Game addiction: play, but do not flirt!

In our life, when slot machines are everywhere on all major streets, the computer industry is constantly expanding its production, and the Internet network is densely populated in each apartment, specialists began to allocate a completely new disease called "game addiction." Some argue that this is just a fiction of doctors who want to make money on ordinary citizens. And here not! Gambling addiction is gaining momentum every day and psychologists are already sounding alarm about the threat to youth and adolescents.

Course of the disease

The disease itself, according to experts, begins inoffensive and imperceptible. The patient can spend one evening a week for gambling (necessarily for money) in the company of his friends. At first, control over the amounts and time spent goes seriously. This is the so-called hidden period. Then, with the arrival of a sufficiently large win, the control is lost, and then an impulsive, constant attraction to the process follows. Even if a person wins, he on the same night can lower the entire "earned" amount. And this happens every day. Often, money is borrowed, some even manage to take out loans at a bank institution. After a while, the patient develops secrecy, a tendency to deceive, and a loss of previous interests. So gradually develops a game addiction.

Causes

Experts argue that the category of citizens who are initially prone to drug addiction or alcoholism, most likely, will become a hostage and this type of dependence. Initially, as a rule, the desire to visit a casino is conditioned by the need or the desire to win some amount of money. However, as the disease develops, the desire to enrich your wallet goes to the background. Psychologists are sure that during the next game a person conditional falls into a trance and does not notice anyone next to him. Of course, such a problem is provoked by the casino itself. So, we all know that in a gambling house, as a rule, a favorable atmosphere is created: quiet music, beautiful interior, snacks and alcohol, helpful personnel treatment, etc. Pathological excitement, and with it play dependence, are formed on three levels:

• Psychological (the desire to win a large sum);
• Reflex (usual habit)
• Neurophysiological (trance state).

Game dependence. Treatment

For those who decided to permanently end this disease for sure, the specialists developed a number of techniques that, if the patient desires, really work. During such treatment, the patient slowly learns to constantly monitor the existing game impulse, and then completely suppress it. Of course, computer game addiction, in particular among teenagers and schoolchildren, is sometimes treated very simply: parents take the computer. However, often children begin to visit special clubs, where they can surrender to their addiction, disappear from their peers. Then the parents begin to realize that this method is not an option. The best solution in any case is the qualified help of a psychologist.