Gaming is big business but it has its downside. People have died from gaming
and the world is recognizing that game addiction is serious and spreading fast.
Mental health professionals opine that gaming can destroy lives, keep students
from focusing on learning, workers from working, and women from their duties.
There are instances where gamers have not left home for years.
Games like EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot, and others are popularly referred to
as heroinware. And symptoms of addiction according to Computer Addiction
Services at McLean Hospital are: obsession with the game; inability to stop;
neglect of family and work; lying to hide activity; problems with studies and
work; health problems, muscular as well as vision related; neglect of personal
hygiene; as well as sleep disturbances.
The games provide social interaction to lonely people, gamers gain
acknowledgement as well as power denied elsewhere due to their gaming
expertise, and the game weaves a spell on the mind—one gets so absorbed by the
virtual realities that it is hard to get away.
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