The WHO's decision to officially designate gaming as addictive is prejudicial, and media coverage of it is even worse. This NYT article only points to people dwelling in basements and contemplating suicide: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/business/video-game-addiction.html … but doesn't point to it as a nuanced issue, cont.
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and the barrier for being called a workaholic is a lot higher, imagine calling someone working 20 hours a week a workaholic lol, like wow dude spend some time with your family and friends instead of spending a few hours out of the house
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You pretty much summed up my thoughts. Workaholics, Netflix binge watching... generically saying "addiction is bad". I do agree that gaming falls under that same bubble, but cherry picking gaming to be a disorder feels selective and blackboxes the issue by saying games are bad.
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Agreed. And I mean, for people who do think that people who feel as though they can't quit those things despite efforts to, or who feel like those things are impairing other parts of their life, they should be able to seek treatment without being laughed at
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