At what point does a leisure activity turn into an addiction?
What's leisure and what's game addiction in the 21st century? - 0 views
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You can be sure the hours spent by many during this World Cup will easily reach the kind off of hours that could be accused of being problematic; especially if you include: watching it, talking about it, watching/listening to people talking about it, playing it, and mood changes as a result of it...
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In the modern developed world, the dominant leisure activity is watching television, followed by other leisure activities like sports and entertaining friends. There’s no evidence that game playing is more dangerous than these other leisure activities
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People watch television for far more time than they play video games. In the U.S., people watch an average of 4.5 hours of TV every day. That’s more time than they spend reading, relaxing, socializing, participating in sports, playing digital games and using computers – combined.
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New tech 'addictions' are mostly just old moral panic - 0 views
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Not everybody in the medical community is on board with such an assessment
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a group of more than two dozen doctors and researchers sent an open letter to the WHO in 2016, arguing that formalizing the disorder lacked scientific merit and could cause real harm to patients.
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the current operationalization leans too heavily on substance use and gambling criteria, and the lack of consensus on symptomatology and assessment of problematic gaming
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Is Gaming Disorder a Thing? - YouTube - 0 views
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