curmudgeon
2007-06-25 19:34:36 UTC
Are any of your children suffering from *VGAD*?
Video Game Addictive Disorder!
Do not worry, help may soon be on the way.
Some medical experts claim that video games can be as addictive as heroin,
and they want the addiction added to the ever-growing list of psychiatric
disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's mental illness
manual.
If that were to happen, all kinds of unintended things just might follow.
Any health plans that now cover mental illness will have to pay for
treatment to wean young children away from the latest violent crop of video
games.
So what if it raises the cost of health care premiums for everyone else.
It is a disease for pity's sake.
And drug companies will no doubt create a new wonder pill to assist with
your Childs effort to go cold turkey from the computers joy stick.
However not everyone has joined the video-game addiction bandwagon.
There more sensible medical experts say that it is nothing more than a
bad-habit and it would be wrong to classify it as an official psychiatric
malady.
Perhaps those rational voices will prevail when the American Medical
Association takes up the question at its annual policy meeting in Chicago
this week.
The debate, expected to be intense, could come as early as today.
And, if the voices of common sense are to be successful in keeping video
games addiction off the list of officially recognized psychiatric ailments,
perhaps they can offer this prescription to parents worried about their
children's becoming video-game addicts.
Get rid of the Game Boy and lock up the Play Station.
The greatest gift you can spend on your children is your time.
"There are no enemies in science just anomalies"
Video Game Addictive Disorder!
Do not worry, help may soon be on the way.
Some medical experts claim that video games can be as addictive as heroin,
and they want the addiction added to the ever-growing list of psychiatric
disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's mental illness
manual.
If that were to happen, all kinds of unintended things just might follow.
Any health plans that now cover mental illness will have to pay for
treatment to wean young children away from the latest violent crop of video
games.
So what if it raises the cost of health care premiums for everyone else.
It is a disease for pity's sake.
And drug companies will no doubt create a new wonder pill to assist with
your Childs effort to go cold turkey from the computers joy stick.
However not everyone has joined the video-game addiction bandwagon.
There more sensible medical experts say that it is nothing more than a
bad-habit and it would be wrong to classify it as an official psychiatric
malady.
Perhaps those rational voices will prevail when the American Medical
Association takes up the question at its annual policy meeting in Chicago
this week.
The debate, expected to be intense, could come as early as today.
And, if the voices of common sense are to be successful in keeping video
games addiction off the list of officially recognized psychiatric ailments,
perhaps they can offer this prescription to parents worried about their
children's becoming video-game addicts.
Get rid of the Game Boy and lock up the Play Station.
The greatest gift you can spend on your children is your time.
"There are no enemies in science just anomalies"