DM Cross
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That is exactly my point
withdrawal can be anything.
"Withdrawal can refer to any sort of separation,"
depends. do you enjoy school?
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1719 research paper on addiction (gaming)
Bullshit. It is as much an addiction as anything else, just because it isn't caused by a physical substance doesn't make it any less real.Video game's aren't a damn addiction, it's a lifestyle choice and social mentality disorder.
Bullshit. It is as much an addiction as anything else, just because it isn't caused by a physical substance doesn't make it any less real.
Yes it does. How does a video game change the chemistry of someone forcing them into a state where it's not just that they want to play them but HAVE to play them without being stricken by an inability to cope without that change? It doesn't. If video games can be classified as an addiction then I'm addicted to... umm... yellow.
Because it's not. That is a social disorder, there is a difference. People that don't like to be around other people and crowds and get shaky and uncomfortable, are they addicted to being alone? No, they have a social disorder. People that don't go out into sunlight and freak out. Are they addicted to the dark? No, it is probably a phobia or some form of extreme mental disorder, and very few people will try and pass it off as addiction and those that do are going to be shunned away because the idea of it is idiotic. How is this different?
It's different because phobias are a fear of something whereas an addictive disorder is involved with being attached to something. If people avoid sunlight, it's not an addiction to the dark so much as a revulsion to sunlight. If people avoid crowds, it's not an addiction to aloneness so much as an avoidance of crowds. You're swapping the cause and effect to pretend that phobias and addictions are the same thing. The same thing could be switched around by claiming that addictions are phobias by suggesting that an opiate addiction is the same as a fear of clear-headedness, or that a work addiction is the same as a fear of relaxation. In many cases, particularily where black and white one-or-the-other lines can be drawn, there could potentially be an overlap between the two as a result of logic requiring it, but not always. It should be clear that addictions are defined by compulsive need to do something whereas phobias are defined by an unreasonable fear of something; that addictions are the attachment to a single thing whereas phobias are the fear of a single thing. The distinction is not difficult to make.People that don't like to be around other people and crowds and get shaky and uncomfortable, are they addicted to being alone? No, they have a social disorder. People that don't go out into sunlight and freak out. Are they addicted to the dark? No, it is probably a phobia or some form of extreme mental disorder, and very few people will try and pass it off as addiction and those that do are going to be shunned away because the idea of it is idiotic. How is this different?