The new type of brain-based Internet addiction is rampant among teenagers, and children are the hardest hit: Parents really shouldn’t let it go anymore

Online games have an addictive mechanism, and addiction to them will cause changes in the physiological structure of the brain. These two points are almost the same as drugs. It can be said that addiction to online games is a new type of brain drug that is flooding, and the target is children. A few days before game addiction was classified as a mental illness, there was a big news: On June 19, the World Health Organization officially classified \”game addiction\” as a mental illness and notified countries around the world to include this disease in the medical system. In other words, being overly addicted to games now can be considered a form of mental illness. Not only that, online games have two major characteristics. The first is the addiction mechanism: developers will set up addiction mechanisms in order to make you addicted to them; the second is that it will cause changes in the brain structure. It can be said that the phenomenon of addiction to online games is the proliferation of \”new brain drugs\”, and the targets are children. As soon as the incident came out, netizens were all excited. \”How come I\’m mentally ill when I play a good game?\” \”What\’s breaking the standard? I just played a game and now I\’m mentally ill?\” I thought of two news reports. The first one was reported by Qianjiang Evening News. A 22-year-old young man has been fond of playing online games since he was a child. In high school, he became even more addicted to it. He often skipped classes and went to Internet cafes to play games all night long. He simply dropped out of school and came to Hangzhou to work. I say it\’s a part-time job, but actually I want to get away from my parents\’ control and play games more happily. He borrowed 60,000 yuan from his parents, relatives and loan sharks, rented a small dilapidated house and bought a computer. From then on, I was addicted to online games every day. I didn’t look for a job, only ordered takeout for meals, never left the house, and completely isolated myself from all contact with the outside world. In this rental house, his daily life consisted of playing games, ordering takeout, and sleeping, alternating between morning and evening. 2 months later, something happened. Friends and family were unable to contact him, so they found the rental house where he lived and called the police. When the police arrived, they were shocked when they opened the door and saw a foul smell. The young man was lying on the bed, motionless. The sheets were already wet and it seemed to smell like urine. Next to him is a lit computer, which is still in the game interface. Look at him again, a young man in his twenties, with a sallow face and thin muscles, and he is in a daze. When he was taken to the hospital, what surprised the doctors even more was that he actually had bedsores on his buttocks! You have to know that bedsores are only likely to develop in patients who are paralyzed and bedridden for a long time. Under normal circumstances, bedsores can occur only if the skin is pressed with one movement for more than ten hours in a dark and humid environment. I can almost imagine this young man\’s life in the past two months: he eats and orders takeout every day, has no routine, eats when he is too hungry, sleeps when he is too sleepy, and spends the rest of the time playing games and being highly concentrated. Staying motionless in the same posture resulted in slow blood circulation, numbness, and bed sores in the lower body, resulting in incontinence of urine and feces, with the patient having to urinate and defecate all on the bed. But even so, he can still be addicted to the game. How deep of an addiction do you have to be to be so decadent? This young man\’s rental house contains a quilt and a computer. He plays games, pees and poops directly on the bed without wanting to move. The second news was seen on NetEase. A 13-year-old child likes to play Honor of Kings and is very obsessed with it. After returning home from schoolI just played with my mobile phone, and my grades plummeted. When the child\’s father saw it, he was very angry: \”Dad is not in good health. I make money to support you and study hard. You have to study hard. You have an exam tomorrow, so don\’t play games tonight.\” Mr. Zhang took the phone away from the child. return. The child walked to the balcony without saying a word and suddenly jumped off. Mr. Zhang was scared to death. \”Fortunately, the floor was not high, and the ground was wet from the rain, but he was also seriously injured.\” But what he never expected was that as soon as the child woke up, before the operation was done, he asked Mr. Zhang for his mobile phone: \”Give it to me quickly. , I want to play games!\” He pestered him for money to buy equipment. Many people say that games are not addictive, they are just for fun. That is because they have never seen what people who are addicted to games look like! Have you ever seen a game that is just for fun and makes yourself incontinent? Have you ever seen someone forcing their parents to buy gaming equipment just for playing games? Many people say that gambling is just for fun, but what’s the result? Many people say that taking drugs is just for fun at the beginning, but what is the result? All of them are addicted, and all of them pay a very heavy price for it. Therefore, I very much agree with the WHO’s inclusion of “game addiction” as a mental illness. People who are extremely obsessed with games are just like gambling and drug addicts. They can’t find any meaning in life and are immersed in virtual worlds or drugs. , relying on them to get bursts of pleasure. Once this pleasure disappears, you have to continue to indulge in seeking new pleasure. Their lives are left with only the shallowest level of virtual pleasure, without any content. They must also rely on this pleasure to survive. With all due respect, this is addiction, this is mental illness. Like playing games does not mean game addiction. A female reader left a message for me in the background: \”I heard that the World Health Organization classified game addiction as a mental illness. My child now plays a game of chicken every night before going to bed. I just went to bed, is this considered an addiction?