when you buy a USB sex toy and play online games where you try to get laid, then yes yes it is.
Smack the doctors who say it's addictive.
If video game "addiction" is a disease, so is religion.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?secti … id=5395066
When she suggested to therapists that Michael had a video game addiction, "nobody was familiar with it," she said. "They all pooh-poohed it."
Last fall, the family found a therapist who "told us he was addicted, period." They sent Michael to a therapeutic boarding school, where he has spent the past six months - at a cost of $5,000 monthly that insurance won't cover, his mother said.
A support group called On-Line Gamers Anonymous has numerous postings on its Web site from gamers seeking help. Liz Woolley, of Harrisburg, Pa., created the site after her 21-year-old son fatally shot himself in 2001 while playing an online game she says destroyed his life.
>>>>> Great now the Insurance companies will have to pay $5000 per month (x 6 months) for gamers that are "addicted". They say up to 15% of gamers are addicted.
I sense a new growth industry - treatment of video junkies. Think about it $30 K per kid. Drug & Alcohol treatment centers typicalyy handle 20-50 in-patients at a time.
I say BF2s sponsors a treatment center - think of the money it would bring in. Chuey would never have to work again !
On a serious note I feel for the woman who lost her son to suicide, heck we live accross the river from each other.
Chances are though if her son killed himself he had more going on than a WoW addiction.
When she suggested to therapists that Michael had a video game addiction, "nobody was familiar with it," she said. "They all pooh-poohed it."
Last fall, the family found a therapist who "told us he was addicted, period." They sent Michael to a therapeutic boarding school, where he has spent the past six months - at a cost of $5,000 monthly that insurance won't cover, his mother said.
A support group called On-Line Gamers Anonymous has numerous postings on its Web site from gamers seeking help. Liz Woolley, of Harrisburg, Pa., created the site after her 21-year-old son fatally shot himself in 2001 while playing an online game she says destroyed his life.
>>>>> Great now the Insurance companies will have to pay $5000 per month (x 6 months) for gamers that are "addicted". They say up to 15% of gamers are addicted.
I sense a new growth industry - treatment of video junkies. Think about it $30 K per kid. Drug & Alcohol treatment centers typicalyy handle 20-50 in-patients at a time.
I say BF2s sponsors a treatment center - think of the money it would bring in. Chuey would never have to work again !
On a serious note I feel for the woman who lost her son to suicide, heck we live accross the river from each other.
Chances are though if her son killed himself he had more going on than a WoW addiction.
World of Warcraft doesn't count. It's not a video game. It's a soul sucking harlot straight from the deepest bowels of hell.
WoW, I couldn't of said that any better myselfBolvisOculus wrote:
World of Warcraft doesn't count. It's not a video game. It's a soul sucking harlot straight from the deepest bowels of hell.
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