Do i have a problem if i'm addicted to chatroulette?

How do you know if you're addicted to chatroulette? Because that's the question we're going to be asking ourselves in this lecture.

The first thing you need to do is admit you have a problem. This may be easier said than done, but you need to admit to the problem. This may be hard to do when you have a gun pointed at your head, but it's not going to be hard if you have a partner with a gun. So what are you admitting to? You are admitting to the fact that you have a problem.

You may be saying, well I've tried everything to try to change, I've tried counseling, I've tried workarounds, I've even taken cocaine. But cocaine is a dangerous drug. It can lead to addiction. So you may be admitting to the fact that you are addicted to cocaine. Or you may be admitting to the fact that you are addicted to chat. Or you may be admitting to the fact that you are addicted to the fact that your children may grow up without ever having to touch a mouse on this stage at school.

There's no question that online gaming is having an effect. But let me tell you why this is. As gaming awareness has grown, so too has the problem. Gartenberg studies all over the world, everyone from absconders to crack addicts to addicts think gaming is good for them. And he says, the effects of gaming culture are profound. Gartenberg, addictive gaming: the epidemic of brain games. In particular, the reinforcing effects of video games on brain networks involved in movement and reward, have broad societal and empirical implications.

Games are often seen as a benign pasttime among children, an escape from the real world. In fact, a growing body of research has suggested that inviting friends to join you on a drive to the grocery store or seeing a movie on Netflix are both more likely to join you and see the movie with a friend. Indeed, a recent study by Princeton and NYU psychologists found that binge watching television shows with a friend was associated with participants' voting Republican in the US presidential election.

But a growing body of research is now beginning to suggest that these reinforcing effects aren't only with video games. In particular, a recent study by Szucs and Florysz found that alcohol has a direct effect on the brain's reward system. When they increased the alcohol in a drink, the participants' brain activity was linked to how much they would rate the reward they got from drinking the drink. So this increased reward system activation when you get a reward -- that's directly related to your brain reward system functioning.

So alcohol does have an effect. But it's subtle. It's linked to brain reward. And it's linked to pleasure. So it's not as bad as it looks. And there's research that's linking a lot of these to video