Your Videogame Is My Drug

Videogames are our cure of boredom. They allow us to escape our stressful lives, or they bring people together at a party. Can such a positive thing be so negative in our lives? Society has blamed videogames for some of today’s issues like violence. Videogames are not as harmful as some might think; they are actually beneficial to people of all ages. Have you learned something useful from a videogame? Have you had a bad experience with one? People experience positive and negatives things. People can use videogames as an escape from reality, an escape from their personal issues. Some extreme cases have become so dependent on the escape that they bring components of the videogame world into their daily lives. Dreams become themed, daily objects become visual cues; everything gets related to the fictional world. These people become addicted to this form of escapism. One might ask who this might happen to; the answer to this is anyone. Everyone has issues that they want to escape from. Is this a healthy way of dealing with things? Is it not better than physically hurting someone else or yourself? There is a limit to how immersed you can get, when a person starts to bring the game into reality it a sign of addiction. Weight gain or losses and sleep deprivation are also symptoms of videogame addiction. People play videogames to escape from reality, to fulfill social needs, or to collect all the achievements within games. Do you play videogames? Today the selection of videogames is very diverse that anyone can find a game they like playing. What is your reason for playing?

For more information check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction

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