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were younger did your parents ever complain that you were addicted to video
games after you'd been hanging out in the mushroom kingdom for too long i mean
maybe you're still hearing that from some members of your family well guess
what the world health organization not to be confused with that ban from the uk
classified gaming disorder as a real
health problem earlier this year so did that scolding that you were given about
how much time you spent in front of a screen actually have some merit to it
well turns out the answer is maybe but it's important to keep in mind that
whether you have an actual gaming addiction
isn't predicated on just how long you spend playing in fact plenty of people
frequently engage in lengthy gaming sessions without suffering from a true
addiction instead the folks who classify gaming
addiction as an actual disease focus on the ways that gaming can affect an
individual's life specifically the who focuses on whether
a gamer has difficulty putting the controller down when they want or need
to do other things and whether they feel compelled to play games like a 15 year
old boy from britain who missed an entire year of school playing fortnite
rather than simply gaming because it's an activity that they enjoy
and to be fair that definition does actually sound fairly reasonable
and it also sounds a lot like how people decide if they have a problem with other
more traditional vices such as substance use or gambling there's obviously a much
greater risk of losing staggering amounts of money if you feel like you
have to gamble as opposed to spending a few bucks on the occasional lotto ticket
but if gaming addiction is so similar to other forms of dependence why is its
classification by the who generating so much backlash after all the who said
that it based its decision on the fact that many people around the world were
being treated for the same symptoms well many in the gaming community feel that
this is just yet another undeserved black eye for the industry after renewed
public discussion about whether video games are partially to blame for things
like school violence despite the fact that a causal link has never been proven
there and there does seem to be merit to
the argument that the real problem for those who are addicted to
something is the state of mind rather
than the actual focus of their specific addiction and that a person who's
addicted to video games might have the same compulsive feelings as a person
who's addicted to smoking junk food or alternative forms of entertainment
there's also concern that whose classification is reflective of a moral
panic in which video games are simply a punching bag for societal and health
issues that may actually be caused by different things and this view isn't
just widespread among gamers but some psychologists also believe that the
decision to list gaming disorder specifically in the international
classification of diseases was premature
and based on weak evidence and even the who itself admits that the alleged
disorder only affects a small number of people and there was actually an oxford
university study in 2016 indicating gaming addiction might affect only about
three percent of gamers at most but there are fears that the mere fact
it's being recognized as a disease will result in heightened scrutiny on the
game industry and on individual gamers themselves whose passion for their hobby
could easily be mistaken as addiction to someone who doesn't share the same
interests but with specialized clinics for treating compulsive gaming sprouting
up around the world and with some countries like south korea even looking
at banning children and teens from online gaming during certain hours
who exactly is right here well we aren't
doctors here at techwiki but here's what we can say with a fair degree of
certainty if playing games is a major part of your life but it doesn't keep
you from your other obligations and you don't have difficulty putting them down
when you need to rock on brother
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