You may soon suffer from gaming disorder
 

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/health/min...ime/ar-BBH6lY2

ICD (and in the US: DSM) are manuals that standardise the use of special medical and psychological terminology, listing criteria/symptoms that must be fulfilled to name the complex by a given diagnosis term. The intention was originally to make international research and science communication comparable, later interaction with health insuring companies became another big use (where it already started to derail, imo).

Oh I suffer alright. My gameplays are most disorderly, me never doing what the designers want me to do. Panzer General 2 was never the same after clearing the frontline with a scout car... I need help.

I quit playing internet games and concentrate on the far more important and productive activity of model railroading. I much better feel...

Most likely was a sufferer when I was a lot younger.

Best thing I ever did was to stop playing video games years ago. More time to read books listen to music and go out for a nice walk.

Now you sound old, man. Really old. :O:

Get a VR set. Its a fountain of youth. :D

Serious, my taste for games has changed, and much of the efforts I put into it time ago, I do no longer put into it anymore. But what I do, I still enjoy a smuch as 20 years ago, nmostly realistic racing. And this morning I did my first dive into orienting myself inside a B737 cockpit - in real 3D.

Completely new ball game. I found almost nothing, now that the panels stretch above and beside and below me, everywhere. :haha: After the PMDG 737 in 2D, I thought I would know where what is. But then , I havent flown since years, so that may serve as my excuse.

Treat yourself to some fresh air and a nice walk, get out the prison..i mean the house. :)

Yea parts of my body are older than my age. :haha:

I've take up astrophotography, currently locating and photographing landing areas of the old Soviet Luna and American Apollo missions.

"They'll get my controller when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!..."...


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Quite a few people in this forum have dismissed the whole idea that video gaming could have a negative mental effect.

So you're saying if you're mental, video gaming will make you better? :06:

Seriously, like anything else, it can be become an addiction. :wah:

As with everything moderation is key :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

I really believe any excessiveness be it addiction to gaming, drugs, whatever, is more a sign that something is out of whack to begin with. A few years ago, there was a news story about some kid comitting suicide after his parents told their kid he couldn't play his fav game anymore. That's not about gaming addiction, that is something deeper and the game took the blame. A lot like how movies have taken the blame when someone went postal, this idea that it is the games and movies that make monsters, not the other way around, that this whacky world is what gives the creators of these games and movies the inspiration to show how mad it all has become.

A different thing is that when a person is already far gone, then games or movies can be catalysts for sinking in deeper but the issues were already there and the unwillingness to accept that is what ticks me off.

I do not dismiss it. I just do not put too much trust in political or other administrative instances to assess when something has become addictive and when it still is not an addiction. In Germany, once or twice per year somebnody steps forward s and says video games kill the souls of out children. And then they com e up with stereotypes and examples that ride 15 years behind the actual time - and wonder why they are not being taken serious.

Its too often a clueless gang of pseudo-experts wanting to establish the standards by which to judge these things.

At the same time, the anti-social consequences of excessive use of Facebook and Twitter and what it means if the avertgae Joe, so they say, looks 150 times per day at his smartphone and does so almost by reflex, is being ignored.

There are dangers, no doubt. I only have doubts that it is the right people wanting to go after them.