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Teens and video game addiction

There are other addictions then just drugs and alcohol. There’s also video game addiction. The people that are most addicted are teenage boys and young adults. They spend hours at a time gaming and sometimes even putting off showering and sleep to game. Parents that are concerned about their kids and how much they game they try to take the game away, but then the gamer acts differently since they are going through withdraw. Kimberly Young from CBS News says, “There are severe withdrawal symptoms in game addicts. "They become angry, violent, or depressed. If [parents] take away the computer, their child sits in the corner and cries, refuses to eat, sleep, or do anything.” Gamers spend so much time playing games and not talking to anyone that a twenty one year old boy can be mentally 12 years old and not know how to talk to girls or learn to play sports. Those that don’t play games for a couple hours at a time usually find themselves playing again. Gamers that play hours at a time without stopping and don’t do anything other then game are considered addicted.

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