Abstinence is not the goal of the treatment, but adaptive use. Psycho-education, self-observation and development of offline activities appear to help the patients to reduce their time on the Internet and/or with video games. The case studies showed different results: two of them did not mention treatment follow-up, precluding the analysis on these data57,58; an article showed that the psychotherapeutic outcome was unsatisfactory due to consecutive patient dropouts60, two other articles have demonstrated the positive prognosis end of psychotherapy59,61. It is still early to assert if CBT will be the therapy of choice for these patients.