Do you enjoy the game? The game gives us a sense of pleasure and accomplishment. We can also relieve stress through games. However, too much water drowns the miller. Excessive game addiction not only ruins the lives of addicts, but also causes crimes and social woes. I think game addiction should be classified as a disease.

      Firstly, game addiction has negative effects on brain waves. The human brain is divided into alpha, beta, cetapha, and delta. Beta and Alpha are EEG waves that come out when they are awake. Beta waves come out when you open your eyes. Also, when sleeping, the slow brain waves theta and delta waves come out. In 2016, Professor Jung Suk Choi of the Department of Mental Health Medicine at the Boramae Hospital in Seoul, Korea, found that the beta wave of Internet game addicts decreased for the first time in the world. When the beta waves decrease, symptoms such as decreased attention are appeared. In addition, there are studies that add to the game brain structure changes like the brain structure of drug or gambling addicts.

      Secondly, game addiction makes real life impossible. In 2018, the World Health Organization, WHO, included game addiction in the International Classification of Diseases, ICD. They identified gaming addiction as gaming disorder and defined it as a recurrent behavioral pattern. Then the industry related to the game industry rebelled. It was their claim that enjoying the game was a disease. Game addicts, however, are accompanied by the desired disorder of control by putting the game as a priority over other things. They spend most of their daily life playing games and are extremely anxious if they can not play games. It has negative effects on health. It may lead to lack of sleep, loss of appetite, and problems in interpersonal relationships due to changes in life patterns. Therefore, game addiction can not be treated solely as a personal hobby.

      Lastly, most game addicts commit a heinous crime without controlling impulses. For instance we see in the news each year that game addicts commit murder against their families or strangers. It is a mental illness problem that it is too easy to feel anger and can not control impulse. If you are addicted to violent games, you become obsessed with violent acts and language, confusing reality and virtuality. These are the crime of game addicts in reality.

      As such, game addiction degrades electroencephalogram, interferes with daily life, and causes offense. In conclusion, game addiction should be classified as a disease. For personal health and social safety, when playing games, you should be able to control yourself and relive yourself of stress and become a positive hobby.