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These days, Technology is everywhere. Everyone, even kids or adults, is using it right now such as Smartphones, personal computer, laptop, Video game Console, Television and other electronic devices. And the most addictive thing people do on electronic devices is playing video games, So they can relax from work and school when they release stress. Yes, they do help us release stress but playing video games too much might affect their health as well. When people start to become addicted to video games it will cause many bad things to them, especially it makes them lose interaction with the outside world, other people. It is true that playing some games can increase a player’s IQ but It causes a lot of bad effects such as Mental health, Physical health and makes them Anti-social.
Damage physical health
People nowadays spend a lot of hours playing video games and this action causes many problems for them, especially physical health. According to a website called Nature.com said that “Playing video games causes your brain to release dopamine.” As we know that dopamine is very important for learning and concentration. If we lose it, we won’t be able to concentrate well on our studies anymore. It will make us spend more time on video gaming and forget about other activities such as sports or any exercises and that will increase many risks on our health. More than that the screen damages our eyesight because our eyes will be damaged if we look at heavy viewing of digital images from electronic devices too much for long times.
Mental Health:
Gaming disorder is one of the mental health conditions. It happens when a person has been playing video games too much that they start to develop the difficulty in controlling the amount of time that they spend on playing video games which in the other word we say addicted. Having game disorder can be really bad for you both physical and mental health since you spend most of your time in front of the computer playing it. Another thing is wasting too much money on games because of addiction. When you become addicted to a game, you most like to spend a lot of money on the game without even thinking properly. Then we can say that money is completely wasted. After that people will become more aggressive in behaviour. This mostly applies to kids more than teenagers but they also get an impact too. There are a lot of categories of games. Some games are really violent, and by playing those games can make you develop an aggressive behaviour that you never expect. According to The World of Health Organization (WHO) said “Gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time ” … “It will suggest that abnormal gaming behaviour should be in evidence over a period of at least 12 months “for a diagnosis to be assigned” but added that period might be shortened “if symptoms are severe”.”
Anti-social:
Playing video games doesn’t always make people leaning toward anti-social behaviour but playing too much video games might. Another term for spending too much time playing video games is gaming addiction which is a concerning problem for people, especially children. Spending more than 5 hours a day in front of a screen is extremely worse as they should have less time to associate with other people. Let’s say they study ten hours a day and then instead of hanging out with their friends, they rush back home to play video games until bedtime and this loop continues every day. They just lost their precious chance to enjoy their childhood with their friends as they value video games higher than socialization.
