u/Consistent_Edge_5654

Anyone whose has dealt with teens, please give me your words of wisdom. My son is 15, almost 16. He spends 90% of his time in his room besides a walk he does every evening and meals/bathroom.

He’s developing tech neck from ps5 and phone usage. He says he’s not depressed but doesn’t want to communicate. He eats whatever he can get his hands on (yesterday it was two small boxes of cereal by 5 PM- nothing else). His father had a gaming addiction that cost him his family (me and my son), his sanity, his ability to be a normal human being…and I’m afraid my son will follow in his foot steps.

I encourage my son to go meet friends and be active and social. Outside of his phone and gaming buddies, he has zero interest in making plans or meeting people.

During the school year, he’s busy with studies and does seem to have friends. His grades aren’t amazing, but he managed a B average last year.

Am I ok to be worried?

I just watched the movie Obsession and the main character Bear looks like he could be Penn Badgley’s long lost cousin or brother. I see a vague resemblance!

I started wondering, for those who have seen the movie, how do you think Joe would react if one of his “yous” become obsessed with him? I know Love was the most likely to fall into this category, but I mean like wildly, crazily, stalking level, can’t leave him alone, crying all the time bc she wants to be loved so much by him, obsessed the way portrayed in the movie. Think he’d be esctatic? Or turned off bc there was no challenge?