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The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown

posted by martyb on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the leaving-the-basement dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Mr Brown, now 24, dropped out of college and spent the following years at home - gaming, in chat rooms and reading about politics.

He became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.

Mr Brown, from Ashton, Cornwall, says he became increasingly "eccentric" and eventually lost touch with reality.

"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.

...

He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.

7 years. Not bad. Can anyone beat that?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @01:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @01:38PM (#760335)

    These sorts of issues can be just as much the fault of the people who enable this behavior.

    In his case, sure. But some people are retired or just wealthy and can have the same sort of problems. At least in those cases they can afford to take time to figure it out without relying on someone else though.