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06/22/2007 02:16:39 PM · #1 |
//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/21/health/main2965003.shtml
Anyone seen this? The American Medical Association is trying to declare video game addiction a psychiatric addiction. I think it's hilarious and somewhat telling about modern American society.
Anyway, anyone want to bring up update button addiction to them? We might all be able to get disability checks.
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06/22/2007 02:25:56 PM · #2 |
| I have been adicted to video games since pong. so what? people can show adictive traits for anything. how many people here are addicted to photography? if someone complains about my video game addiction i just say that at least i am not addicted to punching people in the face, although i have been thinking about trading vices:) |
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06/22/2007 02:57:20 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
I have been adicted to video games since pong. so what? people can show adictive traits for anything. how many people here are addicted to photography? if someone complains about my video game addiction i just say that at least i am not addicted to punching people in the face, although i have been thinking about trading vices:) |
But Elvis, we can get you help. :-D
Edit: and drug research.
Message edited by author 2007-06-22 14:57:34.
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06/22/2007 03:32:06 PM · #4 |
can someone hurry up and move this to rant so i can express how i truely feel about this one?
yeeesh...
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06/22/2007 03:39:33 PM · #5 |
The funny thing is, there's actually a clinic devoted to video game addiction. But it's in Europe. And some of the most fanatical gamers, IMO, are in Asia.
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I think it's hilarious and somewhat telling about modern American society. |
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06/22/2007 04:52:00 PM · #6 |
Anything that is declared a disease or an addiction is fair game for profit making... I mean, once the disease or addiction is declared legimate, there suddenly becomes all kinds of "legitimate" treatments (drugs, psychiatric help, etc).
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06/22/2007 04:54:39 PM · #7 |
I think the AMA needs to recognize the "update" button. I need some drugs!
:-P |
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06/22/2007 05:08:41 PM · #8 |
I read that story too. While studying in Australia, they offered a class on video games. It was about the history of them, the current market, censorships and roadblocks like this. Pretty good class all in all, not to mention the PS2 and Xbox we "needed" for the classroom.
I personally think this is the dumbest thing ever, the whole addiction thing. Too much of anything can be a problem. The real problem is not with these kids, but with their surroundings. If I tried to play 12 hours a day and not eat or let my grades slip my parents would have slapped me into next week. (not literally, they never hit me) How do these parents allow their kids to let everything else in the world go? Its not like drugs or alcohol where they can hide it, they have a TV and a XBox in their room, just get rid of it.
It really shows the lack of parenting. Moderation needs to be an attitude that is embedded early. This also stems to the violence in games being another "problem to society." That is another piece of crap statement that just exploits bad parenting. Why don't these kids know there is a difference between real and fake violence, because their parents never talked about it. TV and Xbox are not babysitters. In that class I took, over 80% of the games rated MA were bought by parents. Do the parents check the content? No. Do the parents play mature games w/ their kid to explain the difference? No.
Video games are not an addiction that needs to be medicated or treated. Its as simple as removing the Xbox or whatever system and making your kid go outside once in a while. Sign them up for baseball or football, buy them a bike or go hiking. This is too stupid to continue writing about. |
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06/22/2007 06:08:11 PM · #9 |
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