I tried to find a link on pubmed about depression and gaming. "Depressive symptoms and suicidal are associated to screen time induced poor sleep, digital devic

I tried to find a link on pubmed about depression and gaming. "Depressive symptoms and suicidal are associated to screen time induced poor sleep, digital device night use, and mobile phone dependency." (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29499467/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29499467/) This other study (http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27290/7/27290_Kuss.pdf http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27290/7/27290_Kuss.pdf) seems to show some association between depression and addictive use of video games (The criteria for addiction is not about length but rather about how the behavior is effecting the person life). It should be noted however that social media has a slightly higher association with depression. I doubt there is evidence that eight hours or more of weekly gaming would be any kind of evidence of depression for age groups 16 and up. If a person, of any age group, uses games or social media to the point where it prevents them from function in society and they don't sleep, then that is likely associated with risk of depression. Not 100%, but maybe with a pearson correlation coefficient of r=0.25. Now I should really stop writing on HN and get some sleep before people called me depressed.