\” I replied to her: \”Not everyone who likes to play games is a game addict; playing games and game addiction are completely different concepts. Play a game every night Eating chicken, if the time is not long, does not deprive him of sleep and study time, does not make his life worse, but relieves stress and anxiety. It is not necessary to play chicken every day and then sleep.\” We have been growing up since childhood. I like playing games because I can have fun. Playing is nature, a physiological need, and a natural human right. Everyone should play, and only those who can play will enjoy life. Online games have greatly expanded our playing space and imagination, and they also save time. There is no need to gather friends or find a special venue to play. It is inevitable to like playing online games. But playing online games and game addiction are completely different concepts. WHO has three criteria for \”game addiction\”: WHO has three criteria for \”game addiction\”: (1) Impaired ability to control game playing. I have seen news about a college student who was so addicted to games that he stayed in an Internet cafe all night for three consecutive days playing games without even having time to go to the toilet, which eventually led to his bladder exploding. When you play the game to this point, you lose control. You can’t control the time and frequency you play games; you can’t control when you should play and whenYou shouldn\’t play. (2) Games are above all else, and other interests and daily activities must give way to games. I saw a news on Sina that a mother was sent to the ICU and needed major surgery. She wanted to see her child, maybe for the last time. As a result, the children stayed in front of the computer and were unwilling to leave. The reason was: \”I want to play games.\” For them, games are the meaning of existence, and games are the highest priority of everything. Their mobile phones were confiscated and they were banned from playing games. They dared to die, just like the 13-year-old boy above who jumped off the building. (3) Gaming behavior continues and escalates even if it results in negative consequences. What is a negative impact? The negative impact is that playing games causes bedsores and incontinence, but you still have to play; the negative impact is that playing games causes you to hold your urine until your bladder explodes, but you still have to continue playing. In addition, to be diagnosed with \”gaming addiction\”, the pattern of behavior must be severe enough to cause significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, workplace or other important areas, and usually persist significantly for at least 12 months. In other words, not everyone who likes to play games is a game addict. You don’t need to worry too much. When you see this news, you will jump up and wonder whether your child is addicted to games or whether there is a disorder in his life. It\’s not that easy. \”Research shows that only a small proportion of people who participate in digital and video gaming activities are affected by gaming disorder.\” Gaming disorder is not a scourge. Playing games is not a scourge, but it cannot be taken lightly. If you like playing games, it is not a scourge, but you cannot take it lightly. Especially for children, who lack basic self-discipline, lack of understanding of the concept of time, and have a vague world view, and like to play games, it is especially easy to become addicted to games. For game lovers, the first thing to be wary of is: the next step to addiction is addiction. I saw a news story about a child in junior high school who stood on the roof of the 32nd floor and threatened to jump because his parents let him play games. As for his parents, they never expected it to reach this point. In fact, his child didn\’t like playing games before, but his parents were very busy and didn\’t have time to take care of him, so they let him play mobile games to pass the time. \”It doesn\’t matter, it\’s just for fun.\” This was his father\’s idea. It was just for fun, but in the end, the more I played, the deeper I got. At the worst point, I played with my phone all day long, and the game recharge alone amounted to hundreds of thousands. Many people think that games are just for fun, just like playing hide and seek. But many people don’t know that online games have an addictive mechanism. Developers of online games, in order to make players like playing games more and more and become addicted to them, will set up addiction mechanisms to make you unable to extricate yourself. For people who do not have basic self-discipline, such as children and some adults, it is very easy to become addicted. Once addicted, it is difficult to quit. Therefore, for parents, there is nothing wrong with their children playing games, but as parents, they must control the time and frequency of playing games for their children, and cannot indulge them from the beginning, no matter how much they cry. This is responsibility, but also love. When it comes to children playing games, control should be in the hands of parents from the beginning. Second: travelPeople who are addicted to drama will experience changes in their brains. People with game addiction will experience changes in their brains: first, the abnormal gray matter volume in the brain will increase. The more severe the addiction symptoms, the larger this volume will be; secondly, the thickness of the left insular cortex of the brain will change. The more severe the addiction symptoms, the greater the thickness; you don’t need to know what these changes mean, but you must understand: game addiction is not just a psychological state, but a psychological addiction to games. Game addiction, like all other pornography, gambling and drug addictions, will bring about changes in the physiological structure of the brain. Whether this change is reversible is unknown. Parents need to be vigilant. If your child has been addicted to games since he was a child, his brain development will gradually show an abnormal trend. This is the most terrifying thing. If this change is irreversible, being addicted to games since childhood may affect the child\’s normal IQ, EQ, attention and other psychological states in the future. This is why it is said that children\’s widespread addiction to online games is a kind of brain drug. Third: Being addicted to games can easily lead to decadence. In order to write this topic, I interviewed several people who are obsessed with games. They do not work, do not participate in social activities, and do not have any other hobbies. Spend more than 15 hours a day playing games. I would rather sleep short and play games. These people, both men and women, are without exception decadent, depressed, and lifeless. They are either hunched over or slovenly, as if they cannot bring up the desire and passion for life. Writer Li Shanglong wrote an article: \”How to ruin a young man.