Her addiction to casino gambling had reached critical proportions, threatening to destroy her and the family she loved. A successful professional earning a six-figure salary was losing $2,000 a week on the slot machines. She borrowed money from friends, dipped into her retirement savings and lied to her family about where the money was going. … Read more
The short-term mental health impact of playing video games is “likely too small” to be noticeable, according to a major Oxford University study published on Wednesday (July 27). “Our study finds little or no evidence of connections between gaming and well-being,” said Andrew K Przybylski, a researcher at the university’s Oxford Internet Institute. The study … Read more
Photo: ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY (Shutterstock) Anytime there’s a task you don’t want to do, there’s a guaranteed way to make you feel worse about it :JJust add a whole layer of guilt and disappointment on top. Stripes you’ll inevitably break, badges you don’t care about, check-in notifications that annoy you when you were just trying to … Read more