The Impact of Video Game Usage on Physical and Mental Health

Introduction

Video Game usage is bad for your health. One of the major reasons it’s bad for you is health problems. It can cause problems to the eyes. Also, it can give you cataracts which means there’s a blind spot in your eye. It reduces your physical activity rate, which can have a major impact on your body. Video Games can ruin your life in many ways. They can give you anger issues; they can make your life harder on you because you constantly want to play them when you have another thing to do in life. They can take up to much of your time and make time fly by without even knowing. It can ruin your career.

Health Implications of Video Game Usage

More than 150 million Americans play video games, which make their life harder on them, and 64% of Americans households are home to at least one person who plays video games regularly. There are also very bad games that people play, and it can give them the wrong idea, especially kids at a younger age playing certain games with guns, robbery, and other types of crimes. People who play games most of the time in the day are called “GAMERS,” and they usually play for 6 hours a day. Gamers have spent over 23 billion in the last couple of years on games and game content. Also, certain games have a game chat which means if you have a mic, you can talk to other people, and they be very rude, which is called cyberbullying. They can make you very depressed and feel self-contention about yourself even though they can’t see you.

Violent Video games have been responsible for school shootings and increased bullying. When someone says they’re bad at a certain game, they might retaliate. Also, if gamers get mad at a game, they might take out the anger on other people. Lots of bad people play video games like first-person shooter games in VR to practice with guns. From 1995-2008, video game sales more than quadrupled, but juvenile violent crimes fell 49.3%. In a number of games, even those aimed at children, there is often a degree of sexualization that is shown throughout. If allowed to play for long periods of time, some children can find it hard to differentiate between video games and reality. The greatest drawback is the risk of addiction. While these games do increase cognitive powers, they tend to make children neglect their studies and keep them from eating properly and getting enough exercise.

Conclusion

Certain studies have shown that most violence-packed games tend to induce violent behavior in kids, as they somehow become blind to the difference between real life and games on TV/computers. Such kids fail to understand that reality and the situations presented in video games do not go along. At one point, the addiction to such games becomes so intense that people start neglecting the importance of social life. They begin to isolate themselves from the company of other people and become increasingly involved in these games.

References

1. “Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen Time” by Victoria L. Dunckley
2. “Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids – and How to Break the Trance” by Nicholas Kardaras