10
Jul
What starts as harmless entertainment can sometimes spiral into something far more consuming. What harm could there be in playing a few online games to unwind? This is the primary thought with which one of my close friends started playing online games. But slowly, almost without noticing, a few online games turned into hours of game play, days blurred, the outside world faded, screen time ballooned to several hours a day, friendships slipped away, work suffered. The breaking point came only when mental health had started dwindling; hypertension cripped in; and normal behavior has been replaced by irritability and silence. revealing just…