June 25, 2007
The AMA says I'm not Addicted!
Or at least, they need to think about it a little more. The American Medical Association met a few days ago in an annual meeting to debate the inclusion of new diseases, including video game addiction. So that means no chance of claiming it on our health insurance.
Of course, the AMA did suggest the American Psychological Association consider it in their next diagnostic manual, to be released in 2012.
However, a few doctors did come to the conclusion that we shouldn't play too much...guess we can have too much of a good thing.
"The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising," said Dr. Louis Klaus, of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center.
It is still possible that video game addiction could be voted in by the 555 AMA voting delegates, but it's pretty unlikely.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070624/tc_nm/addiction_videogames_dc
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Of course, the AMA did suggest the American Psychological Association consider it in their next diagnostic manual, to be released in 2012.
However, a few doctors did come to the conclusion that we shouldn't play too much...guess we can have too much of a good thing.
"The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising," said Dr. Louis Klaus, of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center.
It is still possible that video game addiction could be voted in by the 555 AMA voting delegates, but it's pretty unlikely.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070624/tc_nm/addiction_videogames_dc
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The whole concept of "addiction" has been so badly abused that it's a joke. "Video Game Addiction" is just a silly concept in general - it's tantamount to creating a disorder based solely on one behavior when other (already diagnosed) conditions are giving rise to the behavior. For example, someone with "Video Game Addiction" might just be badly depressed. They could be exhibiting symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The whole argument is akin to saying that the guy in Slingblade is addicted to "nanners."
Singling out video games for their own special disease is nothing but a ham-handed way of giving legislators the nod to begin telling us how to live our lives "for our own good" and we all know how well that tends to work out. I'd rant about it, but someone has already put it more eloquently than I:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - CS Lewis
Singling out video games for their own special disease is nothing but a ham-handed way of giving legislators the nod to begin telling us how to live our lives "for our own good" and we all know how well that tends to work out. I'd rant about it, but someone has already put it more eloquently than I:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - CS Lewis
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