Psychologist warns against Pokémon addiction

Pok?mon Go was developed for players to find all characters and challenge newcomers.

It was supposed to be a game that went on and on, characters always developing and transforming.

The game was about rank and strength, making your Pokemon stronger and better.

When contacted yesterday for a comment on an incident where a young woman was robbed and raped in Maloney after pursuing a Pok?mon character, Mora said it was an addiction if one loses their sense of self and all sense of space, security and all sense of relationship with their surroundings to follow “things.” “I don’t know if it is a crutch... don’t these people have jobs? Obviously you are attached to it so you can’t do without finding these things. I don’t know if some people are excited by a challenge because it could be a challenge.

It is supposed to get in touch with people, but I am not sure how much in touch you are with people as much as wanting to win and say that you have found a pokemon in the forest or so on, I don’t know,” she said.

Mora said it was a challenge for people who did not find their lives challenging enough.

“There might be young people who do not really have a life and are looking for something to hold on to. There is the competitive nature of the whole game, and people’s security is compromised,” she said.

Another psychologist, Franklyn Dolly, said just like drugs and alcohol, people could get hooked on games.

“There are other areas where people can become addicted and social media is one of those things. People are on social media at 4 or 5 o’clock am because they want to see how many messages they can get.

It is about how popular I can be, so they take more and more risks to be popular. “The environment is not a safe place to go. What is someone doing following Pokemon in a field or woods? But, they don’t see the danger because they are seeking to get closer to their goal,” Dolly said.

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