Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
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”...
Read Article →It’s the most natural thing in the world. Your child is spending every waking hour on games, school is falling apart, the family can barely...
Read Article →Try this for a moment. Imagine the game your child plays as if it were a physical place , a neighborhood, a community center, a...
Read Article →Here’s what I hear from parents in my office all the time: “He games for six hours on a weekend. Is that too much? Should...
Read Article →You probably didn’t see this coming. Maybe it started gradually , a few extra hours on weekends, a little more resistance when you called them...
Read Article →There’s a specific kind of gamer who doesn’t talk about this easily: someone who is genuinely good at games, who has found in gaming something...
Read Article →There’s a particular kind of shame that adult gamers carry that isn’t quite like anything else. It’s not just the shame of having a problem....
Read Article →If you have ADHD and you also game heavily, there’s a good chance you’ve already heard some version of the following: “It’s funny that you...
Read Article →Online friends are real. Online relationships can matter deeply. That’s worth saying first, because a lot of conversations about gaming and social isolation start with...
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