GameRecoil -> -> Compulsive Gaming Doesn't Mean You're Addicted

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  Just because you play Gears of War 2 from the time you wake up til the time you go to sleep and ignore everything around you for the time in between, that doesn't mean you're addicted to gaming.

   

  According to BBC News, a clinic in Amsterdam that specializes in treating compulsive gamers has realized that 90% of them are not addicted. They've also realized it's not a psychological problem, but rather, a social problem.

   

  For example, the article talks about a boy named George, which obviously isn't his real name since no one has been named George since 1953. Anyway, George plays Call of Duty for 10 hours a day because, basically, he's a loser in real life and no one likes him. By going online, he can pretend to be someone he's not: cool, aggressive, a bad-ass. And he's accepted because no one can see him. Seems pretty logical, but it took a gaming clinic in Europe to tell me that.

   

  Fortunately, I'm starting my own clinic in which case I put my ass in the client's face and tell them to stop tapping A and tap this. It snaps them right out of it, and I only charge $3,500 and a bottle of ass sanitizer.

   

  For the entire article, click here.

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  Posted November 25th, 2008

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