So we're basically just replacing the word addiction now?
‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization
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#12I'm curious why this needs its own definition, rather than being part of a larger "addiction disorder".
I’m told that the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) was created to help epidemiologists in different countries share data. It may be, and I’m speculating here, that it’s rather easy to get something added to it, as long as there are enough researchers somewhere in the world who want it added.
Someone here must know a little more about the process by which new things are added to the ICD.
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#13A bad parent could easily make a child fit all the criteria given by just being a bad parent.
Something like this should not exist in the ICD. There should be a general addiction disorder that puts forth general criteria for showing that a person has an addiction for something.
This just looks like a scapegoat to me.
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#14I'm curious why this needs its own definition, rather than being part of a larger "addiction disorder".
Because people who don't play games think it's weird that others are interested in things they don't like. So there must be something wrong with them.
There's a good reason why many psychologists and psychiatrists were against the inclusion of this in ICD-11 and why the DSM5 does not list it as an officially recognized disorder either.
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#15Next up Social Media Disorder (SMD), Internet Disorder.. I'd be surprised if the latter isn't a thing already
What about television disorder, Netflix disorder? BBC News seem to be implying that 20 hours per week is too much [1]. I feel like most people that watch TV/Netflix/Youtube etc. would easily watch more than 3 hours a day. They also claim that if you're putting too much meaning on your online friendships that this is a bad thing. For many, their online friendships are the only ones they have, or they will be better and will be longer lasting than their school friendships.
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#16I'm curious why this needs its own definition, rather than being part of a larger "addiction disorder".
Because there is no larger “addiction disorder”, and trying to create one would have a messy and complex definition compared to distinct definitions that happen to share some features.
Yet the same organisation that seems to care so much about giving every little addiction it's own name also lumps every variety of autism under the same umbrella term.
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#17Oh! They've come up with a new disorder again. How nice.
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#18All 3 of the article's points could be applied to any hobby / passion driven profession.
Next up...
Guitar disorder
Karate disorder
Baseball disorder
Fast forward 10 years...
Someone coins the term "hobby disorder" after detecting numerous patterns of people wasting their life away on doing things they enjoy.
Fast forward 20 years...
Being passionate about anything is a thing of the past. Everyone works a corporate job at 1 of 5 companies in the world (people stopped innovating and a few large tech companies took over everything).
Sounds like a good way to begin the journey towards even more income disparity between the 1% and the rest of us.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is no larger “addiction disorder”, and trying to create one would have a messy and complex definition compared to distinct definitions that happen to share some features.
Yet the same organisation that seems to care so much about giving every little addiction it's own name also lumps every variety of autism under the same umbrella term.
This is the same with schizophrenia as well-- which is also a spectrum.
Re: ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization
#20Next up Social Media Disorder (SMD), Internet Disorder.. I'd be surprised if the latter isn't a thing already
What about television disorder, Netflix disorder? BBC News seem to be implying that 20 hours per week is too much [1]. I feel like most people that watch TV/Netflix/Youtube etc. would easily watch more than 3 hours a day. They also claim that if you're putting too much meaning on your online friendships that this is a bad thing. For many, their online friendships are the only ones they have, or they will be better an…
This. Play 2 hours of videogames and babyboomer parents start loosing their minds (but not after spending the whole evening watching TV)