Published On: Thu, Jan 19th, 2012

Video Games Good For Mental Health..?

Fellow Video Gamers Get Ready to spend more time with your consoles as this news will bring you more game titles into your door step. because now it has been found that Video Gaming is an effective way to combat depression. and the researchers also says that  it might also help to boosting your grades in school.

According to a recent study that has being conducted in Australia about  the mental health of hardcore gamers and casual gamers, they found that the highest percentage of the hardcore gamers, being people who played upwards of 33 hours per week, suffered from anxiety and were also prone to depression. While the casual gamers showed better on the mental health scale overall, with 25 less chance of suffering from a mental condition or disorder,  so in the end the researchers found that it was really the hardcore gamers who benefitted the most from their precious amounts of game time, which they used as a “coping mechanism”.

This is a Great news for all the Gamers around the world to prove to their parents that they can make something out of Playing video games, and they might even bring you some more game titles to help you out.