\” The best way is to give him a computer, a game, an Internet cable, and a takeaway phone number, and this person will be useless. Why is it useless? Being addicted to games will break all routines. Think about the people around you who are addicted to online games. Is this true? After playing games all night, I didn\’t even bother to eat or even pee. I held it in until my bladder exploded. Not to mention dressing up, paying attention to image and figure, going to the gym, exercising, and reading. The pleasure of the virtual world swallows up people\’s energy step by step. People who have been addicted to the Internet world for a long time will inevitably become depressed and dull. On another level, continuous computer radiation can also cause harm to the human body. This is also something parents should be vigilant about. If you don’t master the rhythm well and your child is addicted to my online games, then the child’s youth will be wasted. In the best and most worthy years, I lived a slovenly, sluggish, wretched life, without any energy at all. It\’s scary. Choosing Yang Yongxin is to let children go from one extreme to another. A few years ago, online games emerged in China and a large number of children were addicted to the online world. In order to help their children get rid of Internet addiction, many parents found a man named Yang Yongxin. This is the notorious \”electric shock therapy\” – no matter how you look at it, I think it is notorious. Yang Yongxian is said to be an expert in treating Internet addicted teenagers at the Internet Detoxification Center. How does a young man who is addicted to the Internet treat himself? \”It\’s very simple, electric shock.\” A few big men tied the child to the hospital bed, then pointed the electric head at the child\’s temple and shocked him. Before giving the electric shock, Yang Yongxin will not do any physical examination on the child. He will shock the child until he admits his mistake and agrees with it.Beg for mercy, the electric shock will make you surrender. Chai Jing has interviewed several so-called \”Internet addicted teenagers\” who were electrocuted by Yang Yongxin. Chai Jing: \”What does it feel like to be shocked?\” \”It\’s just severe pain and twitching. Other children were holding me down. I can\’t describe the feeling. Really, you can only know it if you experience it. If you really want to say it, it\’s The small, vibrating hammer with a particularly high frequency hit my temple time and time again, and it was so painful!” When Chai Jing asked how long the electric shock would last, the child replied indifferently, “40 minutes.” Chai Jing asked: \”The electric shock hurts so much, why are you still willing to stay here?\” The little girl said: \”Because the electric shock is good and makes me feel awake.\” Chai Jing felt that the child\’s tone was wrong, so she asked again: \”Really? ?\” The little girl\’s face flushed red, tears fell heavily, and finally she still replied firmly: \”I am willing to stay here.\” It was fear, and it was an almost atonement-like begging for mercy. This is not treatment, this is torture. If you don\’t accept it, okay, then beat it, then give it electric shocks, until you accept it; if you don\’t admit it, okay, then beat it to death, until you admit it; if you don\’t obey, right? Okay, then I\’ll beat you until you\’re obedient. During the Qin Dynasty, the power eunuch Zhao Gao openly \”called a deer a horse\” in the court. All the officials were afraid of Zhao Gao\’s power and no one dared to stand up and oppose him. Adults can succumb to power or threats, let alone a child. You ask him to receive electric shocks and torture him to the point of excruciating pain. In this case, he is willing to eat shit, let alone admit his mistake. All parents who send their children to Yang Yongxin and others in the name of \”treating Internet addiction\”, with all due respect, are more seriously ill than their children. Of course, Yang Yongxin is not an isolated case. Thousands of Yang Yongxins, in the name of \”treating Internet addiction\” to their children, are actually torturing their children in various ways. You must be clear about this, you must understand: \”Yang Yongxin cannot cure your child, they will only torture him, destroy his interests, hobbies, independent personality, trust and security, and turn him into a slave and a useless person. He was obedient.\” Writer Liang Xin said it well: \”People think that suffering will make people stronger. But in fact, most people are tortured by suffering to the point of being out of shape, weak, conservative, and full of servility. Like a pack of dogs migrating. Walking on the street, laughing happily. People who are truly strengthened by suffering never think that they have experienced suffering. Those who claim to have come out of suffering have taken off their human skin and put on prison uniforms. \”.\” Some suggestions for parents: (1) Whether it is a computer or a mobile phone, it must be absolutely in your own hands; only at a fixed time every day (for example, after the child has finished his homework, performed well, etc.) can the mobile phone be given to the child to play with. And the time for playing must be strictly regulated. (2) Don’t become soft-hearted because of your child’s crying and begging, and give him your phone easily. This is not love, but a woman’s kindness. (3) If you want your children not to be addicted to mobile games, you must first do this: Don’t always lower your head to play with your phone, and don’t keep scrolling through Weibo and WeChat while eating. (4) Spend more time with your child, go to the park or the beach, and let him feel the beauty of the real world. Spend energy and time instead of throwing awayGive the child a mobile phone to play with. (5) Don’t demonize online games. The 5G era is coming soon, but if you still insist on not letting your children touch mobile phones, this is going to the other extreme. It is normal for children to play games, but they must play games under the supervision and management of their parents. (6) Spend more time on raising children. Raising children is like planting flowers. If you put your heart into it, it will bloom. If you use it more, it will fill your room with fragrance.