AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

[Malevolent]

http://gamepolitics.com/2007/06/25/a...diagnosis-yet/ link to read thru the comments.


Relax - your video game addiction can remain in the closet - at least for a few more years.

The American Medical Association has backed away from a move to declare video game addiction an official diagnostic disorder. As reported by Reuters, the AMA concluded that psychiatrists need to devote additional study to the issue. Addiction experts also voiced opposition to the proposal.
Said Dr. Stuart Gitlow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine:

There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn’t get to have the word addiction attached to it.

Interestingly enough, a finding that game addiction is a real disorder would make it easier for sufferers to get health insurance coverage for treatment.
It now appears as if the issue is off the table in an official sense until the American Psychiatric Association revises its diagnostic manual in 2012.
Not everyone agreed with the decision. Dr. Thomas Allen of the Osler Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, said:

Working with this problem is no different than working with alcoholic patients. The same denial, the same rationalization, the same inability to give it up.

DISCUSS!!

[Feba]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

We already did in another thread. Nobody cared.

Thread over.

[Malevolent]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

Totally different topic if you can read.

[Feba]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

Nope, exact same subject. LURK MOAR.

[Mhurron]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

Nope, exact same subject.

Not really, there's very little about addiction still being mentioned in the other thread.

[Malevolent]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

I know what thread you're talking about. Still its a totay different subject. I see you have no comprehension abilities.

[Feba]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/vid...-heroin-3.html

Like I said. It was already mentioned 25 hours ago, and then it was mentioned again.

And like I said, nobody cared.

[Feba]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

I know what thread you're talking about. Still its a totay different subject. I see you have no comprehension abilities.

The exact same subject was in that thread. I see you don't read anything that you could THEN possibly comprehend in the first place.

[Malevolent]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

Obviously you don't care. So why do you keep posting??

[Feba]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

Because watching you make an ass of yourself is funny?

[Malevolent]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

This thread is about the AMA denying Gamming addiction as a diagnosis...i don't see how that goes into that thread.

[Feba]

Re: AMA Won't Make Video Game Addiction a Diagnosis....Yet

Like I said, you don't read anything in the first place.

I've not only given you a link, but given you a very specific time frame in that thread for when this was originally posted, and further down the page it is posted again in more detail.