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Re: Gaming disorder. Probably because people were getting addicted to alcohol long before they discovered other things to get addicted to. So aholic became the generic suffix for  describing an addiction. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345172#p345172

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Re: Gaming disorder. I've seen another way of looking at alcoholism/gam bling addiction/sexual addiction/ drug addiction/ shopping addiction. Some argue that these aren't separate illnesses, but actually one only, and that is called addictive personality. Having an addictive personality

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Re: Gaming disorder. goes to prove my point though; words for everything under the sun that seem abnormal.  Tell me why that's even necessary. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345104#p345104 ___ Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Gaming disorder. lol pedantic I know, but why do people insist on using the suffix aholic at the end of any addiction? there is for example, no such thing as shopahol, therefor you can't be addicted to it. people are addicted to shopping of course, but it should have a proper word

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Re: Gaming disorder. and no automotive maker would ever think about possibly creating a car or truck that doesn't run on some sort of fuel someone else can make a million off of. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345076#p345076

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Re: Gaming disorder. Heaven forbid that there should ever be a cure for addiction, that would put all the addiction clinics and halfway houses and such out of business.Formalized medicine isn't concerned with curing disease because there's no money in it, instead they focus on treating

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Re: Gaming disorder. is there a disorder for creating disorders yet?  I mean, I know about hypochondriacs, but seriously!  It seems like every year we add a new one to the list!  We could claim that there's a disorder for just about anything under the sun if we sit around long enough

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Re: Gaming disorder. I used to be a huge gamer. I once when I was 8 played Super Mario RPG on the SNES for 13 hours without eating or going to the bathroom even. I was fine but I can see what could've happened and I know this sort of thing happens in South Korea a lot as they are some

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Re: Gaming disorder. @5 well of course its not normal, that's what we're discussing. But what is normal really, when you think about it, what is normal. Society's ideal of what someone should be? Your parents view, your friends, your partner? All these things try to pull you in different

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Re: Gaming disorder. too much of anything is bad for you.  I do mean anything! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=344989#p344989 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Gaming disorder. Indeed. I remember hearing about another death involving someone playing Starcraft for over 24 hour straight or something like that. They only got up to use the bathroom. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=344966#p344966

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Re: Gaming disorder. I know this thing with game disorder and that is not normal.I know some people, but I can not do that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=344922#p344922 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: Gaming disorder. My dad, as an ex psychiatrist will tell you that most psychiatric conditions are about exaggerating something to the point it becomes  seriously harmful. Everyone gets depressed on occasion, but when your so depressed you can't stand up or take care of yourself

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Re: Gaming disorder. Fortunately, as much as I love computer games, I've never gotten so lost in them that I'd forget the real world and the necessity of living in it.But I've heard plenty of stories of people getting addicted to World of Warcraft to the exclusion of everything else

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Re: Gaming disorder. I don't play like I used to, but this one game came out and I played it for 14 hours straight. I started playing at 8 in the morning, and I got kind of hungry. Thought it was lunch time, when I walked away from the computer, I was shocked to discover it was dark