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The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The World Health Organization is poised to classify "gaming disorder" as a mental health problem in its 2018 update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Gaming disorder could be diagnosed if a person's video game habit "is of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning," according a tentative draft of WHO's 11th update to the ICD. Licensed marriage and family therapist Paula-Jo Husack said common symptoms for children and adults include social isolation, trouble transitioning from one thought to another, reduction in empathy, loss of appetite and loss of sensory perception. The WHO said those symptoms generally need to persist for at least a year before doctors diagnose a case of gaming disorder, but added that a diagnosis could be made sooner if symptoms are severe.
I mean, while we're at it, could we add clinging excessively to "social" media and constant gawking at your damn phone? I mean, the latter has a good chance of sorting itself out when you do it in halfway decent traffic, but the former does become an issue.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Now that deaf, dumb and blind kid also has a mental disorder? It's tough being a Pinball Wizard.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Is excessive gaming any different from any other excessive _____ situation? I think they have a name for that... addiction