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on al-jazeera. more and more young people are addicted to online video games. in a controversial decision last year the world health organization classified it as a disease. it defines gaming disorder as quote impaired control over gaming increasing priority given to gaming over other activities and could to ation or escalation of gaming this by negative consequences. though is spreading all over the world and only affects a small number of people who play video games one of the 1st countries dealing with the disorder has been japan to better understand the symptoms of the disorder we

traveled there and met 2 young boys died too and susumu who are spending several hours a day online. we also met with titus parents to see how his behavior is affecting his family. but is there a way to treat this is ease we asked dr seuss to will he who works at the 1st clinic in japan devoted to gaming disorder. title kobayashi lives outside talk you we asked him to describe a typical day in his life. how does that kind of congealed what i did. today as a. group stage did. it for me this is your day to has shown no sign of you to. not they take

a listen to this is great because this is still. that's a bit of a step. mark but. margins are going well you don't have a rock sound you're going to come up. with the water or instead of saying i'm going to clone your game so that $100.00. to. just talk. with people still. come up with that they need to look at. the start of it to the emotional but i hope you know because i see. so you know going to the park with your friends to get pulled the mother to. do. this you know. good thing and it's. all. right just parents have been increasingly concerned about their son and decided to

visit the clinic in search of help what in his behavior makes you think that he could be addicted. day to heat that. much data. they. want kids i mean did you get on the way to playing the snow day for the night. when you do know don't most of the pain you know from the god people being to go to. what i don't have pushed their money that they could have. through being too sneaky most ok when you say his priorities change before starting to game now what did he was he more friendly that he liked to go out what changed exactly.

couldn't with this guy. look at the ski generates the being. not i got the money but i missed. out on ideas so do you buy them accordingly the more you hear. it. the. homework this is a pretty. good. but do we know what. more could someone that. we're thinking of. games are a lot of pictures a lot of sounds did you notice that it's affecting his character i see. i didn't know most you do your no. one who you know that must have.

seen it. to no more number 100. 30. 2 the killed more talk of the skid row. and more dr. this could open it up to no need of a tongue for. the more and some of. a. need to call you know capitalists when you went to that session did you come out thinking that your son is a game addict. no more. keep it here today about here so when you're in will be a more you say through so. much school make the game when you see type. get out it might do me. a huge you're not out about

his uni. i could immediately come out of that poem we must at this point tell us more about his gaming behavior and respond to his parents concerns. known they want to know. and the thing. is. they are people. you see. a computer. more telescope a bit. more. posting you move only. to the other thank you well along.

don't you prefer playing outside i mean doesn't you have friends. and it. doesn't work. so that may not concern you. so. it's. you know it's going to or you may. go. there was. so little so. i was. just so. do you think you're playing too much one last question do you think you're playing too much. just not the amulet on one and i don't think. they were do you think about this conversation. here.

but nor. could i. go to. my. you're not going to. the keyboard over there. he said but i did to this. day that you. don't hate me because you know. so that they can take. me if i don't do.

the east force cafe in jew cool has 2 to 300 visitors a day on weekends even more come here to play. an average day say 3 hours but some are here for 24 hours. so sue me gucci is a doctor degree how much addiction center the 1st clinic of its kind in japan. he tells us about some of the problems he has seen firsthand among young people addicted to video games the 1st thing i have to point out is the brain damage the in the past you know there are several papers reporting the. brain damage caused by you know gaming disorder and meaning the neuron our cells.

were destroyed or damaged. you know gaming and this is the problem here most important the significant findings but at the same time you know they are usually isolated from the the in the stay at home for a long time and because of the you know some of them suffer from you know problems associated with in activity. such as you know the low you know body things and low bone density. then you do not eat regularly just 11 time in a day you know because you know they cannot eat they get they have to participate in the online games and they cannot find the time to eat something you know and the because of that they know the day sometime with lose their weight and suffer from

malnutrition and so those kind of things if i try a school a school boy spends. they. likely stew to 3 hours the computer if not more gaming. and that number of hours could go all the way up to 16. on his days off we do consider that child an addict this is called tolerance you know when we start to play games you know they are satisfied with playing only 2 of us but in the course of time you know they cannot be satisfied with just you know play for 2 hours or so then they have to increase the number of games. and this is part of the this is the part of the cyst symptoms which is typical of addiction we cannot in a say whether he is addicted to gaming or not by just looking at number

was. games would you say that it is a source of concern and needs to be monitored because if at 12 years old. he or she prefers to stay at home not go out and have very little social life and play that it could develop into something much more severe in a few years or do you think it's just maybe. that age when you turn from child to pre-birth t. and you know every boy or girl or trouble that if we diagnose you make a diagnosis of a game we disorder the patient needs to show at least pretty fundamental or or can't characteristic symptoms you know one is loss of control i think you know

