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Game Addiction Clinic Swamped

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gaming-is-not-a-drug dept.

Via the Gamers with Jobs Press Pass, an article on The Australian site claiming that the Dutch gaming addiction clinic is swamped with fearful parents and glaze-eyed children. From the article: "Although experts are still debating whether excessive game playing counts as an addiction, Mr Bakker has no doubt that the symptoms are the same. 'If we see a car burning outside, we don't sit around wondering what to call it,' he said. 'It is not a chemical dependency, but it's got everything of an obsessive-compulsive disorder and all of the other stuff that comes with chemical dependency.' Tim, a 21-year-old from Utrecht, said he had hardly left his bedroom for five years because he was so obsessed by his computer games. "

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  1. Group therapy for gamers? by TacNuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great now they can all get together and form their own guild..........

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    I am not a number. I am a free man!
  2. I can't go to the clinic... by frosty_tsm · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... I'm busy training to be a professional gamer.

  3. Won't be swamped after first patch by Volante3192 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not so much that the building's swamped, they just didn't want to spawn the keys to the 2nd floor immediatly on release.

    1. Re:Won't be swamped after first patch by the_demiurge · · Score: 2, Funny

      The only winning move is not to play...

  4. My name is Krelorc the Overlord... by Mikachu · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I'm a gameaholic.

    1. Re:My name is Krelorc the Overlord... by Kesch · · Score: 3, Funny

      Adun Toridas, Krelorc.

      I am Lokomala, level 60 warrior, Nathrezim, and I have an addiction to phat lewt.

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      If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
  5. Re:Where are the parents in all of this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, come on. Either he was playing video games all the time, or he was too strong to confront. You can't have it both ways!

  6. I can quit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can quit anytime I want. Really, I can! In fact, I was going to quit after I hit level 60. But now, I've decided I'm going to quit after I get all my Epic gear. That's right! After I get all my Epic gear, I'm really really going to quit. I promise!

  7. You don't understand... by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, come on. Either he was playing video games all the time, or he was too strong to confront.

    He had a fearfully strong grip and thumbs that could kill with a twitch!

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    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
  8. What to call it by Threni · · Score: 3, Funny

    > 'If we see a car burning outside, we don't sit around wondering what to call it,'

    I do. That one looks like Ian the inferno, but last time Steve Scorchup seemed more appropriate.

  9. Addiction? by CaseM · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell with that. I don't have time to be addicted...I have a raid schedule to keep.

  10. "gamers", as he calls them by CyberBill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last week, Mr Bakker took his first group of "gamers", as he calls them, on a parachuting trip to take their minds off their computers.

    Ohh! gamers huh? Thats a pretty good name that you just came up with Mr. Bakker!!! (In his defence, I'm sure its the fault of The Australian and their staff)

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    -Bill
  11. obligatory link by JavaBrain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course this isn't funny.

    http://www.civanon.com/

  12. Re:Why is your experience not 'real life'? by raehl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fine, you win, you were an addict.

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    paintball
  13. Re:Where are the parents in all of this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Uhhh, they took away the drugs? ;)