In the era of technology and a changing social fabric, cyberbullying and gaming are here to stay, if we don’t understand them better and support our youth. Unlike many physical health-related epidemics that affect populations rapidly and disappear, epidemics related to mental illnesses are sneaky, insidious beasts that silently grow within. Symptoms of mental ailments may not even be apparent until it is too late.
With the help of strong triggers like cyberbullying and gaming, mental illnesses have been silently taking lives worldwide by pushing the victims to take extreme measures like suicide. Cyberbullying and gaming are different, although both may escalat...