Hello my name is Michael and I'm 26 years old, I have played video games since I was 5 years old. Now I'm wondering if I'm addicted to video games. If I play them but only play for 1-2 hours but delete them afterwards. The next day I re-download them even though I don't enjoy them at all. I have installed and reinstalled the game 50+ times even though I don't enjoy them. Not a day goes by when I don't look at gaming news on the internet, I have no interest in gaming but I just check the gaming news anyway, that usually is 4+ hours a day of checking gaming news/videos. I'm not like that surfing the internet with anything else. I also think a lot about video games in my head, for example I always think If I should quit multiplayer games and stick with single player(never enjoyed single player that much) It's constant everyday. Can you please help and give me some advice. Thank you.

Michael

Hi Michael. Welcome. Here's the proposed criteria for video game addiction.