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'Gaming disorder' deemed an official illness by World Health Organization
Amathe
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https://www.cnet.com/news/world-health-organization-deems-gaming-disorder-an-official-illness/
Perhaps what pushed them over the top on this hotly debated issue is people's increasing willingness to play lousy games.
Perhaps what pushed them over the top on this hotly debated issue is people's increasing willingness to play lousy games.
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The sad part is I was mostly weened off but then there was a big rpg resurgence around 2014 and it was like the good ol' days again for a couple years. Things were good for a while, and then people realized they don't actually like real rpgs and just like hipster bullshit with lite rpg elements. So now I'm going through major withdrawals and all the slicky boy glad hands keep bragging about their huge backlog to rub my face in it.
I'd feel bad for the people afflicted with this WHO designation, but its hard to find pity for people who could easily be cured by simply having better taste in games, and then they could join me in my self-diagnosed affliction of having tons of demand and no supply. First world problems, right?
I use to be a bad person, drugs, law breaking, expelled from 3 diffrent highschools. I smoked crack as a drug of choice, unfortunatly i always been good at making money so i was smoking propbably $1000 a day (street value not what i paid so about 2 balls a day and not everyday but 75 pct of the week for the last year or so) I smoked weed at 15 till 17 then from 17 to 22 was crack . I was a bad addict, couldnt stop myself. When I was incarcerated I had to do anger managements, drug councelling and such. However seeing how it was easy to obtain said item on the inside, didnt work all that well.
When I was 22 I had I came home 1 day to find out my GF was preggo (I knew her lady timing was off that month so it was a semi surprise) When this happened, it felt like being hit with a freight train. My whole life just flipped cause now, it wasnt about me. There was going to be a living, breathing life relying on me,I had pending charges so I turned myself in, when i got to court I pleaded with the judge to just incarcerate me for several months and fine me up the rear because i wanted to be there when the baby was born. That I understand what I had to do. They werent serious charges like murder and rape, but like bar fights possesion and such, so thats what he did. 6 Months in jail 1 year on house arrest
I didnt goto therapy, or anything considered "help". I coulda took methadone but thats just another drug so whats the point. "Cold Turkey" was the way and to full success. During the process however i had to take a urine screen ever Wednesday for 3 years to prove i was clean (condition of my sentence) if I didnt show up for that screen i would be arrested (1 day i was held up at my job they came to my job arrested me and held me for the week till my next screening.
Now im no longer an addict (my last hit was 14 years ago)
Addictions are very serious and come in many forms, I highly promote articles like that to keep it fresh in peoples minds, and for there to be services for people to turn too if need be.
(Sorry for the life story, but it shows my exp with addictions, I also have a brother that ODed 8 years ago from heroine, unfortunatly my story couldnt help him, but hopefully someday will help someone)
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Gota love Big Pharma
Aloha Mr Hand !
I've never met a single parent in my life who actively sought ways to medicate a child for anything short of an illness diagnosed by a doctor. It's not like parents are just taking kids to their PCP and going "gimme those video game drugs!"
Aloha Mr Hand !
If you haven't met any, doesn't mean they don't exist. Just browse social media pages and you can read a ton of fucked up stuff on a daily basis.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Aloha Mr Hand !
From PsychGuides.com on Video Game Addiction Treatment
"Treatment for video game addiction is similar to that for other addictions. Counseling and behavior modification are the primary means of treating addicted gamers. Together, individual and family counseling are powerful treatment tools. Some treatment facilities incorporate medication in their programs."
"Although clinical trials are in the early stages, there is some indication that certain medications help video game addicts by altering their brain chemistry to reduce the urge to play. Buproprion, in particular, has appeared to offer help to some addicts by inhibiting norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake. A six-week trial showed that those taking the drug experienced fewer cravings to play."
I can find a lot more resources, clinical trials, research and articles regarding similar methods. And this is just the beginning. When there's a disease/disorder, there's a market. When there's a market, there are going to be products.
Psychiatry is based on medications, not therapy.
There is 3 times more "official disorders" than there was in the 50thies.
The result? Nearly 50% of Americans suffer some form of disorder in their life-time - and plenty of drugs to prescribe.
Just from the recent itteration, if you visit France and you happen to be Japanese origin, you should beware of Paris syndom but neither Italy seem to be safe since you can get struck by Florance syndrome if you visit a city of the same name.
Psychiatry/psychology is just a comedy...altough very lucrative one...
EDIT- also, the idea that doctors are overmedicating isn't that clear-cut, either:
"While blaming psychiatrists, parents, schools, or drug companies might seem legitimate, some of the facts just don’t fit. First, most of the prescriptions for stimulant drugs and antidepressants are not from psychiatrists.6 In fact, outside of a few major cities, families in much of the nation have very limited access to child psychiatrists. Blaming parents is easy, but as Judith Warner argues in her book, We’ve Got Issues, most parents resist medication rather than request it.7 Schools in many parts of the country have reduced unstructured time, but the increase in medication is now seen in toddlers, years before children begin school. And drug companies, while frequently maligned, have reduced, not increased, their marketing budgets in the US.8
If psychiatrists, parents, schools, or drug companies are not the culprit, who is? The answer is potentially more complicated and more worrisome. Is it possible that the increased use of medication is not the problem but a symptom? What if more children were struggling with severe psychiatric problems and actually the problem was not over-treatment but increased need? Surely, if we discovered more children were being treated for diabetes or immune problems, we wouldn’t blame the providers or the parents. We’d be asking what drives the increase in incidence. And, there actually are large increases in the incidence of Type I diabetes and food allergies."
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2014/are-children-overmedicated.shtml
This isn't something that can be reduced down to "if A, then B."
Might as well use leeches to argue blood transfusions are useless.
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