My mother is addicted to gaming and emotionally unavailable. What should I do? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Her actions may be numbing pain she feels in other areas of her life, so you must approach the issue thoughtfully My mother is in her 70s and addicted to playing video games such as Tetris, many different versions of solitaire and slot machine gambling games. In the 1990s my parents bought a desktop computer and my mum started to play mostly card games on it for hours. As technology has progressed, she moved to a laptop and now a smartphone. When my sisters and I were younger, we used to joke...

By Annalisa Barbieri