STRESS AND HOW VIDEO GAMES HELP IT? BY MICKY W.

WHAT ARE VIDEO GAMES? A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen(e.g. like a phone), is a video game.

WHAT IS STRESS? A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances is called stress. Stress is what makes us feel pressured (e.g. like peer pressure) to do something.

HOW DO VIDEO GAMES HELP YOU WORK THROUGH STRESS? Playing video games can relieve your stress, reduce your depression, and make you feel better. That may sound like a big topic, but at this point there’s plenty of evidence available to support it. Enough evidence in fact, that if video games aren’t a regular part of your life right now, adding a bit of game-playing time to your schedule could actually improve your mental health in many surprising ways, I know it sounds weird and/or unbelievable but it’s true. This topic is not without its controversy, and there are plenty of studies and research on both sides to build a case on either (the topic of how they benefit you and, How they’re bad for you), but lately the research in favor of video games is so compelling that it’s almost irresponsible to not acknowledge the many benefits that video games offer.

There is a reason so many people turn to gaming, and if recent research is any indication, it’s because video games provide a tremendous vehicle for stress relief in anyone’s life (plus, they’re fun). Whatever the reason, if you make the conscious choice to play video games after work, you will experience faster recovery from the stress you experienced, and you’ll be able to handle that stress all that much better the next day. Video games do have a direct, positive effect on the human brain. However, contrary to popular belief, the effects of video games are not negative, but positive

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When you think of gaming, you may picture a bunch of teen boys sitting in front of a big screen television like zombies, jamming buttons on their controllers/keyboards while aggressively playing violent video games, which we all do sometimes and that’s the truth mostly when we are mad at the game or the people beating us though. Everyone plays video games unless you live under a rock, everyone sneaks in that ten minutes of fruit ninja and angry birds when they are bored. Even women/girls play video games, so all you male gamers they chance of getting a gamer girlfriend (oh that was cheesy), are very high. STEREOTYPES

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