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ChainedRedone posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Idk, these days? dissociative disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, agoraphobia off the top of my head.

Edit: oh, avoidant personality disorder, and a couple related disorders.

So you're saying drug use disorders doesn't explain it well because they're probably depressed? Do you think someone who Gambles their life savings away simply has an anxiety disorder, or perhaps they're just avoidant and therefore gambling addiction is a stupid label?

None of those disorders explains the compulsion of addiction.

The proposed disorder doesn't describe gaming as a compulsion. Insofar as its described literally any of these other diagnoses would be more helpful to the patient as it is seeking treatment for a root cause, not for a past time behavior that has nothing to back it as compulsory in itself.

I'm not saying gaming can't be addictive. It's just silly to paint it so broadly. May as well diagnose everyone that comes in with generalized anxiety disorder, give them some Paxil, and call it a day.

If it's there to describe a more manic behavior where someone seriously can't stop to do things like eat on a regular basis, it needs to be clarified better than it is. But then I think it might just fall into OCD.
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