"Gone into the fire, even said to kill me" After the 21-year-old boy indulged in the script to kill, his mother was afraid

"My son has been on the verge of falling into a rage lately, Doctor, save him." Ms. Wang (pseudonym), who is in her early 50s, looked anxious and dragged her reluctant son into the Clinical Psychology Department of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital.

In recent years, script killing has been widely favored by young people. "Indulging in this kind of offline game, or going into the drama too deeply, may affect physical health, especially psychological problems." On average, our Clinical Psychiatry Department treats patients with mental illness due to script killings every month, who are either depressed, anxious, or even have psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations. Ms. Wang's son is one of them. Director Su Heng said.

Introverted boys have a cheerful personality after playing script killing

As a result, there is a problem with the psychology of game addiction

"My son now does nothing every day, doesn't want to go to school, his normal life is completely disrupted, he doesn't sleep well, he doesn't eat well, he just wants to play with this thing every day." If we don't like him the slightest, he will get angry. Yesterday he actually said that he was going to kill me, and I was so frightened that my heart was still pounding for a long time. Ms. Wang's son, Xiao Liu (pseudonym), is 21 years old and in his junior year.

In the second half of 2020, Xiao Liu began to play script killing through the introduction of friends, "I have a little social fear, from being ashamed to talk to strangers to being able to explain my ideas in front of everyone, it is also a kind of growth, but I didn't think about it later... "

At the beginning, I saw that my son, who usually did not like to socialize, was like a change of people, made a lot of friends, talked more, and his spirit was different. Ms. Wang was happy in her heart and felt that this real-life game was much better than those video games.

After a long time, Ms. Wang's heart slowly sank. Although the son talks a lot, the content of the communication is relatively dark and extreme; he does not talk much about real life and study with his friends, and only communicates the content of the script. Ms. Wang said that sometimes at night, he played late, and his spirit became more and more weak, even if he could fall asleep, he could sometimes hear him shouting in the middle of the night, and he should have nightmares and scream. He is also very emotionally unstable, such as persuading him to play less (script killing) and rest more, he loses his temper, and the look in his eyes, the people around him look at it and feel afraid.

Director Su Heng learned more about the whole process and conducted relevant examinations to determine that this was a state of game addiction and was accompanied by obvious anxiety. After some communication with the psychologist, Xiao Liu slightly recognized the real relationship between some games and reality. "But the real treatment is a long way to go, requiring close cooperation from me, parents, schools and doctors." Director Su Heng said frankly.

The drama was too deep, and the woman was too frightened to sleep

Director Su Heng said that according to relevant reports and patient descriptions, although the script kills, although it is a game, it requires participants to be fully immersed in the role, and requires contact and processing a lot of information in a relatively short period of time to make decisions. One of the attractions of drama lies in contradictions and conflicts. Therefore, the script kill will also have a lot of conflicts, even violent plots. The setting of extreme scenes, the construction of extreme plots, the display of extreme emotions, and the change of extreme personality occupy an important position in the script setting of script killing. And the psychological impact of these contents on people is obvious, especially for adolescents.

The script kills many plots and reversals in just a few hours, so that some of the people involved have a deep experience of the blandness of real life, and then they are more tired of real life. The sense of achievement of virtual, condensed, and instant satisfaction makes people's lives in a state of "high stimulation and continuous orgasm", and once they return to real life, the contrast and gap will make people dissatisfied and contemptuous, and the mood will change significantly.

Director Su Heng said that some of the plots of the script have violence, murder, etc., so that teenagers who are originally timid and not fully mature in mind will take these plots as reality and be frightened. After 4 days, there is no sign of forgetting the horror details, and as soon as the lights are turned off at night, I feel that the murderer is approaching in the dark, so scared that I can't sleep at all, and I am about to collapse! What to do, what to do... This is a young woman who has just joined the work, and her eyes are red and she tells the doctor.

Long-term obsessive immersion can affect health

"After life, it is okay to occasionally play the script to kill, relax the mind and body, but the time must be grasped well, and long-term obsessive immersion is prone to problems." Director Su Heng said that the game may be addictive, manifested as the inability to control the frequency, duration, termination time, etc. of the game behavior, which has become a priority in life. Some people play script killing several days a week, play in the store until three more midnight, often so it will damage their health.

Staying up late for a long time not only causes insomnia, causes endocrine disorders, low immunity, increases the chance of suffering from diseases, but also leads to learning or work efficiency, and if there is insufficient sleep, sleepy eyes and then drive, high-altitude work, etc., it will increase the occurrence of danger; addicts who are difficult to extricate themselves, easy to produce mental and psychological problems, anxiety or depression, and even hallucinations and other psychiatric symptoms, etc., should be paid attention to by all aspects.

Director Su Heng said that his department received patients with psychological problems due to playing script killing, the youngest was a 15-year-old junior high school student, the oldest was 30 years old, and he was a small boss who opened a shop. He suggested that it is best for underage children to participate under the guidance of parents, such as helping to choose the content of the script, and controlling and restricting play time.

Source: Xiaoxiang Morning Post