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According to Brian Dudley, the centre's chief executive, said: "He was staying online for seven or eight
hours at a time. We developed a treatment for him which followed the 12-step [abstinence] approach,
but you can't tell someone never to use the internet again. He had eating issues, he wasn't eating
properly. He did very well. He has the mechanisms now to cope with it.

According to Peter Smith, another counsellor at Broadway Lodge, said: "It's not unusual for people to
get so obsessed with online gaming that they forget to eat and drift towards an anorexic and
undernourished state. You can play online with people around the world, so it can be at odd times of
the day – when it's 5pm in Chicago or evening in Japan. You have a relationship with characters in the
game that give you an artificial feeling, created by your body's natural endorphins, when you have killed
some monster or solved a problem."

According to ELSPA The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association denied that playing
online games could lead to addiction. Its director general, Michael Rawlinson, said: "Playing video games
is becoming increasingly mainstream in the UK and we firmly believe in the positive impact playing
games can have."

According to Nikita Bier, the founder of TBH famously said that most people downloaded a new app for
only 3 reasons.

1. It helps them save/make money (WhatsApp)

2. It helps them find a mate (Snapchat)

3. It allows them to unplug from reality in a big way (Fortnite)