Does gaming improve your mental health or hinder it?

[SanAndreasX]

LegitHyperbole said:

Pemalite said:

Like everything in the world... It 100% depends on the person.
There is a balance to be had.

When you have individuals that devote 100% of their time to gaming to get that dopamine fix, then it's impactful to your mental health, it's a toxic addiction at that point.

Other people may use it as a way to "wind down" after a hard days worth of work, which is actually healthy.

And I think that just sums up and concludes the thread.

I said in the OP to rule out extreme gaming, exteeme anything is bad, you can die from too much water. Let's hear some other peoples experiences or thoughts on the matter before wrapping. As well as my experiences there have been there has been three completely different takes. Even if people use games to wind down that could be a bad thing depending on someone's job or life situation. 

I wanna hear the reasons people have for it impacting their mental health whether negative or positive. 

My Gamecube got me through a lot of personal troubles in 2003-2004. My Switch helped keep my mind calm when I was flying back and forth to minister to my parents in the last years of their lives.