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A teenage boy addicted to Fortnite headbutted his mum after she tried confiscating the video game.

Britta Hodge, from Sydney, Australia, revealed how she was left with a concussion after her 14-year-old addicted son turned on her after she tried to take the game away from him.

Britta claims her son Logan is so hooked to the game that he has missed school and will only leave the house once a week.

“It’s not as simple as taking the cord away and going, ‘Oh well, bad luck, you haven’t got the internet,” the mum said in an interview on TV programme 60 Minutes.

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“Because the repercussions from that – angry, aggressive – we’ve had to call the police. I have been headbutted, I’ve had concussions.”

Fortnite was branded “one of the biggest PC/Console games in the world” game, with 3.4 million people playing at the same time in December last year, according to Epic Games. As of January, the game had 45 million players worldwide.

Britta described how her son used to be healthy and sociable before he spent his pocket money on the games console two years ago.

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But the teenager, who has also been diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety, has now lost all contact with the outside world because of the game, which he says “is the only thing that gives him happiness.”

Britta has had to leave her job in order to take care of her son as he’s at home all day everyday.

“We can’t get him to school, he doesn’t leave the house. He comes out and eats and goes back to his room. We’ve tried everything. We’ve tried doctors,” Hodge told 9Honey.

“My concern is that he’s in year eight now, and he hasn’t had any formal education for two years. So, what’s going to happen later on in life for him?”.

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In response to those pressing her to just force him to school, the Australian mum said it is a mightier task than one may imagine.

"An addiction is an addiction. It doesn’t matter if it’s drugs, sex or online gaming," she said.

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"It’s chronic. We’ve been to doctors who have said 'I don’t think we’ve seen such a chronic case'."

She hailed the World Health Organization for listing 'gaming addiction' as a mental health condition in January.

Any abnormal behaviour should become evident over a year before it can be classed as addiction, the international body's International Classification of Diseases stipulated.