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  1. Apr 2023
    1. Then, once they became what he terms pathological gamers, their grades were more likely to drop, and their relationships with their parents deteriorated.

      This is because they are fixated on their games. Their mind only thinks about gaming. People and reality don't matter when in a game you can do whatever you want.

    2. Two years later, these heavy gamers, who played an average of 31 hours a week, compared with 19 hours a week for other students, were more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and social phobias. They were also more likely to see their grades in school drop and have worse relationships with their parents.

      This mean they would know what to do with themself if internet crashed or we lost power world wide. They would lose the one thing they have fully invested themself into. They would be come more depressed because of social anxiety.

    3. Those who used the Internet excessively were more than twice as likely as the others to be depressed nine months later

      The internet has good and bad to it. I feel like you can gain information but spend to much time and you waste time way and that along is reason to feel depressed.