Online Game Addiction, This Islamic Boarding School Provides a Rehabilitation Place

The World Health Organization has officially said that addiction to playing video games is a disease. Addictive games can cause a person to lose mental balance. Many cases cause players to be sent to rehabilitation due to addiction to playing video games.

In this era of rampant mobile games, many children or teenagers are crazy about playing video games. Some even drain their parents’ savings to buy skins that are quite expensive. Not only that, many children are now whining to buy internet quota instead of snacking on food.

As a result of this, a boarding school named Nurul Firdaus took the initiative to open rehabilitation for people who are addicted to playing online games. This Islamic boarding school, located in Ciamis, West Java, was suddenly visited by many people who wanted to participate in rehabilitation from addiction to playing video games.

Reported from GameBox, Caretaker of Ponpes Nurul Firdaus, Dr. Gumilar explained that students who are rehabilitated because of addiction to playing games tend to behave inappropriately. Usually people who are infected will get nervous easily if they don’t play online games. In addition, he also forgot about his obligations, even forgot to take care of his body.

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Dr. Gumilar also explained how his Ponpes handles patients who want to be rehabilitated. There are three types of therapy. The first is Cognitive Behavior Therapy, where this therapy modifies the patient’s negative thoughts to become more positive. The second is the Motivational Interview, this therapy motivates each patient where the decision is entirely in the hands of the patient. Usually this is used for patients aged teenagers or young adults. Then the third is behavioral therapy by involving environmental modification to reduce the patient’s motivation, this is useful for inhibiting the patient’s dependence. In addition to these three methods, Dr. Gumilar also said that there are other methods that help the patient’s healing process, namely the bath method, Ruqyah and also hypnotivation therapy.