Gaming disorder
What is gaming disorder?
Gaming disorder is defined in the draft 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as a pattern of gaming behavior (“digital-gaming” or “video-gaming”) characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.
For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months.
What are your thoughts on this ? I mean , people spend hours of time in social media too to the extent they take more priority over other interests . Tho lesser people does this .
And for some people , gaming is their profession . I mean they play games to feed themselves .
I think we should look into this part:
Those who use gaming as their proffession will have more negative consequences if they stopped gaming (I think at least.)
But there are those who have problems outside the gaming world and use the world for escaping (I know the feeling) until they become unspeperatable from the games even if they wanted to. Those can use a doctor help but I think the problem doesn't lie in games themselves.
And by the way, social media sometimes IS WAY WORSE than games, and games with social media inside (most online games) are way worse than social media. Because both give you a pressure to stay in them on top of your psychological pressure to escape the real world.
As for me, I'm escaping too and I know how that can be a problem (my case isn't as bad as many others I saw.) Giving the disorder the name of 'Gaming disorder' is distracting but it's still a 'disorder' many gamers have.
Yeah , couldnt aggree more to this . And yes ,I can name some professional gamers which escape from their real life problems by playing games since somehow .
Too much of everything is bad yeah ?
I think some people do get caught up in various activities like gaming due to avoiding life circumstances etc (this isn't unique to gaming though - people can avoid problems through various activities). I can't agree that gaming is any worse than any of the other potential activities people use to avoid their problems though. If it is just avoiding problems in the rest of their lives in reality every escape should also be classed as (name of escape) disorder. Gaming is no worse than any other escape. Escapes from stress can be good too and gaming is great for reducing stress, but it is terrible if someone always use something to escape and just never deals with the problems they are trying to escape (this gets tricky when the problem is something out of their direct control though but that's when you despite many failures just have to keep trying).
As for the negative consequences bit, that is too vague. If someone frequently has negative consequences, that is cause for concern and may indicate a behavioural addiction etc. If someone suffers the negative consequences of sleep deprivation from one night out of the blue playing WOW until 2 AM with a partner, that is just a random binge and no intelligent person would think a one off incident indicates a full blown disorder. It is too vague.
Also some people don't have gaming as a profession but do make lets plays etc for a hobby. The hobbyist who puts in a lot of hours isn't disordered but simply motivated and loves their hobby and they may love their hobby enough for it to take preference over another random interest.
Their conditions are too vague but behaviour based addictions can certainly be a thing - just not every case that matches some of their stipulation is a case of that.