12-01-2018 15:29 via huffingtonpost.co.uk

Gaming Disorder Is Here, And It’s A Good Thing

Concern about addiction to video games, social media or smartphones seems everywhere at the moment, with a growing noise that goes beyond any moral panic. But in addition to Apple investors and former executives of Google and Facebook, the most intriguing communication on these issues has come from a global health body!In December 2017, almost five years after the US introduced the diagnosis of Internet Gaming Disorder, the World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed to include the diagnosis of Gamin
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