Lack Of Awareness In Gaming Addiction
A recent study had shown that Singaporeans from 18 years and above would spend an average of more than 7 hours a week on gaming.
Gaming has become a way to cope with stress and work but it slowly becomes an addiction for these Singaporean gamers.
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Many may skip meals and reduce their sleeping time to play online games.
They are unable to control their strong desire for gaming leading to addiction without realizing this truth.
In my past articles, I had mentioned that gaming does have benefits to our brain development and alertness if it is not excessive.
Excessive gaming habits can have negative effects to the psychological development of addicted gamers.
The need to have the awareness of addiction and reduce gaming time would enable one to avoid addiction.
While I agree with there being a gaming addiction and the downsides of such illness... I wouldn't consider 7 hours a week of gaming as a gaming addiction. That's an hour a day, which is totally acceptable.
There are those who literally live and breathe gaming, don't sleep, don't eat, don't socialise, can barely go to the toilet properly in their lust to get back to the game, and many have died or have had their children die because of their obsession... but, that's a fair chunk longer than a mere 7 hours per week.
I probably average about 24 hours a week myself. :D But I still manage to cook, clean, be creative, study, look after my family and home, go out and about, have friends, experience life...
Thank you for your valuable comment! You are absolutely right about 7 hours a week of gaming not being too much as the news was probably calculating the majority youths nowadays. There were extreme cases where some play more than 12 hours a day like the extreme examples that you had mentioned. You definitely have a good control over your gaming so gaming can help you to be more alert as well as fast reactions when it is not excessive. There are benefits when it is not excessive.