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Do you find yourself playing video games for hours on end without realizing it? Does your gaming habit have a negative effect on your daily life and hygiene? Do you keep on grinding instead of focusing on your career or IRL relationships? You may have gaming disorder:
Gaming addiction will become a mental disorder officially recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) next year.
The WHO, originally founded in 1946 as an agency of the United Nations dedicated to international health, is set to publish an updated International Classification of Diseases in 2018; one could say it's about time since the last revision (ICD-10) was endorsed in May 1990.
There is already a beta draft available online for ICD-11 and we can find gaming addiction filed under Mental, behavioral or neurodevelopmental disorders\Impulse control disorders. Here's the current, work-in-progress description by the WHO:
Gaming disorder is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour ('digital gaming' or 'video-gaming'), which may be online (i.e., over the internet) or offline, manifested by: 1) impaired control over gaming (e.g., onset, frequency, intensity, duration, termination, context); 2) increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities; and 3) continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences. The behaviour pattern is of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning. The pattern of gaming behaviour may be continuous or episodic and recurrent. The gaming behaviour and other features are normally evident over a period of at least 12 months in order for a diagnosis to be assigned, although the required duration may be shortened if all diagnostic requirements are met and symptoms are severe.
Paper critical of the proposal: Video game addiction: The push to pathologize video games. (DOI: 10.1037/pro0000150) (DX)
See also: LAD.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday December 26 2017, @02:18PM (1 child)
The left is dominant in society at this time, they are the establishment, and they stole original sin doctrine as a guilt / control mechanism from the Catholics and have extensively weaponized it. One of the most terrifying things to leftists is the modern counter reaction of people laughing at them when they are called addicts or something-ists.
You can control Catholics when you can always primate dominance ritual them with a slap of original sin fire and brimstone. But it makes the powers that be nervous when atheist types laugh in the face of that. Likewise the purpose of saturating a culture with guilt inducing claims of addiction and racism is an effective means of societal control (ask yourself, for what? or whom?) and laughing in their face freaks them out.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @03:50PM
Meh, addiction and racism are two very different things.
I will agree that some accusations of racism / sexism / ageism / politicism go overboard but welcome to humanity you narcissistic ostrich. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and please PLEASE stop pretending like conservatives are now some poor persecuted group. It is simply laughable seeing how thin skinned conservatives can be when they get a tiny dose of the shit they've been doling out for hundreds of years: racism (no not just a conservative problem, but much moreso these days), and moral judgments spring right to mind. Don't kid yourself that many conservatives do not still have a problem with a) all minorities b) gay people c) women d) drugs e) games f) poor people g) hippies.