Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
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”...
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....
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