Addiction experts say video games not an addiction
My Naughty finger start doing his work again.. while finishing my work at the office computer, it start to do search for today news.
So many news about A killing B, B bombing A, C knidnap A and etc. Yepp… that what the world all about..
I am not interested on that, I love to know news about new business opportunities and technologies.
My naughty fingers stop it search for a while, it stop when it found one news about “Addiction experts say video games not an addiction”. hmm….
I also play games.. and when to excited i intend to forget about other thing. did that also consider as addicted? hmmm…
My be you want read about it.
“By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - 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.Addiction experts also strongly opposed the idea at a debate at the American Medical Association’s annual meeting.
A couple is seen playing a Sony PlayStation video game at an electric home appliances shop in Tokyo in this May 16, 2007 file photo. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files)
They said more study is needed before excessive use of video and online games — a problem that affects about 10 percent of players — could be considered a mental illness.“There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn’t 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. “
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