Yes Rainbowzz I know what you mean. What I mean is that games these days are too graphic and some of the nature of them is extreme violence for their age groups. I didn't have the problem because my boys are outdoor boys, football, abseiling, skydiving, off roading, surfing..that was their every weekend it probably would have been safer if they did play computer games.

I agree completely that parents should be involved in their kids pass times so that they know what is making their kids tick. Explain things to them and explain war. The therapy groups here are run on the basis that it stands to reason if you have a kid who all of a sudden changes habits and starts staying in their room more, only wanting to play games on the computer their atittude sliding school work sliding and getting angry over nothing, then you have a problem. A gaming addiction is no less personality changing than illicit drugs thats why there are very real therapy groups for people with gaming addiction

http://www.psycharts.com/index.htm This one is in Austin Texas

One kid I know has been addicted to gaming since he was 7 his mother just let him go because it made her life peaceful. He was addicted to war/military games. That boy is now 18 years old, and is so chronically depressed from all the death and destruction from his gaming years he is on disability. He is in the program for addicted gamers and there is hope that he will eventually come out of it and go to work. But the fact that he is 18 and unemployable because of his addiction and the depression caused by it, is proof positive that Gaming Therapy is helping him and is not "crap" as is accused of being by some

Rhian