Definitely a symptom and not a cause. Like people that drink heavily in university then don't later once they have obligations. My university roommate played

Definitely a symptom and not a cause. Like people that drink heavily in university then don't later once they have obligations. My university roommate played video games nonstop. Then he graduated, got a job (as a video game developer) and has a wife and three kids. It's like any addiction, its filling a void, but the object of abuse is not what's to blame.