Originally Posted by petunia
Zen, what would you do about a "game addiction"? He likes Minecraft but it doesn't work on our computer so he just plays it once or twice a week at a friend's house and watches the tutorials at our house. It's pretty much just computer games in general.

Augh!

I was just floating that out there. I think it would be obvious if it was something like World of Warcraft, and he was staying up late to play that. If it is a wide variety of games, then game addiction doesn't seem likely.

If it was an online game like WoW, then even impersonal impacts could cause freakouts. For example if the internet was out or the computer doesn't boot you'd expect some extreme reactions. I had a good friend who had a gambling addiction; she played on riverboats. When there was flooding one day and the boat was closed, she had a full on panic attack.

Last edited by Zen Scanner; 01/16/13 10:48 AM.