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CNN on Shooter Mental Health
On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:59:18 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: I blame computer games for some of the ADD/ADHD issues. Computer games have the kids minds going at warp speed. They get used to it. Then they have to face a math teacher, or English, or whatever, who is moving at normal speed. The rest of life is moving at normal speed. If they spend hours a day, literally, with warp speed games, how can they be expected to appreciate the slooooooness of daily life. My two cents. I did deal with a lot of kids though! Makes sense to me. For the most part people are what they are conditioned to be. I think an added problem is the graphic nature of some of the games that serves to desensitize young people to blood, guts and death. Some of them are horrific, IMO, depicting a guy's head being blown off with blood splattering everywhere. If young kids are sitting around playing these games or interacting with someone by texting on a cell phone and artificially replacing body language with "emoticons", it's no wonder they have a hard time relating to being normal. But, it's great business for shrinks. A lot of the ADD in kids is just a kid who is too smart for the dumbed down school system. When they are bored, they get diagnosed as ADD and the school system wants them to be drugged into stupidity so they fit in. Another problem is a lack of physical activity in kids. In that regard John may be right on with the video game thing. If kids are not out running around they end up with a lot of pent up energy. It is not as much the game but what they are not doing with their body. Do they really even have "recess" anymore? I am sure the nanny state has taken out all of the actual exercise equipment like the monkey bars and the horizontal ladders. This is another case where my idea of a video game connected to a real exercise machine might end up being the best of both worlds. I am not talking about that stupid WII where you are just waving your arm around, I mean something like a bow flex, a ramp adjusting treadmill or a real rowing machine. |
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