Two common mental disorders that come along with gaming addiction are : Anger management and Low-self esteem however in some cases, becoming egoistic is another effect.
*Anger management*
- Players become to throw tantrums every now and then whenever something would
go wrong within a game or if anything interferes with their gaming.
*Egoistic/Low-self Esteem*
- Players begin to become overconfident/arrogant even in their actual lives as
they feel they have accomplished something great within a virtual world.
Players begin to become depressed over an unfortunate event that happens in
a game.
*Anger management*
- Players become to throw tantrums every now and then whenever something would
go wrong within a game or if anything interferes with their gaming.
*Egoistic/Low-self Esteem*
- Players begin to become overconfident/arrogant even in their actual lives as
they feel they have accomplished something great within a virtual world.
Players begin to become depressed over an unfortunate event that happens in
a game.
_There are cases where gaming addiction is taken to another level. It could threaten
other people's lives as well as their own.
There have been several cases where people have been murder due to video games as
well as players who have committed suicide over video games.
*such cases could occur when :*
- Player feels the need to get what he/she wants within the game.
- Player is dealt with a great psychological blow within the game.
- Player is interrupted/irritated while playing a game.
other people's lives as well as their own.
There have been several cases where people have been murder due to video games as
well as players who have committed suicide over video games.
*such cases could occur when :*
- Player feels the need to get what he/she wants within the game.
- Player is dealt with a great psychological blow within the game.
- Player is interrupted/irritated while playing a game.
NOTABLE DEATHS CAUSED BY GAMING ADDICTION
*China*
In 2007, it was reported that Xu Yan died in Jinzhou after playing online games
persistently for over 2 weeks during the Lunar New Year holiday. Later 2007 reports
indicated that a 30-year-old male died in Guangzhou after playing video games
continuously for three days.
The suicide of a young Chinese boy in the Tianjin province has highlighted once
more the growing dangers of game addiction, when those responsible do not
understand or notice the risks of unhealthy play. Xiao Yi was thirteen when he
threw himself from the top of a twenty-four story tower block in his home town,
leaving notes that spoke of his addiction and his hope of being reunited with
fellow cyber-players in heaven. The suicide notes were written through the eyes of
a gaming character, so reports the China Daily, and stated that he hoped to meet
three gaming friends in the after life. His parents, who had noticed with growing
concern his affliction, weren't mentioned in the letters.
In March 2005, the BBC reported a murder in Shanghai, when Qiu Chengwei fatally
stabbed fellow player Zhu Caoyuan, who had sold on eBay a dragon saber sword he
had been lent in a Legend of Mir 3 game, and was given a suspended death sentence.
*South Korea*
In 2005, Seungseob Lee visited an Internet cafe in the city of
Taegu and played StarCraft almost continuously for fifty hours. He went into
cardiac arrest, and died at a local hospital.
A friend reported: "...he was a game addict. We all knew about it.
He couldn't stop himself." About six weeks before his death, his girlfriend,
also an avid gamer, broke up with him, and he had been fired from his job for
repeated tardiness.
In 2009, Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after
both her parents spent hours each day in an internet cafe raising a virtual child
on an online game, Prius Online.
*Vietnam*
An Earthtimes.org article reported in 2007 that police arrested a 13-year-old boy
accused of murdering and robbing an 81-year-old woman. A local policeman was
quoted as saying that the boy "...confessed that he needed money to play online
games and decided to kill and rob..." the victim. The article further related a
police report that the murder by strangling netted the thief 100,000 Vietnamese
dong (US$6.20).
*United States*
In February 2002, a Louisiana woman sued Nintendo because her son died after
suffering seizures caused by playing Nintendo 64 for eight hours a day, six days
a week. Nintendo denied any responsibility.
In August 2004, Troy Victorino and three accomplices entered a home on Telford
Lane in Deltona, FL and tortured and murdered Erin Belanger and 5 other people who
were in the home at the time of the attack. Victorino's motive for the attack was
to retrieve his Xbox, which Belanger had failed to return after evicting Victorino
from the home prior to the attack.
Press reports in November 2005 state that Gregg J. Kleinmark, 24, plead "guilty to
two counts of involuntary manslaughter". He "left fraternal twins Drew and Bryn
Kleinmark unattended in a bathtub for 30 minutes, in order to go three rooms away
and play on his Game Boy Advance" while "in the mean time, the two ten-months old
kids drowned".
A New Mexico woman named Rebecca Colleen Christie was convicted of second degree
murder and child abandonment, and sentenced to 25 years in prison, for allowing
her 3 and a half-year-old daughter to die of malnutrition and dehydration while
occupied with chatting and playing World of Warcraft online.
Tyrone Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, was convicted of third-degree murder for
killing his 17-month old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox.
Ohio teen Daniel Petric shot his parents, killing his mother, after they took away
his copy of Halo 3 in October 2007. In a sentencing hearing after the teen was
found guilty of aggravated murder, the judge said, "I firmly believe that Daniel
Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents
they would be dead forever." On 16 June 2009, Petric was sentenced to 23 years to
life in prison.
