GQ and the messed up lives of video game addicts

Inside the leading center for people addicted to video games 

GQ Magazine Interview | Ben Dolnick | September 30, 2016

Often too ashamed to tell friends and family, those with process addictions keep their stories secret. In this in-depth interview, Ben Dolnick visits with several clients from reSTART to learn about their struggles, what brought them to the center, what treatment looks like, and how they plan to balance their lives in recovery. Dolnick sums up his experience by using a quote by 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Nevertheless, one client reports summarizes his reason for enrolling in reSTART this way: “At some point, I handed over my life to a machine.”