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Let the disability claims begin. ‘Gaming disorder’ is now an official mental health condition.
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2018 Jun 19, 3:48am 1,093 views 3 comments
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lostand confused
2018 Jun 19, 4:06am
lostand confused
2018 Jun 19, 4:06am
So you can spend the first part of your life gaming and on welfare and mom's basement and the second part of your life on gaming disability?
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Shaman
2018 Jun 19, 9:36am
Shaman
2018 Jun 19, 9:36am
Wait, so since gaming gives people a “disability,” we need to give them free money so they can continue doing what is making them “disabled?”
Or, we could kick them into the street and make them go cold turkey. We could call it a new game, one where you figure out where to sleep and how to find food! Leveling up will include upgrading your domicile from a cardboard box to a ghetto apartment, and your food from garbage to Jack in the Box!
Or, we could kick them into the street and make them go cold turkey. We could call it a new game, one where you figure out where to sleep and how to find food! Leveling up will include upgrading your domicile from a cardboard box to a ghetto apartment, and your food from garbage to Jack in the Box!
Compulsive game playing is now a mental health condition, the World Health Organization announced Monday in the latest edition of its disease classification manual.
The WHO defines a “gaming disorder” as having three major characteristics that experts say are similar to substance use disorders and gambling disorder.
“One is that the gaming behavior takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery,” Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, of the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, told CNN.
The other two are impaired control over gaming and continuation or an increase in gaming despite negative consequences like “disturbed sleep patterns, like diet problems, like a deficiency in the physical activity,” Poznyak said.
The pattern of behavior must be present for at least 12 months before it can be officially diagnosed as a disorder.
“It cannot be just an episode of few hours or few days,” Poznyak warned.
The WHO estimated that gaming disorder only affects a “small proportion of people.”
The news was cheered by Hilarie Cash, co-founder of reSTART, one of the first inpatient treatment programs in the US for video game addiction.
“I’ve been surprised it’s taken so long for everybody to catch up to the fact. But I also understand that they need to have strong, research-based evidence before they bring on a new disorder,” she said. “I think it’s a game-changer, although how quickly the game will change, I don’t know.”
https://nypost.com/2018/06/18/gaming-disorder-is-now-an-official-mental-health-condition/