focused on the game, feeling anxious and irritable when stopping the game, increasing the time spent playing the game, being unable to reduce the time spent playing the game, giving up other activities, focusing on the game despite knowing the impact, hiding the time spent playing the game, relieving negative emotions through the game, losing work or social skills due to the game, and so on.

One horror story is about a young man who was so addicted to gaming that he neglected his health. He hardly ate or slept, just focused on the game. Eventually, he had a serious breakdown and had to be hospitalized due to extreme exhaustion and malnutrition.

There were a few ways to overcome gaming addiction: ** 1. Clear goals and plans ** 1. ** Set a clear goal ** - He had to be clear about why he wanted to quit gaming addiction, such as to improve his academic performance, improve his health, or to better devote himself to work. Then, he could set a clear goal. 2. ** Make a plan ** - Plan in detail how to reduce the game time. You can set a plan to gradually reduce the game's duration, such as reducing it from five hours to four hours a day, and then gradually reducing it to a lower duration, while increasing the time for other beneficial activities. ** 2. Mental construction ** 1. ** Stay positive ** - Believe that you have the ability to quit gaming addiction and don't give up easily. Even if there are repetitions in the process, you have to have confidence in yourself and treat these repetitions as a normal adjustment process. 2. ** Forgive yourself ** - Don't blame yourself too much just because you can't control yourself from playing games occasionally. Overcoming gaming addiction was a gradual process. He allowed himself to make mistakes, as long as he was moving in the direction of getting rid of gaming addiction. 3. ** Record progress ** - Periodically reviewing how you reduced your gaming time and increased your other activities, and evaluating your progress in overcoming your gaming addiction, will help motivate you to continue. ** 3. Seeking external support ** 1. ** Seeking support from family and friends ** - Tell your family and friends about your plan to quit gaming addiction and ask them to remind and encourage you when you want to play games. They can supervise you to carry out the plan or participate in activities to replace games together. 2. ** Consider professional help ** - If it was difficult for him to overcome his gaming addiction, he could seek help from professionals such as a counselor. They could provide more targeted advice and coaching based on the specific situation. ** 4. Find alternative activities ** 1. ** Arouse learning interest ** - For students or people with learning needs, they would invest the time they originally spent on the game into learning new knowledge and improving their skills. For example, reading books related to one's major or interest, participating in online or offline learning courses, and so on. 2. ** To provide a way to vent your emotions ** - You can release stress and emotions through exercise, such as running or playing basketball. They could also express their emotions through art forms such as painting and music, thereby reducing their reliance on games. 3. ** Cultivate a hobby ** - For example, photography, cooking, etc., to shift their attention from the game to these interesting and beneficial activities. 4. ** Increase social activities ** - Attend more social gatherings, volunteer activities, etc., expand your social circle, and gain satisfaction from interpersonal relationships instead of just getting social experience from games. ** 5. Cut off the game connection from the root ** 1. ** Completely delete the game client ** - This was a more decisive but effective method. Just like how one had to stay away from cigarettes to quit smoking, they could delete the game directly and reduce the convenience of playing the game. 2. ** Destroy rare items in the game (if any)** - Before deleting the game client, he would first get rid of the rare items in the game and exit the game discussion group. He would not look at the game-related information and block all content related to the game to reduce his psychological worries about the game.

