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WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com)
The decision to class gaming addiction as a mental health disorder was "premature" and based on a "moral panic," experts have said. From a report: The World Health Organization included "gaming disorder" in the latest version of its disease classification manual. But biological psychology lecturer Dr Peter Etchells said the move risked "pathologising" a behaviour that was harmless for most people. The WHO said it had reviewed available evidence before including it. It added that the views reflected a "consensus of experts from different disciplines and geographical regions" and defined addiction as a pattern of persistent gaming behaviour so severe it "takes precedence over other life interests." Speaking at the Science Media Centre in London, experts said that while the decision was well intentioned, there was a lack of good quality scientific evidence about how to properly diagnose video game addiction.
So i guess now that democrats can kick republicans out of restaurants for no reason...
If you're alluding to Mrs. Huckabee-Sanders I am assuming the reason she was asked to leave that restaurant is because she's an arsehole, and no-one would want to be in the same room as her.
Its' exactly the same reason young conservatives are whining about nobody with an IQ above room temperature wants to date them.
Consequences. Ha.
I know. I will stop feeding the trolls now.
For those who don't know the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association is a manual produced by an organization based on votes rather than science and at one time included homosexuality. It's basically this all over again rather than real science. I don't doubt that some people take things too far- but to create a fictional disease is just another means of having something for a psychiatrist to diagnose in order to steal from those who are suffering. That is to say some addictions are real, but the disease, diagnostics, and solutions are just fabricated for profit.
I'm always skeptical about psychiatry. The sad and pathetic reality is psychiatry started as a fraud to deceive desperate people into surrendering wealth and was at one point outlawed (a very long time ago, a hundred+ years ago). As the state became wise to the fraud the industry adapted with different techniques. This has happened each time the people have wised up. Each time the industry has claimed to have "solved" the problem of abuse. From the 1900-1950s lobotomies, electric shock, freezing people in cold water, blood letting, and other bull shit techniques. In reality they've only hidden the problem each time. Today we put people on seriously bad drugs which have all sorts of negative side effects while keeping the symptoms from appearing to the average person. To the outsider the mental disorders people have are resolved. But to those suffering from these disorders it's just another form of hell. Ever wonder why we have people offing themselves and others? People want to believe the drugs work including those who are taking em. Nobody wants to be locked up (outside of those with sexual fetishes anyway). The reality is very different.