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New Mental Disorder: Video-Game Addiction

Started by maxkalehoff · 1 year ago

The New Scientist reports that doctors at a debate at the AMA “backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video-game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism on Sunday, saying psychiatrists should study the issue further.”

The problem with designating video-game addiction as a mental disorder is that the definition of video game is [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Gaming addiction isn't really a mental disorder, a bit of self control and the problem resolves itself ! However for people with no self control at all, the problems get bigger. They need help from others that can convince them to limit there time to games.
  • this mental disorder in the sense that not that they will go mad,but they will think always about video games and hence called as addiction.
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    ragavendra

    Drug Rehabs
  • Perhaps people with addictive personalities flock towards things that are addictive. Maybe they are the people who get addicted. I don't think that video game addiction should be added to the DSM.

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