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It's been debated and joked about for decades. Now, for the first time, video / computer game addiction has been officially designated as a disorder.
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/65580-video-game-addiction-mental-health-disorder.html
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Video Game Addiction Becomes Official Mental Disorder in Controversial Decision by WHO
Video games can be highly engrossing, but can some people become addicted to gaming? The World Health Organization (WHO) says yes.
Recently, the WHO officially recognized "gaming disorder" as a mental health condition — adding the disorder to the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11, the organization's official diagnostic manual, according to CBS News.
Simply playing a lot of video games isn't enough to count as a disorder. Rather, the disorder occurs when gaming interferes with people's daily lives. According to the WHO, gaming disorder is a "pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior" in which people lose control of their gaming behavior, give priority to gaming over other interests and activities, and continue gaming despite negative consequences, such as impairments in their family relationships, social lives, work duties or other areas.
A person typically needs to have symptoms for a year in order to be diagnosed with the disorder, WHO said. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/65580-video-game-addiction-mental-health-disorder.html
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