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'Gaming Disorder' Is a Now an Official Medical Condition, According to the WHO
Nearly anywhere you go, it's easy to find children and adults alike transfixed by their phones, and while texting and social media certainly claim a big part of that attention, increasingly it's gaming that's drawing us in.
At the World Health Organization's World Health Assembly on Saturday, member states officially recognized gaming addiction as a modern disease. Last year, the WHO voted to include gaming disorder as an official condition in the draft version of its latest International Classification of Diseases (ICD); the vote finalizes that decision. The WHO's ICD, currently in its 11th edition, serves as the international standard for diagnosing and treating health conditions.
According to Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesperson for the WHO, the move is "based on reviews of available evidence," and reflects general agreement among experts around the world that some people show a "pattern of gaming behavior characterized by impaired control," prioritizing gaming over other daily responsibilities, including attending school or work and keeping social appointments.
According to the WHO experts who analyzed studies on gaming behavior, people's use of gaming is different from their use of the internet, social media, online gambling and online shopping. There isn't sufficient data, they say, to indicate that people's reliance on those is a "behavioral addiction" the way gaming can be.
Previously: World Health Organization Will Recognize "Gaming Disorder"
World Health Organization Officially Lists "Gaming Disorder" in ICD
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:04PM (6 children)
Have they recognized Trump Disorder Syndrome? If they're going to recognize silly shit, they might as well get TDS out there.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:08PM (1 child)
They're going to wait until Trump's third term.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:03PM
3rd term!?! When the hell will that begin? After all, aren't we extending his 1st term by 2 years to make up for the 2 years that the Mueller investigation stole from him?
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(Score: 4, Informative) by ikanreed on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:13PM (2 children)
My god you can't even regurgitate your own dumb meme correctly.
TDS stands for "Trump derangement syndrome" which copied off "Obama derangement syndrome"(Oops he had the wrong mustard on his burger! WEEKLONG SCANDAL!) which copied off "Bush Derangement Syndrome"(Oops we murdered a million people with a fabricated cassus belli, and tortured innocents how deranged to be angry at). Looking at google books ngrams, the concept of "[president] derangement syndrome" started with bill clinton, but I don't recall personally hearing it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:32PM (1 child)
Woosh?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:46PM
No, I got the dumb joke. I'll explain it in an exercise to make the completely unfunny even less funny:
1. They are changing what things are deemed mental illnesses to correspond with recent trends.
2. Some people are very angry about current affairs in politics
3. We invented a meme to joke about those people being mentally ill
4. Wouldn't it be hilarious if we deemed those people actually mentally ill
That's it. That's the joke. It's not hard to get, because it's really the basest of wit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:14PM
They're renaming Democrat disorder to something more descriptive... Head up their own ass syndrome.