the amount of time for gaming. and it keeps increasing. it can cause several health problems, physical as well as mental. according to the w.h.o., the characteristics of gaming disorder are very similar to substance use disorders and gambling disorder, but not everyone agrees. according to a 2020 study co-authored by american psychologist chris ferguson, there is a lack of consensus on the issue of video game addiction. about 60.8% of scholars surveyed agreed pathological game cog be a mental health problem. 34% were skeptical. it s an issue that scholars have really been arguing about for probably 30 years. and what has happened is there are all these questions about it that are unresolved in this community. even as basic of is this a real thing? reporter: for years, china, the world s largest video games market has worried about the impact of games, blaming it for rising rates of nearsightedness,