Video Game Addiction: a New Diagnosis?

[demonprince]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIDEO_GAME_ADDICTION?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=CQAP-Sports.html

CHICAGO (AP) -- The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It's video games, which for certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin, some doctors contend.

A leading council of the nation's largest doctors' group wants to have this behavior officially classified as a psychiatric disorder, to raise awareness and enable sufferers to get insurance coverage for treatment.

In a report prepared for the American Medical Association's annual policy meeting starting Saturday in Chicago, the council asks the group to lobby for the disorder to be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association.

AMA delegates could vote on the proposal as early as Monday.

[Bushy]

Oh my fucking God

[Pancake Paraphernalia]

omfg it's jack what's-it'sname.

[Eru_Roraito]

omfg it's jack what's-it'sname.

Jack Shithole

[demonprince]

No its not Jack Thompson.

[susumu]

No its not Jack Thompson.

Seriously?

[Pancake Paraphernalia]

omfg it's jack what's-it'sname.

Jack Shithole

I almost falled in there.

[ncba93ivyase]

The internet and its tremendous stock of porn has torn me away from my gaming addiction.

[Feynman]

I'm not a real gamer. :'(

[demonprince]

I'm not a real gamer. :'(

wtf is a video game :'(