video game addiction

1. VIDEO Game Addiction

2. Video game addiction is real..
• Video game addiction is real.. Although it isn’t officially
recognized as a diagnosable disorder by the American
Medical Association, there is evidence that people of all
ages, are facing very real sometimes severe consequences
within the use of video games and computer games.
Instances have been reported where users play
compulsively, isolating themselves from family and
friends. There is no diagnosis of video game addiction in
current medical or psychological disorder

3. Emotional Symptoms
• There is no diagnosis of video game addiction in current
medical or psychological disorder. • Some symptoms of
addiction are • salience • mood modification, • Tolerance
of violence • withdrawal, • conflict, • and relapse

4. Addiction
• Video game players like to spend most of their free time,
playing video games. But for some people, what starts out
as an innocent video game player becomes an addiction.
Soon, friends, family, and school are neglected every
spare moment spent is playing video games

5. Addiction
• What makes video games so addictive is that they
designed them kind of like casinos. They allow players to
have small “wins” that can keep them playing, and then it
can turn into a big win. There are different “hooks” that
are built in the video games with the intent to make them
“addictive”.

6. Most addictive
• What can be especially addictive is MMORPGs, also known
as Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. The
reason why this is probably the most addictive is because
there is no ending. What do you try and do when your on
a video game? You usually try to beat your score that you
played last with, or try to beat the game.. Right? Well
that’s why you are so addicted to them, because they
make you play them more!

7. Physical Consequences of Gaming
Addiction
• You finally found a new passage way to the next level.
You’re so excited that you barely notice the pain in your,
nor notice your on the verge of getting a headache..
Again. You may also suffer other consequence's such as
carpal tunnel (which is caused when the main nerve
between the forearm and hand is squeezed or pressed. It
may get swollen or irritated.) , migraines, sleep
disturbances, backaches, eating irregularities, and poor
personal hygiene. When I mean personal hygiene I mean
you aren’t taking showers regularly, brushing your teeth,
combing your hair, and other things you may need to do

8. Social Consequences of Gaming
Addiction
• People are to busy playing there games that their personal
relationships get neglected and sometimes disappear
altogether. Its not just neglect that cots addicted gamers their
relationships. Some people talk about their game, and what its
about so much that people no longer want to be around them.
They won’t/can’t get into the real world conversations or be a
source of support or encouragement to friends and family.
Because their friends are talking about something else and
they may feel left out, or un-wanted. An addicted teenager
won’t develop effective social skills, which won’t help him
when her wants to hangout with friends, girls/or guys, or just
hangout and enjoy peoples company. The social awkwardness
created by the addiction then comes in..

9. Violence of Video Games
•
The most popular games used today are “COD-1-2-3-4”
“ “ Grand Theft Auto” “Syndicate” “Kingdoms of Amalur:
Reckoning” & etc. Usually in these games you are a U.S or
British soldier who is sent to the military to defeat the
worlds most dangerous and strongest enemies. As the
violence in video games increase, so has the concern for
the effects on those who play. Many of the school
shootings in recent years have been carried out by avid
gamers, their games of choice were dark, and very violent

10. Treatment Options for Video Game
Addicts.
• • A therapist or treatment • Maybe if you join a school
sport or hobby like swimming or dancing, different sports
out of school • Go into a summer camp or wilderness
program that will get you back into the environment, and
social life. • Talk to people who have the same problem,
and resolve it together.

11. Resources'
• • http://www.video-game-addiction.org/ •
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction •
http://www.video-game-addiction.org/what-makes-
games-addictive.html • http://www.video-game-
addiction.org/physical-consequences.html •
http://www.video-game-addiction.org/social-
consequences.html •
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?sort=moviemeter,asc
&title_type=game&year=2012,2012 • http://www.video-
game-addiction.org/violence.html • http://www.video-
game-addiction.org/video-game-addiction-
treatment.html