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RE: GAMING ADDICTION – A RISING DISORDER
I like your contribution and its wonderful as a feedback. However, i read a report from World Health Organisation which inspired this topic, and from the first criteria you quoted i could see almost every thing discussed in this article.
Maybe you have stated most of it but my point is, gaming addiction is still a controversial topic and a grey area of psychiatric disorder. That's why I have stated some of the exclusion criteria, to show you that not everything falls under gaming addiction even though it seems that people were addicted to gaming. People with an underlying psychiatric disorder such as MDD could show symptoms which might signify gaming addiction but it can be a form of coping strategy. The grim thing about medical illnesses especially when we are talking about psychiatric disorders, people often misinterpret such condition and can often lead to anxiety. Having such symptoms don't necessarily mean you have it.
By the way, gaming disorder was included in the draft of ICD 11 which is yet to be released. The latest one is ICD 10. We will see whether the final verdict of ICD 11 will include gaming disorder or not. It will be presented at the Seventy-second World Health Assembly for endorsement by the Member States in May 2019. Currently, there is no specific guideline which could help clinicians identified people with gaming disorder.