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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ConcreteBuddha" data-source="post: 491242" data-attributes="member: 3139">Currently, my brother-in-law is an EQ addict. He is 21, lives at home, doesn't attend school, have a job or any real-life friends besides his girlfriend of 5 years. He plays EQ for at least 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Which he has done for the past year.)I understand that he has connections on EQ. I understand that EQ is where he is getting his self-esteem. When he's in the world of EQ, he is important, is respected, and has an enormous amount of time and effort already devoted to the game. He is L65, and people online respect that.The father and mother are going nuts. The problem is that they are incompetent with anything that requires real-world discipline (such as pulling the plug and/or medical treatment). This situation is really hurting my wife, but she does not have the authority to get them to go see a counselor/psychiatrist.They are a dysfunctional family, but I cannot force them to change. They disregard and ignore problems until the problems blow up in their faces. This procrastination is indictative of the family, and I fear that in this case, it will end badly unless someone steps in to fix the problem. ...All of the above is to say that I can understand Ben Stein's predicament. I do not fault the game. However, addiction can manifest itself in multitudes of ways. I definitely think that my brother-in-law is addicted. He has all of the classic symptoms of an addiction, including withdrawal, isolation, and inability to function in the real-world to such an extent that he never leaves the house.</blockquote>

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