Even though playing video games is a hobby itself, if it refrains you from doing anything else, it will cost your child their social skills. If your child abandons their hobbies for video games as well, this is bad. It is seen as an addiction if instead of your child being happy outside or spending time with their family, they instead are moody and are thinking of their next video game session, and devising a way to get back to their beloved consul. An example of this is if your child refuses to participate in any other activities or doesn’t want to so any extracurricular activities. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified the critical symptoms as: “impaired control over gaming (frequency, intensity, duration), increased priority given to gaming or continuation or escalation of gaming.” This, however, will not stop parents from worrying about their child’s mental health even though they may not have any of these symptoms.Īs for harmful effects, we will start with that it could make your child’s social skills worse. When parents read the adverse effects of video games, it naturally must have made parents even more anxious than before on video games. This is another reason why I want to write this article so that I can try and help parents understand why video games can improve people’s mental health. When I saw the article talking about this, it made me upset at first as I couldn’t where they are coming from at all. The NHS is now calling some gaming enthusiasm an addiction and a disorder. The amount of how many people game and how much they spend keeps on rising by a lot every year, it is expected that in 2020, the video game market is going to be worth 95 billion dollars. This tells us how much people love or in some cases need gaming in their lives. This amount is an incredible number of people, and this even surprised me. 2.5 billion people claim to be gamers all over the world. It started as something so small and hardly any detail at all to amazing graphics that almost look like the game is real with hundreds of hours of gameplay per game. Gaming is something that has become massively popular over the years, with many different people of many different ages wanting to play. This is why I want to write this article about the effects gaming has on teenager’s mental health. However, I disagree with this as video games personally made my mental health better. I can understand where they are coming from. There are a lot of parents all over the world who don’t like their child (specifically teenage child) to play video games as they think that games affect their child’s mental health in a wrong way. Some parents might ignore the fact that their child is spending an unhealthy amount of time playing video games, while others might be worrying too much. Since there is so much negativity about video games nowadays, parents find themselves scared and confused about what could happen to their child if they start or if they are already playing video games. I will not be discussing games with guns as that has been an ongoing topic for years and in my personal opinion, it is not the main cause of children having mental health problems due to video games. This is where my article comes in, hoping to help out concerned parents who are worried about their child playing/wanting to play video games.

And I’m looking forward to all the new exciting things that gaming will have to offer in the future. For example, you might think “Why would they spend so much time and interest on a screen instead of going outside like I used to?” As a video game lover, it is incredible to see how far gaming has advanced over the years. Has your child aid that they wanted to show you a dance move and started doing something they call the floss? Has your child rejected your dinner invitation because of online games? Then maybe your child is a gaming addict!Īll jokes aside, the majority of parents do not know or understand much of video games.

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