Teen gaming addicts prone to stress, sleep loss, depression – survey

Regardless of whether they were male or female, binge gamers were more likely to report not sleeping as well as others and being more prone to anxiety or even depression, with their education performance lagging in turn. — Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa/dpa-tmn

BERLIN: Teenagers who spend too long fixated on a screen while yanking at a joystick risk not only sleeplessness and falling grades but even depression.

A survey of thousands of adolescents in Hong Kong has found so-called "binge gaming," or spending at least five hours in a row playing computer games, to be "associated with depression, anxiety, and poor sleep."