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Video Games and Mental Health Explained
This blog focuses on video games and mental health in today’s world where everything seems to be easily accessible including mental illnesses from activities which were created as recreational needs, although they might be blamed for all sorts of negative effects on mental health, this blog distects all aspects of video game addiction.
A good quote would be “Excessive video gaming is found to be associated with positive emotions and social relationships while playing. However, problematic and excessive video gaming is also associated with maladaptive coping strategies, negative emotions and attitudes, low self-esteem, loneliness, and poor academic performance.”
It goes on about how do video games affect emotions and mental health, as it explains to us the overwhelming strength negative emotions have on the human brain, personal i see this as true from my own perspective i can get a million compliments but one bad review on me could ruin my whole day, because i believe the human brain doesn’t know how to comprehend negative emotions. As this blog goes on to explain different mental illnesses faced by people in the gaming world (alexithymia) as it is the inability to determine one inner emotions.
Future more it breaks down other topics like depression and anxiety which is every overwhelming topic in todays online world i believe that this article/blog would be very necessary not just for gamers but also people who are going through any form of depression in other to make an understanding of what they are facing.
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https://www.healthygamer.gg/blog/video-games-and-mental-health-explained
WOMEN IN ESPORTS: RECOGNIZING THE STGMA
This blog post is by maii sabilano as it recognizes stigmatization in the female gaming industry, they speak about how many female gamers in the professional level have to work twice as hard to especially in our social constructed world, as women are still in the early stages of a break out into professional gaming, this blog covers many professional female games there achievements and the mental stress which they had to go through as women getting to a professional level.
The blog is important for a world which is striving for equality especially amongst gender and in the online world of gaming which has been built on competitive toxicity.
Below you may find the link