'Too much video game time can be a problem', The WHO

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BraLoD said:

zorg1000 said:

Just one of many examples, an 8 year old who spends all his free time playing games on his tablet rather than playing with other kids would fit the bill as well.

Why?

You decide what the kid preffer is wrong and thus it is mentally sick?

Everybody is free to choose with what they spend their time on.

Do you know if the kid's friends mistreats him? If he dislike what they like to do? If the kid finds them boring?

Nope, just pull the crazy gun, it's easier.

Do you like having sex more than anything else and like to do it often? Crazy bastard, you are unfit for society!

Addiction is one thing, mental disorder is another.

You do realize there is a sex addiction too?

Doing anything for 8 hours a day would be an addiction. It could be gaming, reading, watching tv, or it could even be something healthy like working out even. There was a story I watched on tv once where a guy rode his indoor bike basically all day long. The entire time he was working from home, he would be peddling. He had an addiction, a mental disorder, whatever you want to call it.

If you game 8 hours a day, or NEED to game even a couple hours a day, you have an addiction. If you can't go without something, you have a problem.