Internet is everything we’ve today, especially since Covid-19 has evolved, work, gatherings, events, entertainment everything is through the internet only. In this course, something is stupifying the minds of people hysterically, gaming being one of them.

Solitary confinement of adolescents due to environmental conditions can be labelled as one of the reasons for gaming addiction. Still, it has been recorded that gaming addiction is one of the biggest reasons behind students’, youth’s voluntary confinement. For every 5-25 years, Gaming is no longer a pass-time activity but a sense of emotion. Over the past two decades, it has hypnotized adolescents with its technological power.

Why virtual gaming is best?

Countries like Italy, Taiwan, China, Czech, Netherlands, Pakistan have been experiencing extreme gaming addiction among the youth over the past years. More than 10% of China’s population is devoted to gaming, and 90% of America’s population practices gaming, out of which 15% are obsessed with it. This problem got so serious that a detox gaming center has to be put in action in the Netherlands, on which Keith Bakkar (Director of Smith and Jones) quoted that “Virtualgames may appear innocuous, but its addiction potential isconsistent to gambling, and gambling.”

Yee in 2006 proposed that diehard gaming fans are more between the age of 12-18 who are diagnosed with problems of emotional imbalance and skepticism.These youngsters show greater affinity towards the gaming aspects, as they try to explore phases of their personality through engaging characters in games. The fiction world fantasies them more than the bumpy real world.

In 2005 a South Korean man, succumbed to gaming addiction; according to the report, he renderedthe game called StarCraft for non-stop 50 hours at an Internet Café, with minimal food and sleep.And this wasn’t the end of all several incidents of demise that was noticed every 6 months due to unusual obsession.

Gaming is one unregulated form of activity, which can originate unprecedented repercussions. Because it is unprocessed, its addiction forces individuals to compromise sleep, food, social contact, physical contact, etc. The spell of gaming begins from minutes, then goes to few hours and finally ends up with a minimum of 12 hours for a single session. All of this ceases human physical, mental and social development. Many of them develop this detrimental feeling of excelling in the gaming world to reach the stage of misdeed and self-harm.