“Say you have a 30-minute train ride, set your alarm on your device for 30 minutes,” says Strohman, noting that you should turn the game off at that 30 minute marker no matter where you are in the game (or in your commute). You can also use your phone’s screen time program ( Android has one, too), which Strohman recommends “whether monitoring as a parent or monitoring yourself.” Create time limitations and set an alarmīoth Strohman and Chandler suggest setting strict guidelines for mobile game usage. The problem that Chandler most encounters as a result of too much mobile gaming is sleep disturbance. If our behaviors and our thoughts about them are out of line, it’s easier to change our thoughts than our behavior, but it’s the behavior we have to focus on.” Key risks: Bad sleep, squandered intimacy and gaming as self-medicating On some level you think it's bad and so you're having to talk yourself out of feeling bad. “This is a powerful psychological theory: resolution of Cognitive Dissonance. “When we have the opportunity to rationalize a behavior, that's a sign you have to work against it,” says Chandler. The moment we start rationalizing our behavior to ourselves is the moment we should know a change is needed. “Is it really so bad if I’m addicted to phone games?” I’d ask myself, countering, “It’s not like I’m abusing drugs. But a few weeks later I got bored and downloaded a new game - and another, and another.

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