Gaming addiction classified as disorder by WHO

bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42541404

>Gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organisation. Its 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the condition "gaming disorder"

>The draft document describes it as a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour so severe that it takes "precedence over other life interests". Some countries had already identified it as a major public health issue. Many, including the UK, have private addiction clinics to "treat" the condition.

>The last version of the ICD was completed in 1992, with the new guide due to be published in 2018. The guide contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms and is used by doctors and researchers to track and diagnose disease. It will suggest that abnormal gaming behaviour should be in evidence over a period of at least 12 months "for a diagnosis to be assigned" but added that period might be shortened "if symptoms are severe".

>Symptoms include:
> - impaired control over gaming (frequency, intensity, duration)
> - increased priority given to gaming
> - continuation or escalation of gaming despite negative consequences

better stop playing video games or your parents will call the cops on you, put you in a straight jacket, and give you all the psychiatric treatment you desperately need

>Dr Richard Graham, lead technology addiction specialist at the Nightingale Hospital in London, welcomed the decision to recognise the condition. "It is significant because it creates the opportunity for more specialised services. It puts it on the map as something to take seriously." But he added that he would have sympathy for those who do not think the condition should be medicalised. "It could lead to confused parents whose children are just enthusiastic gamers."

>He said he sees about 50 new cases of digital addiction each year and his criteria is based on whether the activity is affecting basic things such as sleep, eating, socialising and education. He said one question he asked himself was: "Is the addiction taking up neurological real-estate, dominating thinking and preoccupation?"

>Many psychiatrists refer to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the fifth edition of which was published in 2013. In that, internet gaming disorder is listed as a "condition for further study", meaning it is not officially recognised. Lots of countries are grappling with the issue and in South Korea the government has introduced a law banning access for children under 16 from online games between midnight and 06:00. In Japan, players are alerted if they spend more than a certain amount of time each month playing games and in China, internet giant Tencent has limited the hours that children can play its most popular games.

>A recent study from the University of Oxford suggested that, although children spend a lot of time on their screens, they generally managed to intertwine their digital pastimes with daily life. The research - looking at children aged eight to 18 - found that boys spent longer playing video games than girls.

>Researcher Killian Mullan said: "People think that children are addicted to technology and in front of these screens 24/7, to the exclusion of other activities - and we now know that is not the case."

>"Our findings show that technology is being used with and in some cases perhaps to support other activities, like homework for instance, and not pushing them out," he added.

>"Just like we adults do, children spread their digital tech use throughout the day, while doing other things."

I blame this on the gays... ever since the gays fought to be removed from the same list, the world went to shit.

They can't monetize vidya with ads like you can with TV, that's why games are the list and television is not

NEET BUXS

BIN THAT PC

Lol, he looks like a southern lawyer

Thats not how it works, more like anyone who doesnt understand a gamers struggle with his dissorder should be slapped with hate speech charges.

The struggle is real

The lefties have no control over gaming usernames...

also *straitjacket* for spellers

Thats a GREAT idea. Piss off a bunch of bored dispossessed young men looking for some excitement in their lives. That'll end well.

So I have (((ADD))) and gaming addiction. How much neetbux could I get?

>tfw gaming addiction
Haven't really played in a couple of years but when I did I'd play like 10+ hours every day.
I still sometimes spend that time playing shit like minesweeper.
Also I don't know if it's any better now that I watch tv-shows for the 10+ hours every day

Facebook, amazon, eBay, et el are way worse...

>BBC considers WHO an authority when it is gaming addiction
>BBC doesn't consider WHO an authority when it is transsexualism (ICD-10 F64)

Just wondering, do you have to have a tv license in the uk to play video games?

>sitting in front of a tv screen minding your own business is a disease but chopping your dick off isn't

If you guys don't think this is a real problem, you're retarded. I had a friend once who started playing WOW when he was away at college. It didn't start bad, but it escalated to the point where he would play the game for 8-12 hours a day on average. He went from a 4.0 GPA to barely a 2.0, he lost all his IRL friends and yes never had a gf. He's been at college for 3 years and doesn't know a single person.

If he didn’t have wow before college... He came from an abusive home. His parents should be jailed

No, you need a TV license to receive TV transmissions, it's not so much a TV license as it is an aerial license, it covers radios too, but it's predicated on receiving actually licensed broadcasts, so for example mobile phones and wi-fi use radio transmission too, and they don't come under the license.

I think I'm right in saying that the BBC plan to make it necessary to have the license to access their website and to use the iPlayer (digital streaming service), which wasn't the case previously. That may have happened already, I've no idea.

Either way, you don't need to to play games, a screen on its own doesn't require it.

>If you guys don't think this is a real problem

Oh it is a real problem. My dad plays fallout for at least 12 hours a day, neglects bathing, will not clean up his room, will not lift a finger to repair the house. Will not even go to buy groceries or supplies for repairs. Often misses appointments at the va because he sits and plays video games all day and night. If I get hurt while fixing the leaking roof, he will wait a week to take me to the hospital, because 1 new mod for fallout released and he wants to play the game from scratch and get every ending with the new mod. Been this way ever since we were kids. He just wont stop playing video games for a minute.

Lol... no way yer an American

Hello son.

>be me
>be ranked 2nd world holy paladin during firelands and madness of deathwing
>have gf and fucked an officer's gf on the side that lives a town away
>go out with friends regularly for drinks

You kids are just shit, is all it is. Stop making excuses and get better.
Fucking millenials (of which I am one) are a pathetic generation. Stop being shit.

I am. My dad has been a gaming addict ever since fucking pac man hit arcades.

bad goyim
stop playing video games
don't you want to be a wage slave?
take many loans from my bank to pay for cars and houses, use my credit cards to buy material shit you don't need
don't you want to be a good goy?

which fallout

YES!!!!!! GIBS ME MY GIBBSSSSSS

asking the important questions

The only game that is remotely addictive to me is R6...

I play R6 like a pro, until the last 30 secs of the round, then I just walk from my PC. It's fucking hilarious.

Hahaha all these triggered Sup Forums fags MORE MORE MORE

I bet these girls were hideous or made up

This

So does this mean I get to take leave of absences to play games or even game at work. That's how other disorders work.