Its not a malignant kind of “addiction”. What, do you want big pharma to give you a “cure”
“if your kid is addicted to video games, try our new drug, it’ll knock the controller right out of their hands and send their soul to school forever, or for adults, it’ll send their soul to work forever".
Never claimed that should be “fixed” with drugs.
It needs help from real friends, not people that’s waiting for the person that has the issue to message them… I will say that some addicts just don’t want to be saved no matter how much friends can help them.
Hypnosis!
Or that thing they (claim) to do to smokers where it makes them sick to smoke
Could work, I know some medications make it so I can’t play my games for awhile. Because it makes me dizzy when I try. Seems to be worse if the game has any sort of platforming type thing going on where you have to climb up high and jump a lot.
I think some people can become reliant on games to help them escape reality that it is possible to escape it too much and it can have negative effects on their lives.
I always have a problem since i was very little… I am not sure if it’s mental but I daydream almost none stop and can completely disconnect for hours pacing and daydreaming. It is almost like an addiction where I can’t help it, it’s all I want to do. I do it even if my ankles and legs are hurting bad from doing it too much. I’ve spent a lot of time doing that, and sometimes I cry because I know it’s taking away from family life but in another way it’s not the worst thing I could be doing. Wow actually helps me control that urge, I sit on my butt and play. My mind calms and I feel better so it’s nice.
I can completely relate to people who say that it’s an “addiction” though if it’s anything like my daydreaming. I actually found a website where other people have the same thing. I fell over into a ball and felt so relieved I wasn’t the only one lol.
I think we should stop looking at the symptoms and start looking at the root cause. Why does society suck so much that people want to escape it?
I can’t answer that without taking a forum vacation sadly.
But let me just say lack of empathy for a start, lack of real friendship.
We can’t do that, that’d be enabling the addiction because you will just be enforcing their excuse of how crappy society is. You can’t confirm that the thing they are trying to escape is real.
I think wow addicts are not the same rly because of one major reason, WoW has been going for so long, if they go to another game they ll have to start from 0, they wont have a million achievements, a million mounts and mogs etc
People who have spend a lot of time in wow, some at least are invested and their value comes from all the stuff they have in wow so throwing away all that is incredibly hard for them, you cant rly get this in most games because most games arent as long and dont give as many rewards throughout the years like WoW to make people feel as invested
we are talking about a 16 year old game here with 16 years of rewards.
These two things are not mutually exclusive. Often that’s how people conventionally understand well-known addictions. I already mentioned how this is a bigger deal in Asia, so It’s worth noting that it probably correlates to their stressful work cultures and social atomization.
Honestly? I think it’s only a matter of time before this starts rising in the West as well… Social atomization is already a problem here. Healthy social values like family(finding long-term partners) and community… But that’s a whole other can of worms.
Now I understand, you are in that group. OF course you think gaming addiction is real.
You are partially correct. People should be more friendly and kinder to each other in general. But that’s not the only thing, more easily accessible upward mobility in society would sharply reduce both addictions of all kinds and crime of all kinds.
As in, people finding long-term partners and communities. Not talking about Christian fundamentalist values. lmao
Which is great, more and more people realize blood family means nothing and instead create their own family, oftentimes poly that will be far better and healthier than blood families
The old world is thankfully dying
I see, I apologize. More often then not that exact phrase is used as a negative. Usually helps a person find the disinfectant supporter though.
I saw it as soon as I sent it, no worries. It was my mistake as well
Whatever floats your boat. However, I doubt the “old world” will ever fully die, many people will still strongly prefer monogamous type relations and core family.
Yeah, I don’t think I’m ready for monogamy to die. I tried a throuple once. Just because I wanted a relationship to work out so I went ahead and compromised. It just didn’t feel good. I don’t understand how anyone can like that. Too much jealousy.
I wont put down people who compromise in that way, but if you’re not able to completely let go of jealousy and deal with constant competition, then poly lifestyle is not for you. I’d never do it.
It’s not really about blood family, as I corrected myself to another already. This is kind of a loaded topic, but generally it pertains to how people in the developed world are gradually struggling to settle down, and how this correlates with things like reliance on social safety net programs and depression, among so many other things. I used to thing these things weren’t a big deal, and that society was simply changing, but I’ve since changed my mind on the subject after some research.
I recommend the video essays by Political Juice called ‘The Importance of Civil Society’ on YouTube. They’re not oriented towards the Left or Right in any way, as a disclaimer.