Recent studies show that heavy gamers are more depressed than moderate gamers - but is gaming the cause?
It's about 4pm, and an internet café in Sydney’s CBD is about half full.
The crowd of gamers are mainly university students fresh from their latest classes, blasting their way through a first-person shooter, or scurrying across the battlegrounds of a role-playing odyssey.
Some are in groups of four or five, hurling insults at each other as they play. Others are hunched over their keyboards - silent and focused.
Staff here say if a customer plays for six to eight hours they're asked to stop.
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Staying indoors and not talking to anyone is very bad for your mental health, the anti-social nature is terrible and leads to depression and axiety, look it up.
I don't have to go outside and be exposed to Radiation or Gunshots!
Gamer 4 Life!!
This is why you can link young mass murderers to video games. They were playing obsessively to escape their issues in real life.
I agree gaming can be a positive thing but it should be something you do when you want. Addiction is when something rules over you and you're a slave to it. If thats how people are with gaming, they need help.
I think the major media outside of gaming is extremely jealous. They see numbers video games do and the numbers it attracts. And they're on the outside looking in trying to bring it all down at any chance they get.
This is about the same as people who have a gambling addiction. Only difference is gamers don't go in debt to game. Unless you do then you for sure have an addiction and should seek help ASAP. It's funny cause most of the people in my small town go to work, come home, get their daily tasks out of the way so they can sit in front of their TV's and watch some lame show. Same thing gamers do without the LAME SHOW! Keep on gaming dont listen to the naysayers they are so very wrong, and I think deep down their jealous because they know we have awesome gaming times. People need to STOP being so damn uptight about everything. If I'm not hurting anyone besides myself then nobody should be saying jack squat.
I have waves of gaming. Winter I usually play a lot, while right now I'm happy to get 1-2 hours in a week.
Until halo 4 comes out and i'll turn off the cell phone for a few days... or longer
It's strange, I know a cousin ( age 12)who is quite. Never really wants nothing to do with people. The only time is able to express himself is when he is gaming. Even when he comes over my house he turns the box on and just games. Turns out when I talked with his mother( my first cousin) she said that his father exposed him to things that he was even to young to understand. So, gaming seems to be his only refuge. This can be a problem because it seems he misses school to game.