Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/26AoT6Vo7Oc   Ninety percent of video gamers are not addicted to the sport.  This conclusion stems from a Brigham Young University study of 385 teens over a 6 year period.   Those who were obsessed with gaming, pursing the sport to the detriment of healthy functioning, had a definite profile.  The vidicts I’ll call them tended to be male with higher than average levels of depression, aggression, and shyness.  Their obsessive behavior spilled over into cell phone use.   Is there light at the end of adolescence?  Yes!  Once in their twenties, almost all he pathological video gamers tended to be self-supporting and not living in their parents’ basements.   https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdev0000939 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200513143803.htm   #videogaming #addiction #adolescence