Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
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...
Read Article →If you’re someone who deals with anxiety and also games heavily, you probably already know that gaming works. Not as a cure, not as a...
Read Article →People sometimes ask whether gaming causes depression, and the question comes with an implicit expectation: there should be a clear answer, a direction to the...
Read Article →There’s a conversation that happens constantly — between a gamer and a worried partner, between a parent and a teenager, sometimes just inside someone’s own...
Read Article →Most descriptions of recovery follow a narrative arc that doesn’t match anyone’s actual experience. There’s a turning point, a period of struggle, and then transformation...
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