A survey of nearly 300 psychiatrists shows an increasing number of children are presenting with the problem...

>A survey of nearly 300 psychiatrists shows an increasing number of children are presenting with the problem, Dr Pravin Duller, an adolescent psychiatrist from Sydney’s Campbelltown Hospital, said.
>“Seventy per cent of psychiatrists feel it is a going to be a significant problem across all ages in the future and it is going to get worse,” Dr Duller said.
>Internet Gaming Disorder has just been added latest Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the leading means of categorising psychiatric conditions.
>Dr Duller said signs that children were addicted to gaming included withdrawal symptoms and signs of aggression when they are forced to stop, continued gaming despite evidence of harm, and multiple problems in other areas such as school, family and friends.
>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week, impacts males the most. Australian Communications and Media Authority data shows 95 per cent of boys play games on the internet during weekdays, including four per cent who spend nine hours or more.
>Video game addiction is not only a problem with children. Millions of adults are addicted costing approximately $600 billion of losses annually in work productivity.

How do we cure vidya addiction?

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>9 hours or more a week
What.

By sitting the kid down, and hitting them.

By putting a monthly subscription on mm-

>complaining about a video game addiction on a video game image board while not linking any website or even an archive
please leave

>making your children hate you

>9 hours or more a week
>tfw you played that in last two days.

now what, should I get to shrink?

Gee it's almost like real life fucking sucks and people want an escape from it. This is a societal problem. Not a gaming one.

>9 hours or more a week
>If you play 1 hour and 15 minutes a day of Video Games, you are an addict.

>How do we cure vidya addiction?

In children?

Take away the fucking video games. It's not hard.

In adults?

Don't. Let adults fuck up their lives if they want to. If their parents didn't raise them right, it's too late. There's nothing you can really do except for banning video games and that's not going to happen.

>muh $600 billion of losses annually in work productivity

So what? People are not slaves. People work in exchange for money and can simply choose not to do so. It doesn't become a burden on society unless they demand that taxpayers feed them, but the article excerpt you posted doesn't mention that.

Didn't people freak about T.V at one point for the same reason and now its normal? And before that it was radio? And before that books? And before that scrolls? And before that papyrus? And before that cave paintings?

>9 hours a week
FUCKING CASUALS

>forced to stop doing something you like
>show signs of aggression

What do u expect

I don't hate my parents.

And I will do it to my own children.

>1 hour and 15 minutes per day even on weekends
>less than 5% of kids play even that much
these people make very good money to be horribly incompetent and short-sighted

You better just go straight to the killing yourself part, you're beyond hope. Anyone who spends more than 5 minutes a day playing video games is clearly a social catastrophe and will never recover

As long they grow up to be productive members of the society and normal behaved they can loathe my sole existence, I will know i did a good job.

>9 or more hours
thats fucking retarded, "normal" people watch at least twice that with tv.

>9 hours a week

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week
Wow. That's like a bit over an hour per day.

this desu

Use crack or drink until your liver fails. That'll fix it right up.

porn, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, etc

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why with a bit more mommy influence of course! *giggles*

You know damn well that's bad if you are a little kid. They should be outside playing, socializing and being a good little normie.

A grown ass man can do whatever the fuck he wants with +9 hours of gaming.

You know I wonder what happens when guys who are into big tits have family members who have big tits?

Doctors don't know how to treat addiction in general, they don't even know what addiction is.

Remember that American doctors are the ones responsible for creating something like 80% of new heroin addicts.

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week...

I have to agree with others that this is a bullshit definition.

It's estimated that the average American watches TV for 35 hours per week.

Source:
businessinsider.com/how-much-tv-do-americans-watch-2016-6

Maybe try to make real life less miserable and shitty for the average person that they want to escape it as much as possible?

>Australia thinking gaming is the worst epidemic on the world yet again

Why are Australians so fucking stupid and so god damn out of touch with the world?
Holy shit.

Let's return to forcing wholesome Christian values down their throats, that'll do 'em right.

How about learning to raise a child, go do things with them. share your hobby with them, teach them valuable skills. i wish my parents did shit like this to me, now vidya gaems is all the escape i have from this world.

>This is a societal problem
It's not. Society, as is, can't be changed in a blink, thus it's easier to change you habits to adapt to society.

