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See Kevin interviewed by Teen TV News: Videogame Addiction interview I still struggle with the insistence by some that violent video games produce violent people. While violent shooters do often have a history of video game addiction, we must be careful when we attempt to apply that association to the general population. However, video gaming… Read more
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See Kevin interviewed by Teen TV News: Videogame Addiction interview We live in a world where information, especially of a highly negative and disturbing variety, inundates and overwhelms us every day. Most of us struggle to integrate the information, let alone have time to understand and fully process it. I remember during the Sandy Hook… Read more
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This blog is written by Alex, updating us on his growing awareness regarding his addictive cyber tendencies. If you compare this with his earlier post, I think you will see an unquestionable evolution in him. For me, the cyber world is a double-edged sword. The sword metaphor is more than appropriate for me, due to… Read more
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I am not a scientist. The trouble with giving information to people like me, who comprise the overwhelming majority, is that we often confuse causation with correlation. The latter term means that some relationship between two factors exists, but does not mean one causes the other. Here is a classic example: As ice cream sales… Read more
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Alex is a member of one of my cyber recovery groups. He is a 23-year old with a very high IQ, but whose life has gone nowhere. He has been booted out of numerous living situations, lost jobs and alienated friends and family, mostly due to his obsession with multiple aspects of video games. Peeling… Read more