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Video Game Blame

The Sims

Public Responses “I made a guy who was a compulsive neat freak. Put him in a really surreal little house with a wedding buffet and a hamster or something, deleted the door. Eventually he went insane from lack of cleanliness and depression over his little rodent friend dying, and starved to death once the banquet rotted. I put the resulting urn in the room. I then repeated an identical scenario several times, always keeping the urns in the room. Eventually the 10th iteration of this guy is up all night, every night, terrified of a parade of ghosts of him.” Another user stated that “I would train my son to be a good enough painter to do screenshot paintings. I then forced him to paint me naked or having sex with his mother and other women. I hung the paintings everywhere.” “I would train my son to be a good enough painter to do screenshot paintings. I then forced him to paint me naked or having sex with his mother and other women. I hung the paintings everywhere.” “My teenage son decide waking up to his alarm and getting on the school bus was unimportant, so I locked him in a 1×1 room until he peed himself and died in the puddle.”

Mental Health Statistics According to the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health; Nearly 40% of adults with "severe" mental illness — such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder — received no treatment in the previous year. Among adults with any mental illness, 60% were untreated.

Conclusion Psychologists have said that the connection can be drawn in some personalities prone to violent behaviours. Those same people can be inspired by any other form of media. Dangerous people draw dangerous conclusions where majority of people only sees entertainment. Instead of passing the blame to video games we need to look at the actual issue rather than trying to cover up our failings. If people took the blame off video games and instead focused on the real issues and causes we could potentially change the lives of millions of people who suffer every day with mental illness.

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