A Guide for Parents on How to Prevent Excess Screen Time & Online Gaming Addiction Among Children and Adolescents
There are different things to which one can have chances of getting addicted to such as Cigarettes Nicotine Alcohol Cannabis Sedatives/sleeping pills Pain killers Illegal drugs Gambling including Online Gambling Gaming (Online/Video/Digital/Application based games) Shopping including Online Shopping Eating Exercise etc. Addictions caused by substance abuse, gaming and gambling are one among the most common mental health disorders as per proven studies. Addiction affects people's thinking, judgement, emotions and behavior. In Latin, the word addiction means ''bound to /enslaved by''. Surprisingly, addictions due to gaming is the mental health disorder with the highest odds of recovery. Gaming Disorder can be defined as a behavior in which there is less or no control over gaming such that the priority gi...