” to the 2022 edition of its International Classification of Diseases, which sets global standards for diagnosis.South Korea enjoys ultra-fast broadband and a vibrant internet culture, and internet cafes with powerful high-end computers catering to school-age gamers can be found on many street corners.
“It’ll be a disaster,” said Kim Jung-tae, a professor of game studies at Dongyang University and a veteran game developer who signed onto a task force pledging to fight the disease classification. “The entire ecosystem of the game industry could collapse.” “Alcoholics don’t blame the company that makes the liquor,” said Roh Sung-won, an addiction specialist and professor of psychiatry at Hanyang University Hospital in Seoul. “You don’t stop manufacturing cars because there are automobile accidents.”
Dr. Allen Frances, who chaired the task force that oversaw the production of a past edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of U.S. psychiatry,that recognizing gaming disorder could help some people but also carries the risk of mislabeling “millions of normal recreational gamers.”
It can be addictive
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'Is video game addiction a mental health disorder?' I propose that the question is: Does video game addiction result [cause] in a mental health disorder?
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some of these kid’s talk only in number’s as our gran son showed his home computer and it had lot’s of number’s on - he said my name in number’s is 34.5