Girl “Nine” In Rehab after Aggressive Obsession with “Fortnite” Game

Gaming is a new malady affecting kids worldwide and though it isn’t new literally, the latest concepts of gaming creating the problem are definitely an upcoming dangerous trend. Interactive games.

1Multiplayer gaming is trapping youngsters into an addiction

Multiplayer gaming and action games with their photorealistic animation like “Fortnite” have well and truly trapped youngsters even as low as seven to nine, teens and those in their early twenties to a point where even the World Health Organization has issued a statement about gaming disorder. The latest extreme example is of a nine year old in Britain who even wet herself playing 24 hours a day because she wouldn’t go to the toilet. But it gets worse and shocking because she had to be put into rehab.

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2Nine-year-old girl addicted to “Fortnite” wets herself while gaming

The nine-year-old girl a primary student whose name has been withheld was addicted to the game “Fortnite” playing it for almost 10 hours a day and sometimes throughout the night. Her father reached his limit of his endurance when he found a urine soaked cushion she was sitting on. What she did next when he tried stopping her was crazy.

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3She even tries hitting her father

When her father tried to stop her by taking away her X Box, she lashed out at him and even tried hitting him. Her mother stated in an interview “'My husband saw her light on in the night and found her sitting on a urine-soaked ¬cushion playing the game, she was so hooked to the game she wouldn't even go to the toilet.'

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4He repeatedly dozed off in class

The little girl has now been put into intensive therapy to fight her addiction for playing the survival game “Fortnite.” She was so obsessed by it that she would secretly play the game at night and would not even get up to go to the toilet preferring to wet herself right there on her cushion. She was also observed repeatedly dozing off at school.

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5Her parents purchased an Xbox but never bargained for what would happen

The parents of the girl had purchased an Xbox in July but little did they know that she would soon become addicted to a game that is being touted as the latest in gaming. Her addiction made her wet herself because she just could not bring herself to move away from the screen. Her mother said “We had no idea when we let her play the game, of the ¬addictive nature or the impact it could have on her mental health.”

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