Not everyone is aware of the fact that, video gaming addiction is a mental health condition which is currently affecting lots of lives around the world.

As paraphrased from the World Health Organization which recognizes video gaming addiction, it is defined as a pattern of incessant and continuous gaming behavior which takes place either offline or online.

This continuous gaming behavior is characterized by worsened control over gaming, which makes the individual to place more premium on video games, rather than also pay ample attention to other important aspects of their lives.

Around the world, billions of place play video games, but not everyone is addicted. The difference between video gaming addiction and a healthy fun gaming is the detrimental activity which it has in the life of a person.

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The fundamental reason why video games were created, was to keep all players invested. Video games were produced with the integration of top-notch behavioral psychology which ensures you are hooked, thereby making you spend lots of hours on gameplay.

Video games provide a form of engrossing experience, that makes your brain to secrete dopamine, which is known as the pleasure hormone.

If you are always exposed to dopamine production, it becomes too much, and this can result in some structural modifications in your brain. Therefore, you begin to reside in a world where you anticipate prompt gratification for a good performance.

Video games are so captivating, that you can play for long hours on end without realizing that lots of hours have gone by. Video games prevent you from making ample progress.

They are social in nature, and they provide an environment where there is a falsehood of safety, and you feel you are in charge.

It is very easy to spot someone who is addicted to video games. First off, the individual would always be preoccupied with video games. They would always think about the past gaming activity, and they would look forward to the next.

In addition to this, they would also lose interest in other activities; their relationship with family and friends becomes strained because they have devoted their time to something else.

Overtime, gaming addiction has proved to be a very real problem for quite a number of people. It is sometimes classified as a disorder which poses a negative impact on people. Although, indicators that one is addicted, might be difficult to recognize. Gaming addiction can be as challenging as other severe addictions such as gambling.

There are several adverse effects that comes with gaming addiction. Firstly, the most regular one is reduced performance in work or school. Staying long hours playing video games can negatively affect the performance of a person. There would be failure to work to an optimum and desirable level due to exhaustion or tiredness, from staying up over the night playing a video game. If a child or young one devotes too much time playing video games, issues such as insomnia could set in and also difficulty in paying rapt attention in class.

Also, there is a tendency for a person addicted to games to be psychologically affected. There are video games that display violent acts and scenes, and this may cause players to be insensitive to the act of violence. This has a negative impact on the players and may cause them to start developing and nursing aggressive and hostile thoughts and inclinations. In some rare cases, they become a nuisance and trouble to the society.

There are risks of encountering health problems when one gets too addicted playing games. If all the time a person has is spent on playing game and as a result misses meals or lose considerable amount of rest or sleep, there is a high tendency for such a person to encounter severe health problems. Gaming addiction can lead to medical and health issues such as backache, eye pain, headaches, mental health issues and also a feeling of numbness on the wrists or hands and shoulder due to staying long hours at a particular position or spot, playing games.

Keeping close relationships with friends and family may be on the line if all the time is spent on playing games, rather than interacting or relating with loved ones. Addiction to gaming adversely affects a person such that all he or she would be interested in discussing about, is the subject matter of the video game and nothing else. Arguments and unhelpful conversations would be prevalent.

Therefore, addiction to a video game would be harmful if the individual decides to neglect other activities and engagements, and focus entirely on just playing game. Abandoning other responsibilities that does not relate to playing of video games might have terrible consequences.