Game Addiction is playing any video game that is over the limit of usage.
It's bring you to a virtual word that isolate these gamers from the social contact(Family, friends, etc)
Games, Good or bad?
How to one benefit from gaming?
Studies shows that gaming do benefit the human body.
However it's depending on what type of game does the user play with.
One example, tetris can make the player's brain much more efficient.
Gamers reactions are faster than non-gamers.
When there's a slight movement, it was immediately notice within the target area they were told to focus on view thru the monitor.
It is also proved that different type of game produce a different type of aspect the gamers could adopt beside learning from the actual thing.
- Accuracy
- Reacting quicker
- Processing
- Better visual and hearing
It give a slight background information about it by closing the gap in between.
Some games make it so realistic that is seems like it's a real life situation. With every things that happening, making every seconds counts.
For example a game like Second Life.
Second Life is like a world fill with people however it's created by our imaginations, with things we all do. Being a racers, engineers or even a doctor.
A university in San Jose State created this from Second life to train their medical students. With every equipment they have, data that they will produces and even the life of the patients is almost as good as a real operations is going out.
They take Second Life as a simulation.
To train themselves.
More information click here.
You may wonder that this is not link to the title of game addictions.
However addictions means; 'the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity'.
This is quoted from Google dictionary.
As it means being addicted to an activity, the things we do repeatedly means we're addicted to it.
To say it a simpler term, without messaging for a month or using your handphone. Can you survive the change? I doubt so.
Therefore game addiction may be a form of a good thing if they do it for the sake of learning.
However this does not mean that game addiction is not bad at all
Game addiction have its own bad points, and it is really bad. Not just physically bad but mentally bad in their own ways
How is game addiction bad?
There is a lot of cases showing youths died after a long run of gaming, or gaming marathon in their terms.
Here's a few cases that happen over the years:
There are plenty more, click here for more informations.
What are the actual causes for all these death?
For one, he died due a heart attack in an internet cafe or mostly know as a LAN shop.
Test proven that it is due to the cold weather produced by the air conditions in the shop, fatigue and lack of movement.
He was sitting at there for almost 24 hours and the only movements is his fingers stretched out from his hand.
Some got mentally insane from excess gaming. It's due to them being so addicted from it, having a few hours off it would make them kill just to return back to their game.
Other causes.
Games have proven to relieves people from their stress from reality.
However there are people who play games just to unlock in-game achievements and would spend hours and hours just to complete it.
In some games, completing it would give them extra fame to their names.
Sleep is one of the key factor. Due to excess amount of time spend of gaming, gamers usually keep themselves awake just to play.
Having lack of sleep just causes the mind to relapse and be unstable. It will affect the thoughts and could not think straight.
How does game affect the gamer mind?
As said, excess amount of time spend on gaming would deeply affect them.
One famous game in the world would be Grand Theft Auto(GTA).
GTA have been really successful in their career and create different volume of games.
In the world of GTA, you can do anything you want to; be it stealing a car, killing anyone and avoid the police without being caught.
However there's a teenagers who played too much game which in particular is GTA
He was a clean person, with no criminal records.
But with playing GTA too much as made this game as his simulator to kill policemen and carjacking the police car.
This person was Devin Moore(click for more informations)
Game Addiction
In conclusion, as a gamer I believe playing games is acceptable, everyone need to relax their mind, to escape from this world for just a brief moment. Playing for a couples of hours is alright, but not to an extend which is more than half of the day.
Having ample rest, meals and outdoors would help prevent any deaths from gaming.
Cheers!
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