anxiety, and low mood. often, they also experience physical symptoms, in terms of loss of sleep, and that is often because people will be gaming at night to connect with gamers abroad. yeah, so we need to think - about the groups that we are going to start in the new year. this is the only nhs clinic in the uk treating gaming disorder. its patients are spread out across england and wales, and are often treated via video chat, something they have been doing here since way before the pandemic made the practice commonplace. video games are a massive pastime and source of entertainment and connection for people. but when does the amount of time spent playing across the line into problematic behaviour? a recent study concluded that broadly speaking, playing video games is actually good for most people's mental health and well—being, and that playing games has helped lots of people get through the pandemic.