Video Game Addiction: Mental Illness?

[Bojack]

Um, these doctors are right? O_o

I will make an exception for MMORPGs, because those can really fuck up people's lives if they overdo it. Basically because they're designed to be addictive timesinks, so that you keep paying the subscription. Too much of anything is bad, and if you're cutting off RL friends so that you don't miss raids you've gone too far. Everything in moderation.

All games have the potential for that you know. MMOs are the most common cases of extreme consequences, but that doesn't automatically exclude other genres. Like any enjoyable experience, people can grow too fond of them and allow them to consume their lives.

Locking yourself in your room to play video games isn't healthy. Video game addiction would be the obvious problem. It may be underlying depression that is causing the addiction, but isn't that true for every other addiction? If video games is this persons escape from a shitty reality that keeps getting shittier because all he/she does is play video games, then it's gotta go. Just like a crackhead that keeps going downhill because of perpetual drug use, or an alcoholic and his booze.

This has been an accepted concept for a while now anyway. <.<