Gaming addicts don’t exist
In a bold, yet startlingly obivious, move the world’s only gaming addiction treatment centre has admitted that chronic gamers are not gaming addicts. After two years of operation the clinic in Amsterdam says that it has become clear that 90% of excessive gamers are merely poorly socialized. The other 10% are compulsive in general and regularly exhibit addiction behaviour in other areas. These people find actual help in the clinic’s abstinence programs.
With the young fella that recently ran away, and subsequently died, after being banned playing his XBox, you’d think there’d be more critical discussion of addiction in general and less of the science-free garbage that Dr. Phil and his semi-conscious ilk spew. Instead we are bombarded with the idea that games are inherently addicting and need regulation like other dangerous subtances. What it sets up is the abdication of responsibility that parents and families have with respect to the welfare of their children.
There are those individuals that have low impulse control when presented with certain things and are easily addicted to a variety of substances and activities. It has been shown that many of these people do well with strict control regimens. For the rest of them, improved socialization is likely to do the trick.
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