Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
When people talk about gaming addiction, they usually picture teenagers , a seventeen-year-old pulled into an online world, withdrawing from family, failing classes. And that’s...
Read Article →One of the most common dynamics I encounter in families dealing with gaming addiction isn’t the gaming itself , it’s the fact that the parents...
Read Article →If you’re reading this, there’s a reasonable chance you’ve been running on fumes for a while. Maybe months. You’ve been in research mode, trying to...
Read Article →When you’re in the middle of a child’s gaming addiction , the daily conflicts, the fear about their future, the strain on everyone in the...
Read Article →There’s a particular kind of pain that parents describe when their teenager has been absorbed into gaming addiction. It’s not just frustration. It’s grief. You...
Read Article →Parents dealing with gaming addiction usually think a lot about limits , how much time is too much, how to enforce rules, what consequences to...
Read Article →One of the most difficult things I tell parents is this: you cannot force your child to recover from gaming addiction. You can create conditions...
Read Article →If you’ve tried confrontation and it’s made things worse. If you’ve tried rules and they’ve generated more conflict than compliance. If you’ve tried expressing concern...
Read Article →When parents find out their child is struggling with gaming addiction, the responses that feel most natural are usually the ones that make things worse....
Read Article →One of the most unhelpful things anyone says to a person struggling with gaming is some version of “it’s just a game.” The word “just”...
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