Gaming, like other behavioral addictions, is a habit of thought that is a stimulus/response cycle that happens beyond the awareness of the conscious mind. There are many habits of thought, mostly useful, and they are usually there because it is easier to have an automatic response to a stimulus than to have to think through a problem, if it is a problem you have faced many times before. Addictions are specific kinds of habits of thoughts where the person is using the habit to soothe themselves in a way that never addresses the underlying cause of the need to be soothed. This kind of habit of thought is not so useful because it perpetuates the need for the habit when, if you got rid of the underlying cause, you wouldn’t need the habit. The process for changing a habit of thought, is largely the same, no matter what kind of habit of thought you want to change. Usually people embark on this difficult work because they want to change a habit of thought that causes a behavioral pattern ...
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