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.

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.

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.

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.

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 are a few ways to deal with gaming addiction: 1. ** Guidance on cognition **: Let the addicted person realize the harm that gaming addiction brings to their physical and mental health, social interaction, and life, so that they can mentally warn themselves not to be addicted to gaming and maintain a healthy lifestyle. 2. ** Living habits **: Establishing healthy living habits, such as exercising regularly every day, ensuring adequate sleep, and a reasonable diet. This healthy lifestyle helps to resist the temptation of gaming addiction. 3. ** Transfer of interests **: actively look for other hobbies, such as reading, traveling, sports, music, etc. Gaming addiction was often due to a lack of other interests, resulting in excessive reliance on games. New hobbies could distract one's attention from games. 4. ** Game time control **: If you are addicted, you can take measures to control the length of the game, such as setting a game time limit, avoiding eating snacks during the game, not playing games in bed, etc., gradually reduce the game time and return to normal life order. 5. ** Seeking external help **: If you can't control your gaming addiction, you can seek external help, such as finding a psychiatrist or attending a game rehabilitation class. In addition, for children with game addiction, parents can stimulate their children's interest in learning, provide channels for their children to vent their emotions, give enough care and companionship, cultivate their children's self-control and ability to manage time from an early age, and also help their children build self-confidence, optimism, and anti-stress attitudes through positive education in psychology.

There were a few ways to combat gaming addiction: ** 1. Arouse your own positive pursuit and sense of responsibility ** 1. ** Learn from the painful experience and recognize the dangers ** - He had to be deeply aware of the possible negative effects of excessive addiction to games, such as time-consuming, demoralizing, and so on, so that he could make up his mind to get rid of the state of game addiction. 2. ** Stressing one's duty and beliefs ** - For example, men could clarify their responsibilities such as making contributions, earning money to support their families, filial piety to their parents, and so on. They could strengthen their belief in overcoming gaming addiction, strengthen their self-control, and remind themselves not to be influenced by the game. ** Two, cut off the connection with the game ** 1. ** Completely delete the game client ** - This was a more direct and effective method. It was like quitting smoking and completely bidding farewell to the game. 2. ** Destroy rare items in the game and block game information ** - Before deleting the game client, destroy the rare items in the game, and exit the game discussion group to avoid talking about the game. Don't look at the game related pages and information, so as to stay away from the game psychologically and physically. ** 3. Diversion ** 1. ** Find a substitute hobby ** - They could go out and participate in sports, such as going to the gym, playing basketball, etc., or find other beneficial activities, such as learning new knowledge and skills, to reduce their dependence on games. 2. ** Use alternative software ** - For example, finding learning software and so on, and shifting the time originally used for games to other beneficial things. ** 4. Psychological and emotional intervention ** 1. ** A way to vent your emotions ** - Through music, sports, Fang Shuren's paintings, and other means to express their inner thoughts and feelings, thereby reducing the need to seek emotional comfort through games. 2. ** Psychological intervention ** - For example, cognitive behavior therapy, motivational interview, family therapy, etc., to recognize the harm and symptoms of game addiction, learn self-management, appropriately control the time spent playing games, change the cognition of games, realize the multi-factored nature of games, and restrain their addictive behavior. ** 5. Guidance at Family and Education Level ** 1. ** Arouse learning interest ** - Through the way of interaction, people (especially children) could feel the joy of learning and reduce their focus on the game. 2. ** Give enough care and companionship and cultivate self-control ** - Parents should give their children enough care and companionship. At the same time, they should pay attention to cultivating their children's self-control and ability to manage time from an early age. 3. ** Increase gaming media literacy ** - Through the establishment of psychological guidance courses, publicity and education activities, strengthening family education, etc., to improve their (or children's) gaming media literacy and enhance their ability to resist gaming addiction. ** 6. Establishing a reward and punishment mechanism ** - For example, children could be given a certain amount of disposable pocket money, but if they could not stop playing according to the rules, they would take away part of the pocket money according to the rules. If they stopped playing, they could stop the loss, so as to encourage them to reduce the time they played.

According to the international classification of diseases issued by the World Health Organization, there are three main criteria for determining gaming addiction: first, the behavior of playing games is out of control, and there is no way to control the start, end, and duration of the game; second, the behavior of playing games becomes a priority in life, despite the negative consequences of the game.(For example, interpersonal relationships break, career or academic impact, health damage, etc.) still cannot be stopped; Third, the game behavior pattern leads to obvious personal, family, interpersonal relationships, academic, career, or other important functional areas of damage.

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).