Gaming has been always been the most recreating things for children and adults. And online gaming is one of the best and fun way to get socialized with people ,making teams and working on teamwork and developing different skills  .I have explained all these positive experiences of Gaming .But actually the online gaming has various risk which are very hazardous for everyone whether it's children or adult.

In past 2 to 3 years, online gaming has become a daily life routine of adults and children. Online gaming is offering young people to escape from reality and believe in virtual world. There has been a lot of news where we got to know about young people are getting addicted to games. WHO has classified the gaming addiction as disorder under category 6; “Disorder due to addictive behaviour”.During gaming amount of dopamine is released which creates anxiety and addiction towards it.

Excessive gaming causes various kind of physical as well as mental problems too. Like Repetitive strain injury ,stiffness ,pain, ache and various wrist and hand problem ,nerves problem  because of playing constant game. Eye problems are also increasing because of longer screen time .It also creates bad posture which become problem in adulthood. Headaches and migraines are increasing in younger population because of constant glare screen. Because of this many youngsters are suffering from depression issues. In current researches it has been seen The youngsters  react on very small things and have great anger issues.

Online gaming is also hampering studies ;students are not able to concentrate,  low motivated towards learning new things. They surround themselves with games only ;they  separate themselves from physical interaction with family. 

Remember “The Blue Whale Challenge” game which created sensation around the globe few years back. Teenagers started to play this game and many of the teens started to do suicide around the world. 

Ankan Dey , a 15 year old teenager from Indian state of West Bengal was the first victim of this horrific game as it was assumed. the teenager commited suicide in his bathroom . Police was enquiring the case whether it was due to the Blue Whale game.

WHO in 2018 classified Gaming Disorder as International Classification of Disease. It is very urgent to prevent gaming diorder as soon as possible before it becomes more dangerous.

There are few steps that could help in preventing gaming addiction:-

• Set rules and realistic time limits for gaming and follow up that rule.
• Increase outdoor physical and sports activities and spend more time in those activities.
• Monitor your child's use of electronic devices and the internet browser.
• be a good role model and try to limit your time on screens and devices.