Game Addiction as we commonly call someone playing (video/online) games as if theres
no tomorrow, is still out of the addiction book of the doctors. Isnt that neat? Further
showing how politicians and some members of the media are just using this topic so they
have something to say, and have something to report? All that talk, just so people will
think they are responsible, or maintain their reputation, without any consideration the
result the gaming industry can contribute to the economy, and the positive effects of
gaming.
What exactly are they referring to, or how are these experts looking at video game
addiction? They themselves will answer it:
Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game
addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the
issue more.
There, akin to alcoholism”. We all know what alcohol addiction is, and these psychiatrists
backed away from the proposal to mark video game addiction at the same level as
alcoholism.
There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to
alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesnt get to have the word addiction
attached to it, said Dr. Stuart Gitlow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
It is not yet clear whether video games are addictive, according to Dr. Louis Kraus of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, who is also a psychiatrist at Rush
University Medical Center. Its not necessarily a cause-and-effect type issue. There may be
certain kids who have a compulsive component to what they are doing.
Finally, the Entertainment Software Association, representing the $30 billion global video
game industry, said more research is needed before even considering video game addiction
as a mental disorder.
In other words, politicians, parents, teachers, members of the press, and those who were
victims of addicted husbands/boyfriends, [b]do NOT[/b] make video game addiction an
excuse to your irresponsibility and lack of knowledge on how to raise your kids. I was
once there, long before todays generation got addicted to video games, especially LAN and
online games, but my parents and my friends, even my ex-girlfriend, and all the
experiences I went through, taught me how to prioritize the different areas of my life, and
how important offline social-life is.
If these people just simply gave up on me, or do not spend time to lecture me and control
