Natalie Bender

About

It's 2am again. You told yourself one more match, one more episode, one more scroll, and somehow the whole night is gone. The game, or the screen, is the easiest place to be, the one spot where the stress, boredom, or pressure finally goes quiet. But lately it's costing you: sleep, school or work, and the people who keep asking why you're never really there. Maybe you've tried to cut back and felt restless, irritable, or flat without it. You're not lazy and you're not broken. For a lot of people, gaming and the internet became the off switch when life felt like too much, and now it's just hard to put down.