Term 2 Week 5 (20th April)

Article: “I was an addict” – ‘Straits Times IN’ Section (In The Air Pg 2)

1a) What are some of the earliest signs mentioned in the article to indicate that a person is addicted to gaming?

1b) State some of the methods listed by the author to overcome the addiction to gaming.

2) What are some of your reactions after reading this article? If a close friend of yours confesses to you that he/she is addicted to online games, what would your advice to him/her be?



First he or she would start to skip meals and lost sleep , calling themselves by their avatar name , have constant urge for things that the gamer is crazy over , talk about the game all the time and alsobegin to imagine things . Find some balance by going outdoors more often than staying at home instead of spending time on the computer lock to the chair in the room facing it the whole day , lock the computer so that she would not even go try to use it , start to socialise more often by talking more with the friends in school and also have friends who would constantly remind her not to game . I feel that it is easy for anyone to get addicted to computer gaming as it ie very addictive. If i can use my computer all day , i would just forget all bout the time in the world and be buey gaming the whole day immediately right after school . And constant urge to use the computer will fill my mind like mad and would be tempted to rush home so that i could quickily use the computer the first thing i do when i first reach home . If a close friend of mine confesses that he or she is an addicted online gamer than i would advise him or her to spend more time outdoors as it helps to keep the gamer away from the computer so he would not have the constant urge , tall him the bad effects of gaming like being addicted as he already is and also like he would spoil his eyesight sooner or later and also tall him to quit gaming while he should can if he is going to find it quite hard to get rid of the habit .