How to deal with video game addiction?

We all love to play video games and many studies have shown that apart from entertaining us, today's video games have enormous educational value. But, not all video games are healthy. Many of them have too much violence, and some may even contain porn (Related: porn addiction).

A rapidly growing problem is playing games for too long to a point that it becomes an addiction. Since it is something new, if you show up with your child at the psychiatrist's office, don't be surprised if you fail to convince her or him that there is a problem in the first place. Watch this video to understand why playing even an educational video game beyond a reasonable time period may be addictive and detrimental to mental well being.