Gaming addiction is no laughing matter. Take the case of Jaysen Perkins for instance. He used to spend up to six hours a day gaming. While many of us may think that this is not a huge deal, the reality is that it actually is. It can ruin your social life, hurt grades for kids in school, plus introduce a whole bunch of other problems as well.

The 16-year-old has spent the last year coping with a video game addiction, in this case to the military role-playing game Socom II.

“I probably noticed a problem about a month into playing Socom,” Perkins says. “There’s something about it — I kept wanting to go back.”

Jaysen’s mother, Rebecca, also noticed the change in her son.

“Jaysen would get up to play in the middle of the night,” she says. “I guess the behavior was addictive — he was trying to play it any way he could.”