The World Health Organization Has Deemed Gaming Addiction An Actual Mental Disorder (Video)

The World Health Organization has made gaming addiction an actual mental disorder, even putting it into the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases!

It’s official title is “gaming disorder” and people do genuinely suffer from it just like any other addiction.

Evan Porter, 16, is so young yet has already been to a rehab facility because his gaming addiction was so bad. His mother, Karen said it got to the point he was up all night, not going to school and actually losing weight because of his addiction.

Porter said it actually is somewhat harder to step away from a technology addiction than other kinds like drugs and alcohol because it is everywhere. A recovering alcoholic can just not go to the bar or just not drink but we use and need technology to function at this point.

We can’t even imagine, that would be like us trying to recover from our collective pizza addiction!

Source: CNN