Gaming Is Good for Your Health: Self-Medicating With Games

GeekDad
12 min readApr 21, 2020

Research now backs up everything we geeks already knew: Gaming is GOOD for you! From improving your mental health, pain management, and even boosting rehabilitation after surgery, science is proving more and more how gaming has the potential to do great things for your health. The secret lies in “how” you self-medicate with games, both computer games AND tabletop.

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