New mental illness – video game addiction

2018-02-05 09:51

New mental illness – video game addiction
The world health organization recognizes “gaming disorder” a mental illness and include it in a revised list of the International classification of diseases.

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In the draft gaming disorder is described as an addiction to video games – both online and offline, reports Rus.Media. As described by the who, the disease is characterized by a pattern of persistent or permanently poltoranina gaming behavior.

In this description included the feeling that you can’t control the amount of time spent playing games, and the list of your priorities are higher than all the rest.

“Behavioral pattern often ends with problems in personal, family and social life,” added the doctors concerned.