A quick look at addiction and video game addiction

1. VIDEO GAME ADDICTION
A BRIEF SNAPSHOT

2. FIRST - ADDICTION
• From the Latin addiction – enslaved/bound to
• Addiction is multi-dimensional – this is how it plays out with
substances
• http://www.odyssey.org.nz/our-services/youth/tools/ (the octopus)
• How might it play out with:
• Video games
• Eating
• Exercise
• Shopping
• Sex

3. FIRST - ADDICTION
• Engaging in something that gives immediate pleasure/relief at a level
of compulsion so that it interferes with regular activities
• The ‘crave’
• Biological
• Tolerance
• Reacting to cues – the ‘extra’ pull
• Psychological
• Stress relief

4. THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G93lz-JK-E

5. http://www.netaddiction.co.nz/whatisaddiction.html

6. http://www.netaddiction.co.nz/whatisaddiction.html

7. http://www.netaddiction.co.nz/whatisaddiction.html

8. SO SUBSTANCES CAN TRIGGER OUR
PLEASURE CENTRE, HOW CAN
BEHAVIOURS DO THIS???
ESPECIALLY IN ADOLESCENCE

9. SO LET’S GET DEEP – GET ON YOUR DEVICE
AND TAKE THE TEST
• https://www.netaddictionrecovery.com/the-problem/signs-
and-symptoms.html
• https://www.netaddictionrecovery.com/the-problem/internet-
addiction/147-compulsive-internet-use-scale-cius.html
• (this will be on our course Facebook and on Moodle; we will use
printouts in class)

10. THE RESEARCH
• Allan Reiss and colleagues found that the co-ordination regions
of the brain were activated but also the pressure centre is
activated in all participants (slightly higher for males)
• These results have been duplicated (repeated) across many
studies
• But, is it real, if some people can quit without intervention?

11. THE EFFECTS
• RSI effects – back, hands,
fingers, eyes, etc
• Photosenstive epileptic seizures
• Obesity
• Sleep disorders
• Social effects – family/friends
• Education effects
• Sleep disorders
• Musculokelatal disorders (MSD)
• Studded development at a
neuropsychological level
(frontal-cortex)

12. Now, your turn, how
does this look
within an MD
Approach (Harms,
2010)?
Remember the inner
world – spiritual,
Psychological, and
physical?
Remember the MD
approach covers all
theories.

13. SEEING IT IN ACTION
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R83287N6kFg&spfreload=
10
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-5sm_Iqts&t=3s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOSYmLER664

14. KEY RESOURCE FOR PRACTITIONERS
• https://www.netaddictionrecovery.com/
• http://www.netaddiction.co.nz/index.html