What should parents know about Pokemon GO

Recently appeared game Pokemon GO is called the most popular game of all times and peoples. Despite the fact that in Russia it is not officially released, but users have found ways to download the game. Many it disappointed: they found the game boring. However, someone, especially children and youth, became interested in Pokemon GO, seriously.

It is known that security was faced with another side of the game: players sometimes lose their sense of reality and the real dangers that can lead to tragic consequences.

What parents need to know about Pokemon GO? About this talk with a clinical psychologist Nikita by Janochkina, a member of the Siberian society of Orthodox psychologists. Nikita works at Novosibirsk regional clinical narcological dispensary and deals with the treatment of dependencies.





That for an animal such — pokemon? Tell us where they come from and what do they want?

In the early noughties was a very popular Japanese show "Pokemon". Soon a wave of pokemonmay swept the world and students from all corners of the planet have become major fans of the series.

This is the wave of the company "Nintendo" released a series of computer games of the same name, in which you had to collect pokemon, developing abilities of monsters constant workouts. Collecting all the pokémon, the player became the owner of their abilities, feeling of power and strength. From the point of view of spirituality — this is very dangerous, because such selfish and prideful impulses could migrate from the virtual to the real world.

Here's an entirely true story. 16 December 1997, Japan's national television broadcast a series of "E-warrior Porygon". After viewing the famous 38th series of about 700 children under the age of 3 years old was sent to hospital in a serious condition similar to an epileptic fit.

The plot of the cartoon characters find themselves inside the computer, with the aim of destroying the virus. Pikachu threw lightning directly on the virus, resulting in an explosion happens. On the screen all this action is accompanied by rapid change in two contrasting colors — blue and red. Colors flickered with a frequency of 10-12 Hz for a few seconds.

In the end, after watching the cartoon the children complained of dizziness and nausea. Some among the small audience had cramps, it was noted vision problems, and some of them lost consciousness.

The incident has prompted the Ministry of health of Japan to the creation of a special Commission of doctors and other professionals. It was found that seizures in children are provoked by bright flashes. The administration of the channel TV Tokyo suspended the show, officially apologized, but after a few months, "Pokemon" returned to the screens.





Novelty "Pokemon GO" is that there are two worlds — real and virtual. Running through the streets, the user of the game staring at the screen of the gadget tries to catch a pocket monster.

Today on the streets of many cities you can meet weird people, not coming off from the screens of their smartphones. Absorbed in the gameplay of pushing and thrusting, they often run across the road in the wrong place, putting their lives in serious danger. It turns out that if we are adults it's hard to resist a new temptation, then what about the children.

"Pokemon GO" is a social fever. This is a logical reflection of the infantilization of society. Weak-willed people are becoming more and for them, the devil invents more and more sophisticated ways of escape from reality.

 

What are the dangers of this new craze?

The connection of the two worlds in "Pokemon GO" blurs the line between artificial reality and real. Virtuality is implanted in the consciousness and becomes part of the individual. It is inevitable shizofreniya inner "I" of the player. This is especially true of children, with more immature because of their age mentality.

Similar games to distort the thinking of man, not taught to think creatively, and technologically. There is a problem, the ultimate result and money. Programmed thinking and creativity remain underdeveloped. Leave the emotion, the person begins to think like a robot.

Very high risk of addiction from the gameplay. Computer games, social networking, Internet — all this is akin to psychoactive substances like alcohol and tobacco — can cause strong addiction.

In "Pokemon GO" contains all the necessary elements of an addictive player:

  • a sense of excitement,
  • competition
  • the development of abilities.
 

There is no doubt that this game can cause addiction similar to chemical.

Over time, the manifest and the symptoms are:

  • the decline of sentiment
  • anxiety
  • insomnia,
  • dizziness,
  • headaches.
 

After a time, the cyber-dependent loses his job, family, narrow interests. Exclusion often leads to the development of clinically significant depression. Increasingly, from foreign media to see what people are focusing on catching pokemon, got hit by a car, fell into a manhole, climbed high-rise buildings and other hazardous places. The risk to life and health in such cases is obvious.





It is understood that "Pokemon GO" is an effective method for manipulating people. With this technology, at a certain time to collect the necessary number of people and direct them to any point on the map. If these technologies fall into the wrong hands, the consequences can be tragic. Today we are at the beginning of the introduction of these methods of manipulation, it is scary to think what is in store tomorrow for all mankind.

 

What are the General causes of a gambling addiction?

Cyberaddiction is an escape from reality in a world which is alien to everyday problems and fear of being misunderstood or rejected. Computer addiction often occurs in families, where an atmosphere of alienation, where parents often quarrel, where there is a lack of love. If a child does not have and he is left to himself, the virtual space is a kind of refuge from the oppressive feeling of loneliness and feeling of uselessness. In this pseudoreality, he gets a long-awaited praise and recognition. And it does not matter that victories are virtual.

 

Also interesting: the dependence of the phone occurs in emotionally unstable people

How to get rid of dependence and to become free

 

What advice would you give to parents of gamers?

The necessary reassessment of values. It is important that the Foundation of the family was based on the law of love. The family is the place where you are loved. Parents should stop trying to "computerize" the soul of their children and the maximum amount of time to spend with them in the real world. published

 

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©

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