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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos when you were younger did your parents ever complain that you were addicted to video games after you'd been hanging out in the Mushroom Kingdom for too long I mean maybe you're still hearing that from some members of your family well guess what the World Health Organization not to be confused with that band from the UK classified gaming disorder as a real health problem earlier this year so did that scolding that you were given about how much time you spent in front of a screen actually have some merit to it well it turns out the answer is maybe but it's important to keep in mind that whether you have an actual gaming addiction isn't predicated on just how long you spend playing in fact plenty of people frequently engage in lengthy gaming sessions without suffering from a true addiction instead the folks who classify gaming addiction as an actual disease focus on the ways that gaming can affect an individual's life specifically the who focuses on whether a gamer has difficulty putting the controller down when they want or need to do other things and whether they feel compelled to play games like a 15 year old boy from Britain who missed an entire year of school playing fortnight rather than simply gaming because it's an activity that they enjoy and to be fair that definition does actually sound fairly reasonable and it also sounds a lot like how people decide if they have a problem with other more traditional vices such as substance use or gambling there's obviously a much greater risk of losing staggering amounts of money if you feel like you have to gamble as opposed to spending a few bucks on the occasional lotto ticket but if gaming addiction is so similar to other forms of dependence why is its classification by the WHO generating so much backlash after all the who said that it based its decision on the fact that many people around the world were being treated for the same symptoms well many in the gaming community feel that this is just yet another undeserving black eye for the industry after renewed public discussion about whether video games are partially to blame for things like school violence despite the fact that a causal link has never been proven there and there does seem to be merit to the argument that the real problem for those who are addicted to something is the state of mind rather than the actual focus of their specific addiction and that a person who's addicted to video games might have the same compulsive feelings as a person who's addicted to smoking junk food or alternative forms of entertainment there's also concerned that whose classification is reflective of a moral panic in which video games are simply a punching bag for societal and health issues that may actually be caused by different things and this view isn't just widespread among gamers but some psychologists also believe that the decision to list gaming disorder specifically in the international classification of diseases was premature and based on weak evidence and even the who itself admits that the alleged disorder only affects a small number of people and there was actually an Oxford University study in 2016 indicating gaming addiction might affect only about 3% of gamers at most but there are fears that the mere fact it's being recognized as a disease will result in heightened scrutiny on the game industry and on individual gamers themselves whose passion for their hobby could easily be mistaken as addiction to someone who doesn't share the same interests but with specialized clinics for treating compulsive gaming sprouting up around the world and with some countries like South Korea even looking at banning children and teens from online gaming during certain hours who exactly is right here well we aren't doctors here at Tech kwikki but here's what we can say with a fair degree of 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