// GAMING NEWS // Video Game Addiction Is Recognized As a Disease By The WHO
The World Health Organization has just identified gambling disorders as a pathology. This is a loss of control and excessive practice at the expense of everything else.
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) revised by the WHO (World Health Organization) has just been enriched by a new disease: the gaming disorder. It belongs to the family of addictive behaviours such as alcoholism.
The definition
Here is the official definition that has been adopted:
Gaming disorder is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour (‘digital gaming’ or ‘video-gaming’), which may be online (i.e., over the internet) or offline, manifested by:
impaired control over gaming (e.g., onset, frequency, intensity, duration, termination, context);
increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities; and
continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences. The behaviour pattern is of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
The pattern of gaming behaviour may be continuous or episodic and recurrent. The gaming behaviour and other features are normally evident over a period of at least 12 months in order for a diagnosis to be assigned, although the required duration may be shortened if all diagnostic requirements are met and symptoms are severe.
Take a look at Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood, they explained very well all the WHO report!
The video game disorder has been the subject of a long debate within the WHO over the past year and a half. The text was finally adopted unanimously by the members of the 194 member countries of the organization.
As Dr. John Jiao pointed out in a helpful Twitter thread Saturday about gaming disorder (which he refers to as VGA) , it's not about hours put into games. It's about when gaming gets in the way of other, important aspects of life for a long period of time.
Source: Mashable
What do you think about this new disease? I have passed so many hours playing and I can agree with some points but not all of them. What is your opinion?
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