https://www.health.harvard.edu...gaming-2020122221645

This article highlights some benefits as well as negative effects of gaming:

They highlight that gaming can enhance feeling connected as well as helping adolescents with ADHD improve their thinking skills.

They highlight the possible negative effects of gaming as repetitive stress or overuse injuries in hands or arms, obesity, vision problems, sleep deprivation, circadian rhythm disorders, anxiety, depression and aggression.

The article reports that an estimated 0.3 to 1% of Americans may have Internet Gaming Disorder.

This article is relevant to our work in that it highlights some of the benefits someone might get from gaming therefore giving insight into motivation as well as highlighting the potential negative impact on their physical and mental health. It is always important to understand the motivation behind the behaviour and perceived benefit that the individual is getting from engaging it.

I think that the physical effects of behavioural addictions are often minimized or overlooked because they are not always as obvious as with substance abuse.