It’s very difficult to define, especially with the current knowledge available of what it really is. Let’s conceptualize a gaming addiction or video addiction as being balanced on five fingers. One of these fingers stands for having friendships, one of these fingers stands for going to school, one of these fingers stands for video playing, one of these fingers stands for having other ways of making yourself feel good such as being on a ball team or something like that. During the course of an addiction you’re going to see that when someone is addicted, they’re standing on one finger, but that one finger doesn’t happen suddenly. Addiction is the eating away or the unwinding of other support mechanisms to keep one healthy and functioning. An addict, generally, has only one finger to stand on to make themselves feel good. So what we’re talking about with these kids is to keep an eye on their lifestyle balance, keep an eye on their ability to have a variety of different ways to make themselves feel good, a skill set for a variety of different domains, not a singular domain. It’s all about balance and keeping that perspective. Nothing’s wrong with videos, nothing’s wrong with gaming, nothing’s wrong with anything we’ve really talked about here, it’s just the centrality of it, the exclusion of it to everything else, that i’m concerned with and everybody else should be concerned with. For more information visit www.habitdoc.com Video Rating: 5 / 5