Gaming Addiction is now a disorder, according to World Health Organization
I'm not surprised.
Symptoms include:
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impaired control over gaming (frequency, intensity, duration)
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increased priority given to gaming
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continuation or escalation of gaming despite negative consequences
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Control your thoughts and feelings and don't allow your thoughts and feelings to control you (actions and behavior).
Achieve control by focusing your attention for 1-2 minutes on thoughts and feelings to bring them into your conscious awareness.
Negative thoughts and feelings will dissipate, while positive thoughts and feelings will be amplified.
If at first you have minimal results, do it again. Practice. Similar to paradoxical intention used by Viktor Frankl, Austrian doctor.
weldy
Level 4
May 30, 2019
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I am always irked by our society's readiness to classify behavioral patterns as "mental disorders."
AtheistReader
Level 7
May 30, 2019
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Although they call it an addiction, other studies say there are also some benefits that come from gaming
snytiger6
Level 9
May 30, 2019
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What benefits?
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Sitting all day causes obesity, lack of muscle tone and heart disease.
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Lack of social skills.
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Isolation = loneliness.
@LiterateHiker The benefits are more in the lines of brain functi9on and some coordination and dexterity functions. [mentalfloss.com]
The strange thing about that is I was addicted to pinball in my twenties. I managed to break out of it but it was debilitating. Why now I ask? I am sure there were others like me at that time but we weren't gambling so I am guessing the addiction went under the wire. The symptoms were identical to those cited above.
Geoffrey51
Level 8
May 30, 2019
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Gambling has always been an addiction for some. English aristocracy have throughout history redistributed their wealth by gambling away their entire fortune....and less wealthy gamblers have always been as badly affected. In the end it is a freedom of choice decidsion .. what can you do to prevent people self harming?
ShadowAmicus
Level 8
May 29, 2019
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I admit it : I was addicted to "GAME of THRONES" 
Merseyman1
Level 9
May 29, 2019
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I would take it beyond gaming. Cellphones are now a near universal "accessory".
seattlepanda
Level 7
May 29, 2019
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Some call it cyberdependancy.
@seattlepanda, @QuidamOutrepont
Internet addiction is a real disorder. Internet addiction treatment centers have opened around the world.
@LiterateHiker ...and so widespread few even consider it a disorder...
Treatment is difficult because they often return to a circle of fellow addicts and get right back into it...it is not as easy as turning off the device...
thinktwice
Level 8
May 29, 2019
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Yes that is so easy to do
Any behavior that activated the brain’s reward center can be as addictive as drugs
A2Jennifer
Level 8
May 29, 2019
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