Posted on 06/18/2018 5:33:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“I’m not creating a precedent,” said Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, a member of WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, which proposed the new diagnosis to WHO’s decision-making body, the World Health Assembly. Instead, he said, WHO has followed “the trends, the developments, which have taken place in populations and in the professional field.”
However, not all psychologists agree that gaming disorder is worthy of inclusion in the International Classification of Diseases, known as the ICD.
Characteristics of gaming disorder
A diagnosis standard, the ICD defines the universe of diseases, disorders, injuries and other related health conditions. Researchers use it to count deaths, diseases, injuries and symptoms, and doctors and other medical practitioners use it to diagnose disease and other conditions. In many cases, health care companies and insurers use the ICD as a basis for reimbursement.
“One is that the gaming behavior takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery,” he said.
The second feature is “impaired control of these behaviors,” Poznyak said. “Even when the negative consequences occur, this behavior continues or escalates.” A diagnosis of gaming disorder, then, means that a “persistent or recurrent” behavior pattern of “sufficient severity” has emerged, according to the ICD.
A third feature is that the condition leads to significant distress and impairment in personal, family, social, educational or occupational functioning, Poznyak said. The impact is real, he said, and may include “disturbed sleep patterns, like diet problems, like a deficiency in the physical activity.”
Overall, the main characteristics are “very similar” to the diagnostic features of substance use disorders and gambling disorder, he said. Gambling disorder “is another category of clinical conditions which are not associated with a psychoactive substance use but at the same time being considered as addictive as addictions.”
How bout “classifying” liberal disorder accordingly?
playing games is a disorder, but homosexuality ,and cross dressing is not!!!!!!!!
..and yet these clowns consider homosexual behavior “normal”.
seems the shrinks are also in need of some mental help ,and some common sense.
I would think it is an extension or variant of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder.
DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic. DISMANTLE / DESTROY as necessary.
http://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/revised-2018-invoice/en/
Fund your gambling with insurance payouts!
“seems the shrinks are also in need of some mental help ,and some common sense.”
I have read that the psycharists have one of the highest suscide rates. With there so called logic I can see why.
F&G Ping
I get to play a game everyday. Avoid the drunk illegal on the highway. WOO HOO what fun.
I have a disorder to people with disorders. Can I have some money?
Yes, that is what it's all about. People who are too weak to control their actions want healthcare/insurance companies to foot the bills which they aren't responsible enough to pay themselves.
Everything seems to be a illness including the obvious crime of sexual deviants praying upon the young people of America.
I know of a parent who sent her kid to one, and the shrink sided with the kid and made matters worse.
Excellent point.
not overly clear if this is about gambling ??
Oh and attention whoring is also similar behavior, and fits well into the current ‘social media’ being foisted by big business and the media elite
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