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 I can see the argument that labeling this as a disorder helps institutionalize and normalize treatment for it. But going about it in this manner (the cherrypicking, the one-sided coverage) is a major disservice to everyone involved
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oops, ignore "for people who do think that" in that. Should read, "And I mean, for people who feel as though..."
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