In Jacksonville, Florida, Alexandra Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder
for shaking her baby to death. She told investigators that the baby boy's crying
had interrupted her while she was playing a Facebook game called FarmVille.
She was sentenced in December 2010.
In November 2010 in South Philadelphia, Kendall Anderson, 16, killed his mother
for taking away his PlayStation by hitting her 20 times with a claw hammer while
she slept.
*Canada*
Brandon Crisp, an Ontario 15-year-old, ran away from home on Thanksgiving Monday
in 2008 after his parents took away his Xbox 360 due to falling grades and
excessive play of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He was last seen alive on a
bicycle trail. His body was found 3 weeks later, about three miles away, by a
party of hunters. An autopsy determined that he died when he fell from a tree.
source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#Notable_deaths
In 2007, it was reported that Xu Yan died in Jinzhou after playing online games
persistently for over 2 weeks during the Lunar New Year holiday. Later 2007 reports
indicated that a 30-year-old male died in Guangzhou after playing video games
continuously for three days.
The suicide of a young Chinese boy in the Tianjin province has highlighted once
more the growing dangers of game addiction, when those responsible do not
understand or notice the risks of unhealthy play. Xiao Yi was thirteen when he
threw himself from the top of a twenty-four story tower block in his home town,
leaving notes that spoke of his addiction and his hope of being reunited with
fellow cyber-players in heaven. The suicide notes were written through the eyes of
a gaming character, so reports the China Daily, and stated that he hoped to meet
three gaming friends in the after life. His parents, who had noticed with growing
concern his affliction, weren't mentioned in the letters.
In March 2005, the BBC reported a murder in Shanghai, when Qiu Chengwei fatally
stabbed fellow player Zhu Caoyuan, who had sold on eBay a dragon saber sword he
had been lent in a Legend of Mir 3 game, and was given a suspended death sentence.
*South Korea*
In 2005, Seungseob Lee visited an Internet cafe in the city of
Taegu and played StarCraft almost continuously for fifty hours. He went into
cardiac arrest, and died at a local hospital.
A friend reported: "...he was a game addict. We all knew about it.
He couldn't stop himself." About six weeks before his death, his girlfriend,
also an avid gamer, broke up with him, and he had been fired from his job for
repeated tardiness.
In 2009, Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after
both her parents spent hours each day in an internet cafe raising a virtual child
on an online game, Prius Online.
*Vietnam*
An Earthtimes.org article reported in 2007 that police arrested a 13-year-old boy
accused of murdering and robbing an 81-year-old woman. A local policeman was
quoted as saying that the boy "...confessed that he needed money to play online
games and decided to kill and rob..." the victim. The article further related a
police report that the murder by strangling netted the thief 100,000 Vietnamese
dong (US$6.20).
*United States*
In February 2002, a Louisiana woman sued Nintendo because her son died after
suffering seizures caused by playing Nintendo 64 for eight hours a day, six days
a week. Nintendo denied any responsibility.
In August 2004, Troy Victorino and three accomplices entered a home on Telford
Lane in Deltona, FL and tortured and murdered Erin Belanger and 5 other people who
were in the home at the time of the attack. Victorino's motive for the attack was
to retrieve his Xbox, which Belanger had failed to return after evicting Victorino
from the home prior to the attack.
Press reports in November 2005 state that Gregg J. Kleinmark, 24, plead "guilty to
two counts of involuntary manslaughter". He "left fraternal twins Drew and Bryn
Kleinmark unattended in a bathtub for 30 minutes, in order to go three rooms away
and play on his Game Boy Advance" while "in the mean time, the two ten-months old
kids drowned".
A New Mexico woman named Rebecca Colleen Christie was convicted of second degree
murder and child abandonment, and sentenced to 25 years in prison, for allowing
her 3 and a half-year-old daughter to die of malnutrition and dehydration while
occupied with chatting and playing World of Warcraft online.
Tyrone Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, was convicted of third-degree murder for
killing his 17-month old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox.
Ohio teen Daniel Petric shot his parents, killing his mother, after they took away
his copy of Halo 3 in October 2007. In a sentencing hearing after the teen was
found guilty of aggravated murder, the judge said, "I firmly believe that Daniel
Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents
they would be dead forever." On 16 June 2009, Petric was sentenced to 23 years to
life in prison.
In Jacksonville, Florida, Alexandra Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder
for shaking her baby to death. She told investigators that the baby boy's crying
had interrupted her while she was playing a Facebook game called FarmVille.
She was sentenced in December 2010.
In November 2010 in South Philadelphia, Kendall Anderson, 16, killed his mother
for taking away his PlayStation by hitting her 20 times with a claw hammer while
she slept.
*Canada*
Brandon Crisp, an Ontario 15-year-old, ran away from home on Thanksgiving Monday
in 2008 after his parents took away his Xbox 360 due to falling grades and
excessive play of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He was last seen alive on a
bicycle trail. His body was found 3 weeks later, about three miles away, by a
party of hunters. An autopsy determined that he died when he fell from a tree.
source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#Notable_deaths