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Play Video Games A Lot? You Might Get Depressed!

Yeah, I do get depressed sometimes; especially when I can’t find any new games to play. I do have my all time favorites but sometimes, I feel like playing something new. And it seems to me that these days, it is not that easy to find excellent games like in the old days.

I just read about this study which talks about a different kind of depression, though; the REAL kind. WA Today has the story:

Teenagers who spend a lot of time watching TV or playing video games are at higher risk of developing depression as young adults, a study has found.

American researchers looked at the viewing habits of 4142 healthy adolescents and followed them up seven years later, by which time 308 had developed depression.

When the study began in 1995, DVDs and the internet were not widely available and the teenagers used different electronic media for about 5.7 hours a day on average.

This included 2.3 hours of television, 2.3 hours of radio, 0.6 hours of video cassettes and 0.4 hours of computer games.

The study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, found that each additional hour of daily television viewing significantly increased the risk of depression.

So it’s not just video games, eh? I don’t know about this study. While I do know a lot of depressed people – more than is normal, I sometimes think – I really cannot make that connection between playing video games a lot and the condition. Perhaps more study is needed? What do you think? Are you convinced?

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