An hour and a quarter isn't going to affect their socializing all that much user. They spend 6 hours at school with their peers at minimum, and usually have around 8 hours of free time to do whatever the fuck they want. Instead of 8 hours, they get 7 and 3/4ths if they play 9 hours of vidya a week

That just made me want to play video games even more and this

we get boners. and they know we're looking, so they get all "ara ara" and rub it in our faces that they can see our boners.

>implying i don't like a tease

they live on a goddamn isolated continent where everything is 15 hours away including one coast to another coast, what the hell do you think man???

Gotta remember that this was from a group of Australians. They think any kind of gaming is bad, and CONTINUE to censor the ever living fuck out of video games and sell them at a much, much higher cost to get their youth to stop playing.

Australians consider gaming to be as addicting/deadly as fucking smoking.

>spending on average 1 hour and 15 minutes a day on video games make you an addict

What the fuck? That's a perfectly acceptable amount of time to spend on video games, still leaves plenty of time to play outside and do homework.

>How do we fix Vidya gaem addiction
>How do we fix TV addiction
>How do we fix Book addiction
>How do we fix Cave drawing addiction

We need to fix the real problem here.

Shit posters.

You did this thread before
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same thing that happens with guys that are into small tits have family members with small tits.

I guess TV addiction is a thing since most people fucking consume tv like its nothing.

What about books, can we be addicted to books?

Remember this is in Australia where they can explore nature and defend themselves from Emus mate.

It's different than America where you are trapped within your city/town with hardly anything to do unless you drive around.

I am 16 hours per day in front of my pc.
I think i have a problem

That's cus you're a cuck

>being into flat chested women
might as well admit to being gay, fuck

>9 hours or more a week
what a fucking n00b, i play that in a day.

remember Sup Forums
there are no bad parents

only addictive videogames

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week
>Millions of adults are addicted costing approximately $600 billion of losses annually in work productivity
These two things are click bait and said by jews. 1 hour 15 minutes a day is not addiction and people not working is not lost productivity because people aren't slaves.

it ain't gay as long as you have a bigger dick.

The only way to fight video games is with video games. To get the kids off the PC, put them in a living room setting, on the couch, in the middle of family life, and have them play single player console games. Then have them set goals, like, 'today i'm going to try to beat this boss' when they achieve their goals, they will feel rewarded with a sense of accomplishment. Then they will be more likely to intersperse their gaming sessions with other activities, discovering new ways to get that sense of accomplishment.

youre ok dude just get up and walk around for a couple minutes every hour

>driving around
this exact shit happened to me.
>user why arent you out driving around and doing stuff
>like what would I drive around for
>idk just drive around its what kids do
>but why, just to drive around?
>well yeah
>and waste all kinds of money?
>well thats why you get a job!

meanwhile in my mind, i'm thinking about what a fucking waste of time that is
>yes good goyim go out and work for me to pay for expensive gas
>waste all the time you have to literally do nothing but waste resources
>oh look now you have to do maintenance on your car because of natural wear and tear
>thats okay you can work more hours to pay for that too
>NO GOYIM DONT STAY HOME THATS WEIRD YOU MUST GO OUT AND DRIVE THATS A NORMAL THING TO DO

I swear it feels like everyone is retarded but me.

Nice try consolecuck.

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week

lol

>Internet Gaming Disorder
What a terrible name choice.

Black people still find it acceptable to hit their kids.
Do you want to be like black people Sup Forums?

But the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is an American publication. I thought it was implied that this is where the definition came from.

I thought that's what this boards sjw population aspired for?

>my own children
>cuck

>9 hours a week
>check steam profile
>104 hours over the past 2 weeks
>52 hours this week
>steam is one of my lesser used gaming platforms

>contributing to (((society)))
Yes, good goy.

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week
wew lads

I guess I must be triple addicted.

>implying anyone would want to have children with a fat smelly faggot.

>Millions of adults are addicted costing approximately $600 billion of losses annually in work productivity.
>tfw you play vidya at home and just browse the internet with your phone at work
Who /corporatedrain/ here?

>grow up in household where family watches several hours of television every evening
>they all ganged up on you and told you you played video games too much

The hypocrisy was real.

The only reason there are so many problems with the new generations is because their parents didn't hit them far enough.

These are the same retards that say ADHD is an actual thing, try and medicate them to hell and back so the only thing they can get real enjoyment from are video games, right?
I can't wait for everyone over the age of 40 to die so video games are viewed as being normal like movies.

