How Video Games addiction affect lives?

"I would not inflict this game upon anyone" was the testimony of a gamer codenamed Don, friend of mine, as he looked into the camera, his left cheek illuminated, offscreen, by a computer monitor. He was speaking about League of Legends or LoL for short and later after I asked him, he'd reveal why: 6 hours a day on a computer screen, sometimes more.

He had no money, no school no family, he gave everything but, it gave nothing back. But this story is not unusual. Even me is addicted to video games but there are worse than this, some literally lose their lives. Like for example back in 2005, a gamer in South Korea died after a reported 50 hour video game session, and in 2012 a Taiwanese gamer discovered dead in his computer still holding his computer even in the middle of fatal cardiac arrest. No, you wouldn't wish that to your self or anyone else.

         

Video game addiction exists. It has all the features you need to classify an addiction: losing jobs and loved ones; withdrawal symptoms like cold sweats and anger; developing migraines and back problems and, very occasionally, death. And it's occurring around the globe, but especially in America, the UK, and parts of Asia (China, Korea, and Japan).

 

But you might wonder, Why is Video games addictive? The largest reported factor found in the study, was escapism. Many people in the study reported that they enjoyed games because games took them out of the real world. These same people were the most likely to develop addiction-like symptoms. Why be a landscape architect when you could be an invincible mage? Or, feeling doomed to unpopularity in real-life, why not join a guild online? This isn't the first study to find the relationship between video games and escapism: A study in 2009 found 41 percent of its participants said they played to escape the real world.

There is no "typical" gaming addict. Lurking on various online fora, I encountered Scott, 41-year-old former alcoholic whose gateway game was online gambling. From there, he obsessively played strategy and puzzle games until, after relapsing multiple times and separating from his wife, he found an online 12-step group for dependent gamers. On Reddit, I met a 21-year-old who listed 27 console games and hundreds of flash games he played obsessively. He recently "sobered up" at a rehabilitating boarding school and stays clean with an online support group devoted to game abusers.