Video games serve as a mechanism for coping with stress, says psychologist

Dr. Bean said that increased nervousness, mood change and difficulty in adapting to other areas of life are listed as the main symptoms of addiction to video games.

When asked how this addiction differs between men and women and which parts of society are more sensitive to this addiction, he said that men are more likely to play video games than women.

“They tend to feel more pleasant, but some women have the ability to be more successful player in video-play”, he noted, “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.

Anthony Bean mentioned the importance of understanding when this really becomes a problem, an addiction, and not a passage of time.

It is really hard to identify who is dependent and who is not. There are people there who play eight to 10 hours a day and have a very wealthy family”, he said.

Many of the people who visit our clinic have shown that they have mixed anxiety and depression in terms of the games, where people use it as a affordable mechanism and not a drug of”.

“We try to balance the different skills people have, showing them how to use the limited resources they have to overcome the obstacles [they face as they play],” he explained.

We've seen some people playing for an hour and a half, getting frustrated and stop, some people could play for two hours, really depend on the degree of tolerance and exit from the virtual world and understand themselves better “, he concludes.

Health experts warn that game disorders could result in serious problems due to poor sleep, reduced physical activity and exposure to sunlight./Periscopi/