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First off its not a fucking disease.
We live in a society where pop psychologists will call anything thats negative or self destructive a disease.
I don't buy this type of thinking.
What its called is spending too much time with your hobby.
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Agree 100%, and will too:
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, I recognize that there is a marked difference between psychological and chemical addiction.
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I think people confuse inability to stop with no desire to stop. Having an "addiction" to a video game is not a physical or chemical addiction, so you do not
lack the ability to stop. What you lack is the desire to do so.
As you get into 'harder' addictions, the addiction becomes more and more inability to stop and less and less desire to stop. Both aspects are still there, but physical and chemical addictions can make you physically unable to stop, and in the case of alcohol and barbiturates, fatal to stop.
In the case of a gaming addiction, you're not going to suffer any deleterious health effects by stopping. It has absolutely nothing to do with inability to stop, and everything to do with not having a desire to.
And rightly so. If you have a desire to do something, why not keep doing it? The only time you should consider NOT doing something you strongly enjoy is it if it dramatically cutting into time you 'wish' you had to do OTHER things you enjoy. The trick is always finding a balance of all the things that you enjoy.