The symptoms of gaming addiction were as follows: 1. Impaired game control, lack of self-control over the frequency, intensity, duration, termination time, situation, etc. of playing games. For example, playing games for more than ten hours a day, unable to control the game time, secretly playing games between work and study, sacrificing rest time to play games. 2. When they stopped playing games, they would experience emotional reactions such as discomfort, anxiety, and irritability. Some addicted people would also play games to relieve negative emotions such as guilt and despair. 3. The time spent playing games gradually increased, and it was impossible to reduce the time spent playing games or quit playing games. 4. The importance they attached to games continued to increase. Games took precedence over other life interests and daily activities. They gradually gave up on other activities and lost interest in their previous hobbies. 5. Even though he understood the impact the game had on him, he was still focused on the game. 6. Hiding his gaming time from his family or others. 7. Losing or possibly losing their jobs and social interactions because of games, such as those in the workplace who are addicted to games and have low work efficiency, miss promotion opportunities or even face joblessness, alienate from family and friends in social activities, and no longer participate in social activities. The solution to gaming addiction was as follows: 1. He would adjust his mentality and expectations, learn to stop greed and stop losses, and give the game addict enough understanding and support. 2. Build a good family atmosphere, strengthen parent-child communication, and guide the addict to release pressure correctly. 3. Arouse the addicted person's interest in learning. 4. To provide an outlet for the addicted to vent their emotions. 5. Give the addicted person enough care and companionship, and cultivate their self-control and ability to manage their own time from a young age. 6. Through the positive education of psychology, it helps the addict build a confident, optimistic, and pressure-resistant attitude towards life. 7. Parents should lead by example, use electronic products correctly, avoid being addicted to online games, and guide the addicted to develop good habits. 8. Increase the chances of the addict coming into contact with the real world. 9. Stay away from the game environment, such as uninstalling the game, controlling the time when using electronic devices, handing over the phone to others for safekeeping, and not going to the game hall. 10. Cultivate new hobbies, such as reading, writing, listening to music, singing, painting, traveling, etc., and shift your attention to other aspects of the game. 11. If the game addiction is serious and you can't control it, you can seek medical treatment and get rid of the game addiction through psychological or psychotherapy.

Here are some ways to overcome gaming addiction: 1. Understand the dangers of gaming addiction and clear the goal of detoxification: fully aware of the negative effects of gaming addiction on many aspects (such as academics, career, vision, family relationships, etc.), determine the purpose of getting rid of gaming addiction, and thus lay the foundation for overcoming addiction. 2. Establishing healthy lifestyle habits, including regular work and rest, reasonable diet, etc., to enrich your life and avoid over-reliance on games. 3. Find alternative activities, such as sports, reading, socializing, etc. Use these beneficial activities to replace games and shift your attention to these activities when you want to play games. Especially during the first seven days of gaming addiction, even if the process was repeated, as long as the time and frequency of gaming decreased overall, there was no need to blame yourself too much. 4. Control the game time: You can make plans to gradually reduce the game time, such as making a detailed schedule, setting a limit on the time you can play the game every day, and strictly enforce it. 5. Reduce game stimulation: When playing games, do not participate in activities that can bring timely feedback, such as check-in, lucky draw, and receiving gold coins and props. Limit interaction and play games. When playing games, follow specific rules, such as choosing default characters and playing according to a fixed path, to reduce the stimulation of the game to the brain. 6. [Clear the game by checking the clear screen: By checking the screen after the game is cleared, it can reduce curiosity about the game and reduce the attractiveness of the game.] 7. Ask for support: Tell your family and friends about your plan to kick your gaming addiction and ask for their support and encouragement. 8. Cultivate self-control and time management skills: Start by developing small good habits, such as doing a small number of jumping jumps or push-ups every day, gradually increase your control over your own life, cultivate self-control, and learn to manage your own time. 9. Build a good interpersonal environment: Increase interpersonal communication activities by a large margin, but exclude companions who go online or play games together. 10. Be tolerant of yourself: In the process of getting rid of gaming addiction, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes. Be patient with yourself and don't give up because of occasional mistakes. 11. Maintain a positive attitude: Believe that you can overcome your gaming addiction and treat the entire withdrawal process positively. If you can't overcome it on your own, you can consider seeking the help of professionals.

Avoiding gaming addiction could be done in the following ways: - ** goals and plans **: Find out the reason for quitting gaming addiction and set a clear goal. At the same time, make a detailed plan, such as gradually reducing game time and increasing other activities. - ** External support **: Inform your family and friends of your plans and seek their support and encouragement. - ** Substitute activities **: Find other activities such as sports, reading, and socializing to replace games. - ** Self-monitoring **: Record your progress in getting rid of your gaming addiction, evaluate it regularly, be patient with yourself, don't give up just because of occasional mistakes, and maintain a positive attitude. - ** Living Habits **: Build a healthy lifestyle and control the game time. - [Self-control: Cultivate your self-control, time management, and self-control.] - ** Psychological aspects **: By recognizing the dangers of gaming addiction, you can build a confident, optimistic, and pressure-resistant attitude towards life through positive education in psychology. You can also find things that can give you a sense of accomplishment, such as doing something rewarding. - ** Parental guidance (for children)**: Parents should give their children enough care and companionship, provide channels to vent their emotions, stimulate their children's interest in learning, guide their children's self-control, give their children more confidence and give them timely feedback (use Level 2 feedback to praise their children).