Unit 44: Internet Addiction and Gaming Use Disorder (Lessons 1601-1640) · Course Catalog

1. An Overview of Internet Addiction and Gaming Use Disorder
   Understanding internet or gaming addiction is not simply about laziness, but rather a cycle formed by rewarding stimulation, escaping stress, and life imbalance.
2. Symptoms and manifestations of internet addiction
   Identify key signs such as uncontrolled use, staying up late, procrastination, offline anxiety, relationship withdrawal, and decline in learning and work performance.
3. The core features of game use barriers
   Seeing game-centric behavior, difficulty stopping, continuous overtime, and impaired real-world functioning helps learners develop awareness earlier.
4. Causes and risk factors of internet addiction
   Understanding the sources of risk from stress, loneliness, family communication, sense of self-worth, attention deficit, and environmental triggers.
5. Diagnostic assessment and severity grading
   The severity of the problem can be assessed gently by considering factors such as time spent using the problem, difficulty in controlling it, physical and mental exhaustion, and impact on real-world functioning.
6. The psychological mechanisms of short video addiction
   Understand how instant feedback, algorithmic pushes, and random rewards keep people swiping and reduce simplistic self-blame.
7. Social media dependence and comparative anxiety
   Seeing how likes, follows, and comparisons affect one's sense of self-worth, one should learn to gradually bring attention back to real life.
8. A sense of accomplishment and belonging in online games
   Understanding the appeal of levels, tasks, teams, and roles helps learners find alternative support in reality.
9. Circadian rhythm disorder and use of late night
   Seeing how staying up late online affects sleep, mood, concentration, and physical recovery, gradually rebuild your sleep schedule.
10. The impact of internet use on learning and work
    Identify patterns of distraction, procrastination, task avoidance, and decreased efficiency, and rebuild a sense of action through small steps.
11. Emotional avoidance and internet use
    Many addictive behaviors stem from a desire to temporarily escape stress, loneliness, loss, shame, or feelings of powerlessness.
12. Loneliness and online addiction
    Seeing how online companionship can alleviate loneliness may also lead to fewer real-world connections, and we should learn to gradually rebuild real relationships.
13. The relationship between anxiety, depression and internet addiction
    Understanding that emotional problems can lead to overuse, which in turn can exacerbate feelings of depression, anxiety, and self-blame.
14. Attention deficit and fragmented information
    Recognize how short bursts of stimulation can weaken sustained focus, and use environmental tidying and short tasks to help the brain regain stability.
15. Impulse control and instant gratification
    When faced with the impulse to "immediately open your phone," practice taking a gentle pause before acting.
16. Family Conflicts and Increased Internet Use
    Understand that arguments, control, and humiliation can exacerbate avoidance; learn to adjust together through rules, communication, and companionship.
17. Support Focus for Adolescent Internet Addiction
    Pay attention to the stress, relationships, and self-worth behind your child's situation, and provide support with stable boundaries and alternative activities.
18. Internet addiction and real-world pressures in adults
    This study explores how work stress, difficulties in intimate relationships, and a sense of emptiness in life drive adults to repeatedly escape into the online world.
19. Shame, self-blame, and resistance to change
    It helps learners transform the self-blame of "I'm so bad" into an understanding of the pattern and the next steps.
20. Identification and recording of network desires
    Record the times, emotions, and scenarios when you want to play, have fun, or escape, and find entry points for early intervention.
21. Increased motivation: Why I want to change
    Allow yourself to waver, honestly compare the short-term comfort and long-term costs of the internet, and find your reasons for change.
22. Cognitive-behavioral strategies: Trigger—Thought—Behavior
    By recording triggers, automated thoughts, and usage behaviors, we can gradually build safer and more realistic alternative responses.
23. Digital Boundaries and Environmental Design
    Reduce the use of automation by turning off push notifications, moving the device away, setting screenless areas, and fixing usage periods.
24. Mobile phone usage time management
    Change restrictions from strict prohibitions to actionable arrangements, and use time windows, reminders, and reviews to help yourself stabilize.
25. Game time limit and exit plan
    Pre-setting end points, alternative activities, and support reminders reduces the risk of losing control due to the "play one more game" mentality.
26. Pause practice in short videos
    Practice pausing before the automatic slide, and become aware of your physical sensations, emotional needs, and what you truly want to escape from.
27. Establishment of offline alternative activities
    Gradually regain a sense of support in offline life through exercise, crafts, tidying up, walking, reading, and real-life communication.
28. Sleep restoration and nighttime screen management
    Start by preparing for bedtime, setting a fixed time to turn off your device, and keeping your bedroom screen-free, allowing your body to relearn how to rest safely.
29. Family Negotiation and Usage Rules
    Help families turn arguments into negotiations by establishing clear, stable, and non-humiliating rules for online use.
30. Professional help and referral resources
    To understand the role of psychological counseling, family therapy, psychiatric assessment, and school support in severe internet addiction.
31. High-risk scenarios and recurrence pathways
    Identify how stress, loneliness, staying up late, arguments, and task avoidance reactivate the cycle of overuse.
32. Relapse Prevention Program
    Listing warning signs, support contacts, alternative activities, and emergency steps in advance makes recovery more prepared.
33. Rapid return to track after the pullback
    View pullbacks as reminders to review past performance, not as signs of complete failure. Stop further losses and start afresh.
34. Real-world connection and social function restoration
    Start with low-pressure interpersonal interactions and gradually restore a sense of connection, participation, and warmth in real life.
35. Rebuilding the rhythm of learning and work
    Small tasks, fixed time periods, completion records, and environmental organization help learners regain a sense of real-world control.
36. Physical activity and emotional stability
    Help your body recover slowly from prolonged screen stimulation through light exercise, stretching, walking, and a regular diet.
37. Reconstruction of self-worth
    Gradually relinquish your sense of self-worth from online performance, game levels, and the opinions of others, and rediscover your true self.
38. Long-term maintenance of family support systems
    Help family members consistently provide companionship, boundaries, and encouragement to avoid repeatedly falling into a cycle of control, blame, and disappointment.
39. Long-term self-management and digital life balance
    Learn to put the internet back in its tool position and make sleep, relationships, work, and physical care the center of your life again.
40. Summary of the course on Internet Addiction and Gaming Use Disorder
    Review your personal triggers, risk scenarios, support resources, and next steps to turn recovery into a path that can be continuously practiced.
41. Traditional Mandala Course (Supplementary Course)
    Traditional mandala supplementary courses use images, colors, and quiet contemplation as entry points to help learners rediscover inner order, physical peace, and gentle self-connection outside of their overstimulated digital lives.
42. Course Assessment on Internet Addiction and Gaming Use Disorder (Lessons 1601-1640)
    The course assessment is used to review learning outcomes, changes in practice, and areas where support is still needed. Learners are requested to complete the assessment honestly and with good intentions so that they can still see their progress after the course ends.