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posted by martyb on Monday June 18 2018, @05:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the doritos-and-mountain-dew-brain dept.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will officially classify "gaming disorder" as a mental health condition:

The World Health Organization is set to announce "gaming disorder" as a new mental health condition to be included in the 11th edition of its International Classification of Diseases, set to release Monday.

"I'm not creating a precedent," said Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, a member of WHO's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, which proposed the new diagnosis to WHO's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly. Instead, he said, WHO has followed "the trends, the developments, which have taken place in populations and in the professional field."

However, not all psychologists agree that gaming disorder is worthy of inclusion in the International Classification of Diseases, known as the ICD.

What are the characteristics of gaming disorder?

"One is that the gaming behavior takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery," he said. The second feature is "impaired control of these behaviors," Poznyak said. "Even when the negative consequences occur, this behavior continues or escalates." A diagnosis of gaming disorder, then, means that a "persistent or recurrent" behavior pattern of "sufficient severity" has emerged, according to the ICD. A third feature is that the condition leads to significant distress and impairment in personal, family, social, educational or occupational functioning, Poznyak said. The impact is real, he said, and may include "disturbed sleep patterns, like diet problems, like a deficiency in the physical activity."

Overall, the main characteristics are "very similar" to the diagnostic features of substance use disorders and gambling disorder, he said. Gambling disorder "is another category of clinical conditions which are not associated with a psychoactive substance use but at the same time being considered as addictive as addictions."

Also at NYT.

Previously: World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder"


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday June 18 2018, @06:25PM (7 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 18 2018, @06:25PM (#694624)

    The whole description seems like such a judgment call

    Politics and signalling, too. Check out some stuff on the WHO site.

    Trans is good and normal and healthy, not a mental disorder at all, and everything else has to change to fit that way of looking at biology and psychology, but too many right wing video gamers mean video gaming is a disease, a scourge to be eradicated.

    The point is they're not in the political business of absolutes, but in relatives, and they have an agenda to push such that a guy feeling an uncontrollable urge to chop his dick off is a normal and healthy holy act to be supported and cherished as superior and more important than all other ways to relate to a dick, but a guy who wants to play Fortnite after a long day at work is obviously mentally ill.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @06:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @06:31PM (#694627)

    Why do you insist that the brain is not a gendered organ and that gender is nothing but a social construct?

    I think you are wrong. Men and women are different, regardless of what you want to be true.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 18 2018, @07:22PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday June 18 2018, @07:22PM (#694664) Journal

    Check out some stuff on the WHO site.

    Done! Nope, I don't see anything you claim to be there.

    Why don't you provide some citations for your claims?

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 18 2018, @09:13PM (2 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday June 18 2018, @09:13PM (#694713) Journal

      Is the blatant lying from this lot getting worse or am I just noticing it more?

      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Monday June 18 2018, @09:56PM (1 child)

        by digitalaudiorock (688) on Monday June 18 2018, @09:56PM (#694721) Journal

        Is the blatant lying from this lot getting worse or am I just noticing it more?

        I think it is getting worse, and it seems to be coming from the top down. It's clearer every day that Trump's degenerated to where most of what he says is provably false to the point of being almost comical, and is clearly aimed only at those who'll believe anything/everything he says. And yea...this fabricated WHO trans stuff or whatever it is...bullshit to perpetuate some myth that anything from any "World" organization or the U.N. or anything un-MAGA must be pure commie-euro-libtard-don't-bother-me-while-I'm-eating-my-freedom-fries bullshit...I guess. All getting really really old, and a bit scary seeing as it works on so many.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @12:57AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @12:57AM (#694772)

          It must be the R team's Trump Derangement Syndrome reaching critical mass.

          This timeline may yet see riots in every major city come late August.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by ben_white on Monday June 18 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)

    by ben_white (5531) on Monday June 18 2018, @08:14PM (#694685)

    but a guy who wants to play Fortnite after a long day at work is obviously mentally ill

    This is not remotely what they are talking about. From TFA: " the condition leads to significant distress and impairment in personal, family, social, educational or occupational functioning." Blowing off some steam after work playing video games doesn't even come close to meeting the definition, and frankly is perfectly healthy behavior. Missing work, getting fired, divorced, and becoming homeless because of playing video games is pathologic behavior and should be studied and when appropriate, treated like other compulsive, destructive behaviors.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @03:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @03:20AM (#694810)

      All those things apply to TV, an entertainment medium consumed mostly by women. You know, "missing household work, getting fired = divorced and becoming homelessalimony dependent".

      I know, Trump [time.com] is the last refuge your blind dogma has left. Carry on in your blind stead. Those who are secure enough to see it for what it is, are not going away.

      It is going to get worse and the blame lies with you.