Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
Most people have heard of the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance , the framework is so embedded in our culture that...
Read Article →Many people who struggle with gaming dependency describe real life in similar terms: flat, colorless, slow, empty. Not temporarily , not just on days when...
Read Article →The previous article in this series made the case that gaming builds genuine, transferable skills , not as a consolation prize, but as an accurate...
Read Article →If you have spent years gaming heavily, you have probably absorbed a particular story about what that time means. The story usually runs something like...
Read Article →Telehealth has become the standard for many types of therapy, but it’s worth saying something specific about why online therapy works particularly well for gaming...
Read Article →The mental health field hasn’t caught up with gaming addiction yet. There are excellent clinicians working in this space, but they’re not the majority, and...
Read Article →If you’re considering treatment for gaming addiction , whether for yourself or someone you care about , you probably have more questions than the internet...
Read Article →One of the parts of changing a gaming relationship that almost nobody talks about , including a lot of clinicians , is the grief. Not...
Read Article →When someone who games heavily describes their guild or their online friends to a therapist who doesn’t understand gaming culture, something often gets lost. The...
Read Article →There’s a version of gaming dependency that most models don’t quite account for. Not the person who got pulled into a reward loop and can’t...
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