I've always been a tits guy and like em huge

My mom and sister both have pretty big tits and the idea of being sexually attracted to either of them repulses me

Stop astral projecting

Regardless of what society has become wouldn't you want your kids being normalfags happy ignorants of what's really happening than people bordeline "red pilled" that lives misserable because they know how shit everything is and can't change it?

If you parents had hit you more maybe you'd be doing something more productive with your time than shitposting on Sup Forums

This is just falseflagging. They said the same thing about TV, the same thing about radio, the same thing about toys. Apparently, to be considered a healthy, normal child you have to play outside beating rocks with sticks like fucking animals.

It's an addiction if they physically cannot stop without other physical symptoms appearing.

is that happening? No. It's not. It's a bunch of 12 year olds getting pissy they have to do schoolwork. I remember back in the 80s when I was lazy I didn't wanna do my homework and would go outside and play instead. Did I have an "outside addiction"?

this

the day when beating your kid became frowned upon was the day society went to shit

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week
>9 hours a week

Fuckin christ kids are casuals, I've done 9 hours today and I've got 9 more in me.

>playing video games for 9+ hours a week means you're addicted
>watching the electric jew for 3 hours every evening is perfectly fine though, please don't forget to tune in for your daily brainwashing

This is just a typical old people mentality. "This shit didn't exist when I was young so it must be bad for you."

Kids these days are being brought up shit like iPads and mobile games, alot of which actually focus on enhancing cognitive ability. These kids will destroy our gaming industry as we know it, but they will all come out as Chads and Stacies and relatively happy normies. Basically, we lost. They win.

I can't find my body anymore. It is starting to scare me.

>Basically, we lost. They win.
The passage of time beats us all in the end. In 15 years, they will in turn lose to the next generation.

Or you can be a balanced person and don't shit your bed like anybody posting on Sup Forums with the first redpill you take.

Make real life suck less for kids.
Education can actually be engaging instead of insufferable.
Not-my-child parents can go die in a fire.
Athletics can be used to teach proper sportsmanship and provide meaningful outdoor experiences.
Provide playgrounds that aren't the equivalent of a padded room surrounded by wrought iron bars.
Clapistanis can actually deal with their bully problem instead of waiting for kids to play show and tell with their parent's guns.

I used to play 12+ hours a day 10 years ago, but I was not addicted, it was just my hobby back then, now I don't play almost at all.

What's the difference between "video game addiction" and watching TV all the time?

They must mean per day, per week makes no sense.

I think those games are too shallow to kill off actual games. People enjoy those phone games casually, but I think there's always going to be people craving games with more substance.

Stop giving babies/toddlers phones and tablets to play with. That would probably help a bit.

So as long as it isn't hooked up to the internet it's fine?

I heard a report yesterday that toddlers who used a smart phone have their social skills severely delayed.

>been using a computer all my life
>extremely antisocial
>late bloomer when it comes to everything

It all makes sense now my dudes. Technology causes autism.

>Video game addiction, defined as playing 9 hours or more a week
What happened to "work 8 hours, do whatever you want 8 hours, sleep 8 hours"?

>muh $600 billion of losses annually in work productivity
>So what?
But think of all the money, Mr. Shekelberg is losing!

The other one is what old people do, so that means it's okay.

DUDE these kids prefer to spend time on modern entertainment rather than waste their lives doing what we old farts did back when we were young LMAO lets just call it a disorder and addiction fuck these kids!!

NEWSFLASH: It's not my fault I would rather go save the world than go fucking play catch with my dad at the park FUCK THESE FAGGOTS FOR BEING JEALOUS AT US FOR NOT HAVING WHAT WE HAVE NOW

I didn't have the internet until I was a teenager and I still ended up asocial as fuck. Shit just happens, man.

Online video games are new and scary and they didn't exist when I was 14. I don't understand computers so when my kids spend all day playing with them I can't control them. They're obviously doing evil shit like going on the nazi 4chains, hacking music and downloading weed.

Make them too busy to play like we've been doing forever. When I have so much time I'll be playing ridiculous amounts of games, as well as buying, and I would be addicted. But the second I get more work hours and classes start back up I forget about them and don't even care anymore. Throw a good book my way and I'll ignore games for weeks.

kids have realised that video games are better than real life
the jews are losing it

Lucky for both you and doctors, a recent new toy fad may light the path.

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I'd complain about how fucking stupid these things are, but then I remember that a lot of the shit I played with as a teen was fucking stupid as well.

Kids will be kids.