For the most part, I avoid video games. However, every now and then I get the itch to download and try one of the yahoo games from yahoo.com. Inexplicably, the urge to play one of these games directly coincides with being stuck in …

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Can Video Games that Imitate Life be Beneficial to Your Mental Well-being?

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  1. I recently played this game as well and mentioned in my blog how playing these games are depressing because it made me feel less good about my own life when realizing that I am stuck in a place in my life thats like the begining of the game..dead end job and no money and so on. So would playing these cause the opposite to result in some cases?

  2. It can be hard to give up video games but I’m not going to!

  3. Im not sure if it’s good for my mental well-being . But my life, unfortunately looks too much like,Diablo which is Spanish for the devil or demon. Because I can never visit anybody’s house and go inside of the house and actually socialize which the characters in the Devil for the Playstation don’t really socialize either so my life in my neighborhood is too much of a spitnimage of that game almost to the point of me being in a prison, where we all live in our houses as though our houses were gaols.

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