Video Game Addiction : A Mental Disorder?
June 23, 2007 2 Comments
From Gamespot News :
The American Medical Association will be deciding this month whether or not to recommend that video game and Internet addiction should be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, reports the Wall Street Journal on its Health Blog.
The House of Delegates, the AMA’s decision-making body, will vote on the issue later this month. If it decides that excessive gaming constitutes a mental disorder, the decision will then be passed upward to the American Psychiatric Association, which has the final say on these matters.
Marginalized socially, yes. I haven’t gotten into WOW or Final Fantasy XI (that didn’t get too popular, I don’t know why that’s listed up there) but I have friends who’ve been hooked. They don’t mention in their reports that in real-life social environments, the physical appearance of a person comes under judgement as well, where as in the virtual reality world, all appearances are common themes and products of that created universe.
Yes it has affected us all even if just a little bit…