Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts

eldavojohn writes "So, you can't find the time to leave the World of Warcraft to seek help for your World of Warcraft addiction? Sounds reasonable. Well, addiction therapists are coming to meet you so you don't have to quit playing as they counsel you and your addiction. From the leader of this initiative, Dr. Graham: 'We will be launching this project by the end of the year. I think it's already clear that psychiatrists will have to stay within the parameters of the game. They certainly wouldn't be wandering around the game in white coats and would have to use the same characters available to other players. Of course one problem we're going to have to overcome is that while a psychiatrist may excel in what they do in the real world, they're probably not going to be very good at playing World of Warcraft.' Send in the level 5 counselor and let the games begin!" What happens when the therapists become addicted?

Comments

A cure for slashdot ?

[dargaud]

Oh, I get it, kdawson must be the cure against /. addiction...

Re:A cure for slashdot ?

[aicrules]

+1 Mean spirited

To twink or not to twink...

[SavTM]

'Keep it Real' and suffer like the rest of the grinders or abuse your personal resources to obtain authority like the rest of the world?

I suggest joining the Horde.

Re:how ironic...

[therufus]

For those of you not familiar with K's Choice and didn't get the parent comment...

Re:"Quit trying to save me!"

[ChaoticCoyote]

I have. For some time in the early 90s, I lived in the middle of Nevada, 50 miles form the nearest working gas station, no plumbing (other than a hole in the ground.) I also spent more than twenty years living in some of the more remote communities of Colorado, where you could by completely cut off from civilization for a week at a time by snow.

The reason those places are still wilderness is that it isn't possible to do much in those places. You can't grow enough crops for survival, for starters, and water can be a concern. Not being able to get FedX packages can be just as limiting as stoplight cameras at times...

The problem isn't being around other people -- it's people failing to live by the golden rule.

Re:Obligatory SNL

[infinite9]

Somewhere in a mall out there (I dare not google now because I'm at work) is a store called "Kids Exchange". Write the sign in all capital letters and make the store front entrance too narrow to fit the space between the words and you get something quite different.