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WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition in 2018
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<blockquote data-quote="Gadarene" data-source="post: 72152618" data-attributes="member: 306152"><p>Seriously tho do we do this with any other hobby? Book addiction? Tv addiction?</p><p></p><p>‘In one study, he found that when kids stopped being addicted to games, their depression and anxiety got better.</p><p></p><p>"These are co-morbid conditions," he said. "If you just treat the depression and not gaming, the gaming is likely to come back." This suggests it's a unique condition, he said.’</p><p></p><p>The quote seems to suggest the opposite of what the article asserts, but the issue here is the depression and anxiety, not the gaming. Gaming at worst may be a distraction from getting proper help, but they’re often a symptom, not the problem.</p><p></p><p>I gamed way more before getting treatment for anxiety mainly because I didn’t know I had it and I was generally incapable of forging a direction for myself in life, largely because of said anxiety! Games weren’t the problem there, if anything they stopped me from throwing myself in front of a subway train.</p><p></p><p>Does Gentile run a ‘gaming addiction’ treatment centre I wonder? Wondering how useful the financial boon of WHO acknowledgement of this ‘disease’ may be to him personally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gadarene, post: 72152618, member: 306152"] Seriously tho do we do this with any other hobby? Book addiction? Tv addiction? ‘In one study, he found that when kids stopped being addicted to games, their depression and anxiety got better. "These are co-morbid conditions," he said. "If you just treat the depression and not gaming, the gaming is likely to come back." This suggests it's a unique condition, he said.’ The quote seems to suggest the opposite of what the article asserts, but the issue here is the depression and anxiety, not the gaming. Gaming at worst may be a distraction from getting proper help, but they’re often a symptom, not the problem. I gamed way more before getting treatment for anxiety mainly because I didn’t know I had it and I was generally incapable of forging a direction for myself in life, largely because of said anxiety! Games weren’t the problem there, if anything they stopped me from throwing myself in front of a subway train. Does Gentile run a ‘gaming addiction’ treatment centre I wonder? Wondering how useful the financial boon of WHO acknowledgement of this ‘disease’ may be to him personally. [/QUOTE]
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