Video games are a good way to waste some time when you are bored. With all the genres of games we have today, there is a game for everyone out there that will get him addicted on the opening screen. Some of us know how it is to be addicted to a game and we keep playing for hours and days without stopping. I remember when Need For Speed: Most Wanted was released. I stayed at home a week trying to finish it. I was a mess after finishing it. As it is said, everything should be done in moderation.
Gaming for long periods of times can do some serious damage to the body even if your brain is all hyped up and happy. Physical consequences of gaming addiction include carpal tunnel, migraines, sleep disturbances, backaches, eating irregularities, and poor personal hygiene. These might not seem so bad after playing GTA V, i personally do not mind them. I have also noticed from personal experience that you can also be very disoriented after long hours of gaming and experience a 5 second blackout when you get out of the chair or bed. By blackout, i mean you start seeing black in front of your eyes for a couple of seconds right when you get up.
Now, how do games affect us on a more personal level? Playing long hours sometimes means that the gamer is a social outcast. The gamer doesn't go out much and has problems communicating with other people. Therefore they find themselves being all alone and they find their comfort in the feeling they get from games. Some can get really depressed after a game finishes since they were very attached to the characters. I remember when i finished Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, i just wasn't myself after that. It is weird in a way how people can get so attached to something that doesn't exist.
Other consequences of gaming are pathological gaming, weekly amount of game play, impulsiveness, social competence, depression, social phobia, anxiety and depression. Some of us will say that this doesn't apply, that is true if you game in moderation. However, we do have people who either have personal problems or are outsiders who found themselves in games and that is where they spend their time day by day taking gaming to an extreme level.
Gaming for long periods of times can do some serious damage to the body even if your brain is all hyped up and happy. Physical consequences of gaming addiction include carpal tunnel, migraines, sleep disturbances, backaches, eating irregularities, and poor personal hygiene. These might not seem so bad after playing GTA V, i personally do not mind them. I have also noticed from personal experience that you can also be very disoriented after long hours of gaming and experience a 5 second blackout when you get out of the chair or bed. By blackout, i mean you start seeing black in front of your eyes for a couple of seconds right when you get up.
Now, how do games affect us on a more personal level? Playing long hours sometimes means that the gamer is a social outcast. The gamer doesn't go out much and has problems communicating with other people. Therefore they find themselves being all alone and they find their comfort in the feeling they get from games. Some can get really depressed after a game finishes since they were very attached to the characters. I remember when i finished Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, i just wasn't myself after that. It is weird in a way how people can get so attached to something that doesn't exist.
Other consequences of gaming are pathological gaming, weekly amount of game play, impulsiveness, social competence, depression, social phobia, anxiety and depression. Some of us will say that this doesn't apply, that is true if you game in moderation. However, we do have people who either have personal problems or are outsiders who found themselves in games and that is where they spend their time day by day taking gaming to an extreme level.
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