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VIDEO GAMES ADDICTION

VIDEO GAMES ADDICTION

Video game addiction is an excessive or compulsive use of computer games or video games, which interferes with a person's everyday life. Video game addiction may present as compulsive game playing and the exclusion of other life events.

Of course, all gamers are not addicts; many teens can play video games a few hours a week, successfully balancing school activities, grades, friends, and family obligations.

THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF VIDEO GAME ADDICTION

» Preoccupation: Some notes say that it may be a sign of an addiction if your child is constantly thinking about his next video game session, or declining social events with personal interaction because he's spending time discussing video games on the Internet.

» Health Problems: If your child spends all of his free time playing video games and skips meals or loses sleep because of excessive game play, a video game addiction can negatively impact his health.

» Poor Performance: Long hours playing video games can negatively affect your child's performance in school if he's preoccupied with video games. He can fail to work at his optimum level because he's exhausted from a late night of video game playing.

TIPS TO MINIMIZE VIDEO GAME ADDICTION

» Record how much you play a particular game or games for a week. Not shocked by the number of hours you have been playing for? If you are a true video games addict, you could be playing for upwards of 24 hours a week.

» World of Warcraft: easily one of the most addictive video games ever that should make you realize all the brilliant other things you could be doing with your time.

» In a similar vein to the last piece of advice, search out some of the best cheats a game has to offer. Cheating is guaranteed to break your addiction.

IMPORTANT WAYS TO DEFEAT THE VIDEO GAME ADDICTION

» An important tip is that once you have read a step by step guide on how to beat the game, the fun of discovering new things and finding what happens next is completely finished.

» And once there are no longer any challenges to a game, it will become boring faster when you can artificially boost your health.  

» Another important way is to play with friends is the best help to minimize video game addiction, for example, play a Wii game Michael Jackson The Experience is a multiplayer platform consisting get points just for the dance and movement of the player.

PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES OF GAMING ADDICTION

» Migraine headaches is an important physical consequences typically start in one spot and slowly spread, getting more painful as they progress.

» In severe cases, the pain can be so extreme that it causes the sufferer to vomit. Light and noise can cause excruciating pain. Someone who plays video games for extended periods of time is more prone to migraines because of the intense concentration required and the strain put on the eyes.

» The term sleep disturbances cover several sleep related disorders, including insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, nocturnal myoclonus periodic leg or arms jerks during sleep, night terrors, sleepwalking or talking, and nightmares.

ANOTHER IRREGULARITIES » Eating irregularities are caused by

gaming addiction simply because most addicted gamers don't want to take the time to eat properly.

» Rather than eating healthy, balanced meals, they eat food that is quick and usually unhealthy. In extreme cases, the gamer may choose not to eat at all.

» An addicted gamer is not going to take the time to properly care for himself. Showers, face-washing, and brushing hair and teeth all get put on the back burner. It simply becomes less of a priority, if it's a priority at all.

HYGIENE CARELESSLY

» These physical consequences will occur in varying degrees from one gamer to another. A gamer that is already in poor physical condition will be more susceptible to these effects early on.

» The video game addict, depending on their degree of addiction, takes place the toilet with irregularity because he does not care personal care, or health and that he thinks should only eat if necessary and bathe the slightest as maximum wash face with a little water.

CONCLUSION

» I tell you that the video game addiction is when a person of any age plays a game for a lot of hours by any reason. For example Adventure games in this type of game the player has an obligation to collect money, gold, find treasures and level the player character created before.

» There are many reasons to start playing at the age of 5 years is not uncommon nowadays is easy to play online. And ways to prevent and moderate video game addiction is very simple, but for this there is only one problem that just needs to know that your child it’s having a changing of her normal habits.

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