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Topic	WHO Recognizes Video Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder
BlameAnesthesia 06/20/18 8:53:37 PM #68:	Blue_Dream87 posted... Categories only exist to help figure out treatment anyways This is key right here. The labels help researchers study associations because it standardizes populations when you have groups of patients who meet the criteria for a diagnosis versus not. Such that even if the disorder is simply a "syndrome" with no ties to an organic disease, you still find correlates amongst people who exhibit that behavior relative to those who do not. Which helps with figuring out treatments. It also helps clinicians because specific addictions might have underlying risk factors or associations with other seemingly unrelated disorders to an untrained eye. --- https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png <cite>BlameAnesthesia posted [p:903661369] in WHO Recogn... [t:76733738]...</cite> <quote><cite>Blue_Dream87 posted...</cite> <quote>Categories only exist to help figure out treatment anyways</quote> This is key right here. The labels help researchers study associations because it standardizes populations when you have groups of patients who meet the criteria for a diagnosis versus not. Such that even if the disorder is simply a "syndrome" with no ties to an organic disease, you still find correlates amongst people who exhibit that behavior relative to those who do not. Which helps with figuring out treatments. It also helps clinicians because specific addictions might have underlying risk factors or associations with other seemingly unrelated disorders to an untrained eye. --- https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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