By: Jason Huang

Why Gaming Is Bad

Excessive gaming is bad for gamers because they are at a high risk of developing GD, or gaming disorder. This is when gamers cannot put the game down and will also skip meals like lunch or dinner just to play! Recently, a meeting by Australian psychiatrists with psychiatrists from New Zealand talked about GTP or gaming transfer phenomenon. GTP occurs when gamers see and hear things like health bars or a narrator speaking. The condition is thought to be linked to GD or video game addiction. RANZCP or the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists said that they think that ten percent of young people have GTP.

What Happens If You Can’t Control Yourself

GTP will likely occur when you cannot stop playing video games and you will be mad if a person tries to stop you. “They prioritize it over sleep, over having meals, going to school, completing homework, completing social activities,” Dr Seth said. If you have GD then you will start to have GTP if you start to hear the game and see the elements of the game after you put it down. “When I was really a hardcore player in WoW ( World of Warcraft), when I got my adrenaline pumping, I started seeing health bars above people’s heads,” a gamer said.

A different gamer named Daniel Owen described it with insomnia when he played Portal 2. “It was to the point that it interrupted my sleeping patterns,” he said. “It felt as if my body went to sleep but my mind was still working. It seems to happen in games with frequent sidekick interaction or a narrator.”

“I remember specifically on another occasion, after Super Mario Sunshine came out , that I could not sleep for a full night for nearly a week. That was the worst.

“I’ve never had anything bleed into my waking life, though, but could see that possibly happening to a person that plays video games more frequently.”