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WHO to Recognize 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition
LOL. My folks were talking about this. I didn't say anything because I find this really funny and second, it's usually the choice of the person doing it.
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2018-01-15, 15:27 | Link #2 |
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So long as you're not into some kind of abusive 10,000h event driven gotcha/hat game dont think gaming can really get you addicted to death.
A few issues that stand between you and death,
If gaming is "deadly" then they might as well add "going out and socializing" and "reading books" to the list, because unlike those with games the game itself will stop you. So assuming you get health problems the game will eventually pwn you into stopping since you'll just lose the ability to do anything. Of course that is unless its' a mobile gotcha game or something.
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2018-01-15, 22:06 | Link #3 |
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A bit late in that considering the danger occurred during the height of the MMO genre. I don't think it right to belittle the issue considering most folks here have done gaming binges before and would love to play our favourite games nonstop.
Folks suffering these issue just have issues with the stop part, much like alcoholics and gambling addicts. Heck i had issues sometime putting down a good novel.
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2018-01-16, 00:17 | Link #4 |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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One does not simply stick all sorts of diagnoses into the DSM and ICD manuals. You can't put one in without a lot of justified medical studies. It takes years.
Long time coming though, as someone who possibly had it in college and high school.
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2018-01-16, 04:48 | Link #5 |
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It's a lot more an addiction than a disorder, but whatever. Games enable people to be social without stepping out of their personal space - add that to the already addictive nature of multiplayer games, and it's rather evident that gaming companies (obviously) want people to play their games as much as possible. It's just working better than people thought it would.
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2018-01-16, 06:47 | Link #6 |
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When you put it in the medical pov, i can see why it takes so long fpr WHO to officially recognised the issue.
Disorder or addiction, personally i m leaning towards both in varying degree. Throw in the modern day of videogame gambling, the stake got ante up further. That said, this can be applied to lots of modern phenomena like social media, selfies and etc. Perhaps in 10 years time, they have a selfie disorder in WHO
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2018-01-18, 16:06 | Link #8 | |
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2018-02-25, 20:23 | Link #10 |
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180226_04/
A convention's being held in Japan to talk about this issue. And as usual, my mom/dad thinks that it's a health issue due to WHO being involved as mentioned in the news. I just laughed at myself.
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2018-02-25, 21:34 | Link #11 |
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: the Philippines
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They always forget or, in the case of news outlets, do not tell the whole story.
In the case of this news, they often overlook the fact that WHO hasn't finalized this, and some news outlets who were always dubious of the societal impact of gaming use this to further this agenda that "gaming is bad or is just for kids". It's been this way since the rise of e-sports, and news shows in America still raise an eyebrow whenever they find out that e-sports is now a big industry.
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2018-06-21, 07:03 | Link #15 |
So Like A Rose
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Foxglove
Age: 36
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I think if anything I have the opposite of gaming addiction. I freely admit that I am very much an isolated person (prefer 'hermit'), but it takes me a really long time to get into gaming these days, like the desire just isn't there. Now back in Middle School - High School, yup absolutely.
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2018-06-26, 03:20 | Link #17 |
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ontario, CA
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Any type of "addiction" is bad for your health whether it's gaming, sex, porn, working, etc to the point where it makes you neglect yourself, others, and/or your life (or the causing harm in some way; the list goes on). Simple fact and truth.
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