My case is slightly the same with the guy in the mentioned link, though I got over my Dota's addiction. Here are some backgrounds. I grew up in rural Laos to poor parents. When I was little, my father was drinking every single day that my mother or his cousins must went out to find him and brought him home. If he had made himself home, there would have been a fight/argument between my mother and him. When I was 10, my father got over his drinking problems, I have a little sister, and my family were in good term financially. However, one day my mother was scammed by her friends. That was a lot of money by Laotian's standard. One year later, I was 14, my mother got a stroke and was subconscious for more than a week. Despite all the odds, she got over it and recovered in 3 years. I was in high school doing really well. Many of my friends were addicted to games but I was not. Fast forward a couple of years, I was in an OK university (by Laotian's standard). I was on top. Then my mother got a second stroke, this time she was subconscious for 2 months. Where I visited her, she was terribly thin. I touched her arm hopelessly. I remembered the piteous look of a nurse. She got over it this time too. To this day, she can't speak and can’t control half of her body but her mental condition is extremely good. She remembers everything and she can write using her left