7 Reasons World of Warcraft Addictions Are Not Real ...

An addiction includes psychological dependency as well, what you're calling up is the historical and outdated definition of addiction that was originally coined soley for psychoactive substance addiction. Guess what - the term addiction is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences, as deemed by the user himself to his individual health, mental state, or social life.

It's break up.

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I have to agree with you Aprille, especially on of a couple of points. As a player, there was definitely a time when I played way too much and felt fairly compulsive about doing so. It was also a time when there was a lot of turmoil in my life. As I was able to manage my life better, my play time gradually tapered off to more like hobby. As far as being the anti social type in mom's basement, I am married ten years and a father of 3. And as far as my favorite hobby goes, I am at home in the evening playing after I put the kids to bed, not away from my family on the golf course or hanging with the boys at the bar, I can step away at any moment if someone needs me.

I once met a lady who told me all she does is work, which she does not enjoy, and then goes home to work on researching her family tree. That is her life. Nothing else for 2 years. No friends, no family functions, rare other entertainment. She seemed like a normal, rational, able to hold a conversation, happy as you can be in thie modern world without being very lucky person. Does she have a problem? Should you make a website for her to tell her she has a problem? Should she be out exercising and socialising instead of sitting at home doing something that isnt impacting on other people? What the hell is the difference what sort of things you do to pass the time, because, let's face it, that's what we are all doing. Some think it matters, some don't. Thats just the way it is. If these people weren't playing WoW, they would be playing Dungeons and Dragons, or watching endless hours of Star Trek (didnt't TV used to be the devils spawn satan addiction that was creating mass murderers? or is this warcraft now...?), or reading counless novels set in fantasy worlds, or building model railways or whatever the hell anti socials did before WoW was around. The problem is not the game itself, it is the persons choice of how they want to live their life. Unfortunately in this busy stressfull world more and more people are becoming socially withdrawn and fed up because society is so focused on greed and brainwashing humans to be plugged in to their matrix, that if you are not doing this there is something wrong with you. Alright cool, if you capitalist pigs want to take over the world with money and possessions, then you can shut the hell up and let the ones who arent interested in that sit there and play their stinking computer game. Who created the society can support it, or provide an alternative. So if warcraft is making this problem evident...then you should be thanking it and fixing they way the stupid world is run. There is obviously something wrong with society if more and more people can find happiness in solitude. The solution is not to step out of the computer box, the solution is to step out of society's box (if you can, maybe you'll be forever stuck there), because there is more to life than option 1. 2. or 3. presented to you by Joe Government Bloggs and Co. I haven't managed it yet. My View. Sometime Warcraft Addict. Alltime "hurry the heck up and get this over with" Addict

However, they are considering putting it in the DSM V (the bible of mental health disorders, the 5th version is work-in-progress), not warcraft specifically, but gaming addiction in general. is there any evidence that it does not in fact change processes in the brain? What about reports where people committed suicide after hours of playing? it is certainly not pathological for many players but for some it might be. there could be underlying issues (social problems for example) that put them into a vicious circle where the escape into the WoW becomes the reason to get up in the morning.