if we play 16 hours you know you may say you may think that he loses you know control over gaming and the 2nd these the gaming is prioritize prioritize in life of course you know if you ask him what is the most important thing for you in in your life he he will respond to you gaming gaming 1st and then this 3rd the 3rd or you know symptom is the you know to continue in cleese the gaming be here despite the veto by the problem he has there's another credit which is. because of gaming he suffers from severe functional impairment in school. and in the family and life so you've met many of such patients. behind that is there

a deeper issue i mean sometimes from what i understand when you speak to drug addicts or alcoholics it is a way to to now maybe some deeper and deeper separates do you think gaming is the same thing or gaming is actually much more superficial as an addiction nearly hooty pretty percent of. patients with gaming to sort of are either genea were senior high school students in the ratio. or boys 2 girls is usually a truce to one or something and so they have a little limited experience you know in life so they usually do not have the deeper you know background you know why they become you know addicted to gaming and then when we see patient with gaming in this or the home or wait with other mental

disorders such as a d h d and asparagus in the room we need to take care of not only gaming disorder but also you know other mental health disorders what is the success rate to get someone out of this addiction and how long is that process very good question. we have not conducted you know outcome study so again to tell me any i could at the you know estimation but. when we see a patient with a gaming disorder we strong re re commend him or her to give up play games anymore if they agree to do that the usually their outcome is quite good but if they do not want to stop gaming completely and they want if they want to reduce the amount of hours on games

the outcome isn't this a good it isn't typically the problem of addiction whether it's alcohol drugs or now gaming is that you tell a person you need to stop and he's mentally maybe they know but they're not able to isn't that one of the core issues yes that's right but in the case of gambling or in the case of our core dependency the majority of patients are told they can't understand the situation they are put in and they need they can understand why they have to stop drinking and stop in gambling and so forth but in the case of. schoolboy girls they cannot understand that if we push too much they were drop out from a treatment so this is the very big issue for us. and. we

we have to think about the balance between you know how do we push at the same that we need to you know avoid that patient you know. from. looking at us she will rise started gaming when he was in kindergarten he has effectively played his entire life and he sometimes can't find time to do anything else then member to your normal day how does it look like mom. he do sinjar today so. it's a good possible people still game a lot so you know so you know. juniors you planted it in the mother needed and you play every day a little bit must listen another coup on a disc you do mine it's. my duty to do up at least

a month ok so what would be dished shortest amount. you play and what would be the longest musical sons of the world who took you know what i call when i worked. he's used to conduct our sort of race just sitting that desk for 20 hours. they get all moneys you can adjust it out you could you can sons of god so you just move to go to the bathroom or maybe to get a glass of water mussel isn't there and you do anything else do you work to do a study do you do anything else you will to us tonight do you think this amount of time you spend gaming is good for you or you could do what he did so the odds are wounded and i don't want also known. as you can go most honorable so. again where you took this it was as you can that i was and that i couldn't

manage and i cannot them when you feel happy. and what exactly do you like about the games. so you need to know that my union i don't. know we did or did i not done that then the calm of the storm he shows. up then with us do you think that because of all this time you spend gaming you are missing out on other things in life. so you don't think that sometimes instead of playing you should be out with your friends being in the fresh air you should maybe be travelling you prefer to stay here and. most of this meeting of us kunal the party you need to. come in you couldn't and i cannot them being in there and what did your parents say. about it and your girlfriend

well you all between them with that she doesn't prefer to go out with you she likes to wait for you here while you're playing. think you are more so no game way at the end of statistics medically doctors say that people who play as much as you do are somehow addicted do you feel that you are addicted. so or more today. you don't think that all of this could be negative for you. and tonight you can it's capable. of causing the data to. go. to set up the. need to seduce to. know that i don't play if you were to tell me. or tried to convince me to start gaming this scribe to me was it is. any

day you could talk about tobias and buddies and. my studio or most of the new york you're going to go there so have a buddy to look out. the. door do it in when you see. them less you know about the god in the game and i got there and i got so as you speak a book or scuse me when i spend 3 hours in front of a computer my eyes hurt my head is like this flashing you don't get that. it's what's getting so i'm coming around i go many times that he needs to go that's also getting there what are you if you were to give advice to someone young who also loves gaming what would you say game place or box. i mean i don't know. but being cuticle is

a county so the most in that book as he says where there tomorrow it will. all stand there so no more fun or what he did there being your being close game a game where it's. loneliness. it's got more to the higher good. so game of those you think you need this but the challenges they're facing writers parents are hopeful they will be able to work with their son to make sure he can live a normal life reader to give you a myth. mood. because. every belief in god could bring to the team to do it again with sort of a new script of it but to give him up we're made out of a.b.c. and you were telling me earlier that you were concerned that he was changing a bit he was maybe slightly more aggressive. in. his own.

kind i guess. but. you're also going to give me a mass i wanted to hold into and i hope. it's not in the. book so. if i say that topical. not going to say that. just looking ahead what do you feel that. you have the power to change things you know how to change things. must. pass. because. that was common. to most all of us who are not it put in

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