Spotlight on mental health after teen kills mother who rebuked him for PUBG addiction- The New Indian Express

By ANI

NEW DELHI: Days after a 16-year-old boy, who was hooked on taking part in cell video games, shot his mom lifeless for scolding him over his PUBG habit in Lucknow, specialists on Saturday expressed issues about psychological well being issues associated to cellphone habit.

Dr Jyoti Kapoor, senior psychiatrist and founder, Manasthali providers mentioned, “Cell video games haven’t solely hampered the bodily progress of a kid but additionally saved him unaware of the realities of the world.”

She highlighted that well being points like weight acquire, laziness, imaginative and prescient issues are on an increase due to the overuse of digital gadgets and thus it impacts the psychological well being of the people as properly.

“Video games like PUBG, Conflict of Clans, and Pokemon go amongst others are alluring youngsters by means of their day-to-day development in graphics and gestures and they’re giving extra precedence to those video games as in comparison with different actions. Well being points like weight acquire, laziness, imaginative and prescient downside due to the overuse of digital gadgets. To not point out, it has additionally affected the relationships, as youngsters are so misplaced of their cell taking part in video games that now they don’t choose spending time with their households and shut ones,” Dr Kapoor mentioned.

The physician additional suggested elders and oldsters to impart data of the dangerous results of digital video games to their youngsters and encourage them to participate in bodily actions.

Dr Kapoor mentioned, “It will be significant for elders and oldsters to impart the data of dangerous results of those video games to their youngsters. They need to be properly conscious of the unfavorable impacts of the habit in the direction of these video games. Even when they’re taking part in, there ought to be a time restrict to be able to save them from affecting their well being. Encourage them to participate in different sports activities in order that they will discover one thing else to do as an alternative of sticking to those video games.”

One other professional, Dr Shweta Sharma, Medical Psychologist and Founding father of Mansa World Basis for Psychological Well being mentioned that youngsters and cellphones have turn out to be depending on one another thereby impacting the psychological and bodily well being of youngsters.

“In immediately’s occasions, youngsters and cellphones have turn out to be depending on one another however there are nonetheless some disadvantages of the Web on the youngsters’s bodily and psychological well being,” Dr Sharma mentioned.

“Normally, kind of video games or content material of video on YouTube, are majorly associated to aggression and subsequently the youngsters aren’t in a position to channelise it any constructive approach,” the physician mentioned.

“Therefore, this results in an outburst in the direction of their mother and father, siblings or on friends. The main target of those cell video games is a smooth goal,” she mentioned.

The physician additionally identified, “A number of video video games spotlight the advantages of driving at excessive pace, making use of weapons which have a unfavorable impact on their psychological well being. Subsequently, it’s important that all of us ought to maintain what our youngsters are watching and doing on cellphones.”

Dr Sharma highlighted that it’s a mistaken follow by the mother and father to interact their youngsters in cellphones to be able to full their work or family chores.

“Generally, we to be able to work with out disturbance, give telephones to youngsters, make them engaged in watching cellphones which isn’t proper. We have now to alter this behavior. We are able to make them have interaction in bodily actions by going to stadiums, playgrounds and by partaking in brisk strolling in order that they might cease or cut back their habit to mobiles, web utilization and their future can get safe,” she mentioned.

In a stunning incident, a 16-year-old boy, who was hooked on taking part in cell video games, shot his mom lifeless for scolding him over his PUBG habit. The boy later locked his 10-year-old sister in a room and sat together with his mom’s lifeless physique at his home in Aldico Colony of Lucknow’s PGI space, Uttar Pradesh Police mentioned on June 8.