Understanding Online Gaming Addiction

Over the past year, I have found a few resources that have helped me understand digital addictions (Smartphone, MMORPG, FPS, such as Candy Crush, WOW, Destiny, Overwatch, COD, Fortnite, and a few others)

Here are a few that I would like to share with the community:

James Sugel: The Twelve Steps for Smartphone Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Steps-Smartphone-Addiction/dp/1732955107

A Tripartite Neurocognitive Model of Internet Gaming Disorder by Lei Wei, Shuyue Zhang, Ofir Turel, Antoine Bechara and Qinghua He
: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00285/full

and most recently:

Fanni Banyai, Mark D. Griffiths, Zsolt Demetrovics, Orsolya Kiraly. The mediating effect of motivations between psychiatric distress and gaming disorder among esport gamers and recreational gamers : https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191022121123.htm

Behavioral Addictions are incredibly difficult to treat and require accountability, awareness of the severity of the problem and hope that engaging in processing the aspects of life that led you to addiction will eventually lead to more satisfaction than a dopamine bump from a game.