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- Focus mostly on game
- Isolation from social contact
- Recorded deaths from exhaustion for playing for long periods
- Compares to compulsive gambling
- Can jeopardize jobs and relationships
- Treatment involves detox
- Similar to internet addiction
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Video Game Addiction occurs when playing a video game becomes the main focus in life, and one becomes dependent on playing the game. Video Game Addiction involves abandonment of family, friends and normal activities in order to play a video game. It becomes an addiction when it has a significant negative impact in real life, i.e. doing poorly in school, losing a job, or ruining a marriage.
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Holistic and Alternative Treatment
- MotherNature.com: Video Game Addiction: Tips to Tame the Kid Who's Hooked
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- Slashdot: Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder
- Gaming Today: Yet Another Video Game Addiction News Story
- CBS News blog: Video Games -- Are You Addicted?
- Center for Internet Addiction Recovery: AMA considering Video Game Addiction a disorder
- The Wall Street Journal: Health Blog: AMA to Vote on Video Game Addiction
- The Daedalus Project: The Psychology of MMORPGS: Addiction
- Game Addiction: Adults Spend More Time Gaming than Teens
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