stressed by your work want to play some video
games before bed to relax be careful and don't make the same mistakes that I did it is entirely
possible to combine wonderful gaming experience with a stressful work and this channel is
going to help you to achieve this here we go hi everyone welcome to my channel serum play this
is noi just to give you a bit of my background I may not look like one but I am a lawyer and no no
no no no no no no not like you but more like you working in a top tie
r European Law Firm I am
very stressed for the past 12 years I've been working more than 12 hours a day and staying
alert on my mobile phone 247 the issue is not only the long hours but also the intensity of
the work lawyers are like top managers in any company where basically fixers clients only call
you when something goes terribly terribly wrong and needs very urgent fixing and your bosses will
assign test to you that you are not capable of of handling believe me they expect you to deliv
er a
perfect quality job and do it in less time than you actually need every day is like going to a
college exam that you have not prepared yourself for at all and you know you cannot fail you get
an idea of how this world works when I arrive home at 10 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. each day I'd be
usually desperate in need of some gaming session to compensate myself for having survived one more
day and of course to relax a bit as well I would usually go for AAA games as I had a little time
and I wan
ted to feel self-realized by beating every big title there is in the market I played
most of the Assassin Creed games Zelda God of War the wi 3 like a dragon series Etc everything
they can find out there this little time I had before going to bed was like a sanctuary to
me and I treasured it very much if any day I couldn't play because I had to work through the
night which happened quite often by the way I would feel so sad as if I had wasted an entire
day in my life does this sound a bell
to you however about one year ago things suddenly started
to not feel right I started to feel dizzy at work had hard time to concentrate and felt permanently
exhausted sometimes I even couldn't sleep this didn't make sense to me because my work is the
same and in fact after 12 years I was more than used to it so I I didn't understand why until one
day my wife told me while I was playing Elder ring she said hey honey your face is red and you are
sweating a lot then I noticed that my muscles
were tense my breath was short and my throat had
gone dry because I didn't drink anything for 2 hours the problem was suddenly very clear to me
instead of reducing my stress games were adding to it with my lifestyle working hard in the day
and playing hard at night it basically meant that my mind and body were permanently stressed out
and weren't getting any rest at all and because I went to bed immediately after playing I was
carrying over all the stress and negative energy of the games di
rectly to my sleep day after day
the worst of all is that I wasn't even aware of this if you or any of your loved ones has this
habit please do check whether this is happening to you or to that person as well because the
player he herself usually do not realiz this of you know how sustained stress can damage you in
every aspect of your life wor performance at work episodes of depression mood iness it can increase
risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes hsdd if you don't know what that
is look it up it's
a serious issue I considered quitting gaming and I actually quit for a while unfortunately
it worked I went to bed in a better mood I had better sleeping quality and stopped feeling so
tired I was more motivated at work and wanted to do more more outdoor activities but then I
also realized that I was not I am not ready to gave up [Music] gaming I did some research and
found out that not all games produce the same level of stress and in fact there are some games
that seem
to be stress relieving for instance there are scientific studies that demonstrate
is that fear games and highly competitive games will produce stress whereas puzzle games and
MMOs are generally stress relieving moreover and this is my personal opinion just like there
are healing music healing novels healing movies and seral there must be healing games as well I
personally experienced this with several games such as Pokemon Zelda and Stone Age they gave
me energy and great memories which al
lowed me to endure some hardships I had to go through when
I was a child you see if music novels movies which are paive entertainments can heal a person how
much more can an interactive game [Music] do following these thoughts I adjusted a little bit
my routine I still play some stressful triaa games but I change to a stress relieving or healing
game half an hour or 45 minutes before going to bed happily this routine worked I was able to
continue experimenting to the fullest extent any game
I wanted to play without taking heat from
their stressfulness again if you are watching this I definitely encourage you to try it out
the only problem is that there's no industry standards or ratings on how stressful a game
is and you will have to test out each game by yourself unless you subscribe to me because
luckily for you my friend I am here to help I will make a series of videos where I will rate
the most popular games based on certain aspect of the game and my own gameplay experien
ce to
provide you with the guidance on how stressful or healing the game would be of course everyone has
a different feeling when it comes to stressfulness so please feel free to leave your comments if you
do not agree with my reading and I will be happy to listen to your opinions and to discuss with
you okay friends thank you for watching see you [Music] soon [Music] [Music] m
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