Negative effects of playing video games

In the current tech era, there will hardly be anyone on the planet who doesn't play video games. Video games are quite fun when are played in a specific limit. But in excess it may even cause mental disorder. WHO(World Health Organization) in classification of diseases, has included gaming addiction as a mental disorder. Following are some of the disadvantages of playing video games.

1. Effects Eyesight

It is more common nowadays to see small kids wearing thick spectacles. Not all person will get a weak eyesight, but gazing the screen from a close distance for a long time adversely effects the eyesight that contribute towards eye related problems like myopia.

2. Makes the player lazy

Obviosly you won't be playing video games by walking in the park( unless the game is PokemonGo). While playing video games, one spents a lot time laying on the couch which makes the person lazy and may even cause weight gain. You would have also experieced that while playing games you even forget to drink water and eat food on time. We all know how unhealthy that is.

3. Behavioral changes

People who play lot of video games(especially action games) may easily become violent and may loose temper for no reason. They may even loose interest in the environment that surrounds them which make them anti-social to some extent. This may even lead to underdeveloped personality since the player ceases to socialize

4. Poor academic performance 

Well, playing video games is also a hobby, but playing it for a long time may deprive the person of learning new things. A game addict will always be thinking of sacrificing other things that may be sometimes more important than gaming like studying, playing outdoor games, etc. It is also found that people who play games addictively end up doing bad in their academic life.

5. Wastes time

It is no doubt that playing video games wastes a lot of the player's time that could be utilized for some important productive work. While playing video games, the addict no more realizes the value of time. At some worst scenario, the player even pay no heed to other works and end up playing game for the whole day.

What WHO says?

According to World Health Organization, this mental health disorder is characterized by giving priority to gaming, despite the consequences in person's social and work life. People who just don't care about anything but gaming are most susceptible to this disorder.

So as every addiction, gaming addiction also has adverse effect.

Gaming is not bad at all, but its overuse is. Infact in Asian Games 2022,

Online Gaming will be one of the sports events. E-sports will soon take 

a place among other sport events.