Is Video Gaming an Addiction? I Think My Brother Needs Help?
Question by Suzy and Anthony: Is video gaming an addiction? I think my brother needs help?
Please no making fun of, or bringing anyone down…
My brother is 21 years old. He lives with my mom and does not work due to immigration status that is pending. He graduated from high school at 19. My mom is a great mom, she has me, him and my sister who is 22 and we are both successful living with out own families.
My brother on the other hand just sits in his room all day long playing the xbox. Call of duty to be exact. He showers maybe 1-2 times a month. Hasn’t cut his nails, barely brushes his teeth, doesn’t groom himself (could probably play Jesus, literally….) The only reason his room is clean is because when he does take that once a month shower my mom sneaks in to clean it. He’s even eating just once a day because my mom told him he stinks and needs to take care of himself. So now he prevents seeing her and eats when she’s asleep. She is really worries. She told him that when she’s not around anymore nobody is going to put up with him, and he just tells her he is going to die when she dies. She was crying and called me and told me that she looked into his eyes and heard him say that and that it crushed her because she felt, as a Mother, he doesn’t care about his life.
I want to help, but don’t know how? Is this an addiction? I mean he plays 24/7, sleeps in the day for like 8 hours and plays the rest of the day/night. His friends are people that also play that he’s never met before just talks to on the xbox live. I don’t get it, he was such a good student and had so many popular friends.
Is there therapy for these kind of things?
My mom has threaten to kick him out and he says he is just going to die out there. She is scared. He can’t join the army. His status is pending, he has legal rights to live here, but can’t go to school, work or nothing til immigration approves his residency. When she took the xbox away from him for almost two months all he did was sleep and stay in his room reading books. He is so smart and a great guy. I am real depressed about this too.
Best answer:
Answer by Zayex
Videogaming is as much an addiction as playing chess. People who become anti-social and withdraw themselves from the world could have many reasons for doing so, videogames are simply a coping method. If you want to help him, you need to break him out of his depression-esque mindset. If all he does is play videogames and never take care of himself, he has obviously given up on living and just wants to waste time until he dies.
Taking away the videogames won’t solve the problem, what you need to do is show him that his life can be exciting, meaningful and rewarding, so that he won’t want to stay at home all day and live like a catatonic person. You need to open his eyes to snap him out of it.
Edit: Other answerer couldn’t be more wrong. And the girl was addicted to her phone because she had deep psychological problems, and that was her way of coping.
Answer by Emily
It is, climb up a mountain and chuck the Xbox and all other devices off the top of it
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