WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition

1. The purpose of DSM/ICD is often to justify financing treatment:

> Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University ... described the ICD as "the book of real diseases that you can get insurance payments for."

2. Treatment has to be mindful of the specific form of addiction:

> "These are co-morbid conditions," he said. "If you just treat the depression and not gaming, the gaming is likely to come back." This suggests it's a unique condition, he said.

3. No we are not "medicializing everything":

> But Ferguson argued that, if it is a disorder, it seems to be very rare.

NB.

Before criticizing modern psychiatry keep in mind:

1. mental health patients are extreme in their dysfunction, never common.

2. the operation of the brain (, nervous system, etc.) in its interaction with its environment is as liable to breaking as any other part of the body

3. modern clinical psychiatry is an evidenced-based, research-driven field which treats and forms diagnoses on the basis of decades of research into any particular condition. It isnt the 1950s.

WRT

>In one study, he found that when kids stopped being addicted to games, their depression and anxiety got better.

( 1 )

Is this study repeatable? (or does it suffer the fate of many (75%) psychology experiments that cannot be replicated [1]

( 2 )

Instagram, Facebook , -- would those, potentially, addiction-fueled activities, ever become subject to the WHO recommendation ?

[ 1 ] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delive...