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World Health Organization classifiés gaming addiction as a disease
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I have gaming addiction, if I'm being 100% honest with myself. It hasn't affected my employment, but definitely my social life.
I have no problem with the WHO classifying this as a disease.
I have no problem with the WHO classifying this as a disease.
Good. All forms of addiction need to be addressed for and Gaming addiction is just as serious as any other addiction
Just as long as 12-step assholes don't colonize this diagnosis like they have with other addictions.
Yeah, they're definitely assholes for successfully getting people to stop drinking.
Seems like a pretty good definition to me. I can see some Gamers yelling loudly against the strawman "so gaming is a disease now??" though.
Edit: I guess that actual definition is a bit old now, but I hadn't read it back when it was drafted.
Oh no, I have a disease now. Some one cure me.
Actually, I'll take this opportunity to take sick leave from school, seeing as I have a disease.
Actually, I'll take this opportunity to take sick leave from school, seeing as I have a disease.
For a while gaming was something akin to movies and books. It's only recently (relatively) that we've moved to the gambling parallels that led us to addictive behaviours
AA performs no better than control in clinical trials and spiritually and psychologically abuses its charges in the meantime. If getting an official diagnosis means more insurance money starts flowing so they can abuse more people, this is by no means good news.
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