Posts Tagged ‘American Psychiatric Association’

The 12 Step Program: Video Game Addiction

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News just in from the University of the Bleeding Obvious and the Research School of Stuff We Already Know. Apparently gaming is addictive.. So much so that according to Jerald J. Block, from the American Psychiatric Association, it merits inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

This probably comes as no surprise to you as you sit reading today’s Incomplete Gamer post in your underwear, bleary eyed, smelly and unwashed, knocking back another Red Bull, and scraping the remainder of last night’s spaghetti dinner that you ate cold and straight from the tin during a forty-eight hour Oblivion marathon.

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