I was an addict

Q1a) What are some of the earliest signs mentioned in the article to indicate that a person is addicted to gaming?

When a person is addicted to games, they would skip meals and lose sleep. He/She also would start to skip school to have time. He/She would introduce his avatar's name and call himself that. Then, he/she would constantly talking about the game and imagined things. In order to buy the games or the consoles for the games, they would save money in order to buy them.

Q1b) State some of the methods listed by the author to overcome the addiction to gaming.

Marrisa Yeo, the author, asked her mother to lock up the computer and prevent her from playing. She tried to avoid computer games and socialise more instead. The topics are not games and are irrelevant to games.

Q2) What are some of your reactions after reading this article? If a close friend of yours confesses to you that he/she is addicted to online games, what would your advice to him/her be?

After reading this article, I realise that I am a bit like a game addict in the past. (except that those symptoms do not happen on me). I used to have this weird thinking: "All work and no play, made Jack a very dull boy." So in order to strike a "balance", I played as long as I worked. There would be such things lke " Five more minutes, mum!" Play become "heavier" than work.
Excuses were often made up so during PSLE, the last day for Science, I played online games for about 4 hours and 2 hours of homework. In the end, the results I believed to be A* become A. I also wore glasses during Secondary 1 due to excessive use of the eyes. I quit online games and that's that.

If my close friend confessed to me that he/she is addicted to online games, I will use myself as a prime example. The school I always wanted to go unfulfilled! I would tell him/her the consequences. Then, lock up the computer. Hide it if you have to and make sure only your mother or father knows where it is. I would also try to help him/her find interests back to study and make sure he/she struggled his/her way up again.