Hands up who has not ever been locked up in Arkham Asylum accused of andante danger because of his terrible and sadistic video game addiction. I guess despite all the differences we have we live together these pages, if we had to find a common point at which support each other (and not to fight, as is usual around here) would love that we process these small pieces of digital entertainment and video games.
But friends, beware that as in every psychological disorder the barrier between love and addiction, and later between addiction and madness is thin and can pass it at any time. Although that's not me talking, it says Doctor Jerald Block, one of the few psychiatrists in the world specializing in disorders caused by video games, in an interview for the Boston Globe and talking about online gaming. According
Dr. Block psychiatry has to evolve and begin to assimilate concepts of video games to more effectively treat patients suffering from such terrible addiction.
"There is a language barrier, many doctors have no idea what a guild or hell does get to level 60. Therefore, many patients do not seek help players in the experts and go to online support groups. "
Although for the addiction expert, the problem is not the cause that makes the poor crazy player, according to Block, ballast is that socially you can not admit that he is engaged in a video game and therefore can not seek or find the necessary help.
"Socially, is much better seen as a porn addict to video games. Somehow society understands the porn as something that we all see from time to time, something that people do and in extreme cases you can see a psychiatrist for help. But being addicted to a game is very difficult to admit because the games, yet are seen as children. "
" Experience shows me that the average player who is truly engaged in this type of game (MMORPG) has an average age of about 30 years. What happens is that studies that both the attention of the press, those typical of children fully crazed video game use, poorly made. We study the type of person and it is wrong before, we think that games are for kids and we were wrong. "
" Among children and adolescents is much easier to talk about video games, the adults remain in secret. It is as if society might think, instead of making love to your wife or husband, or feeding their children or working to earn money to take home, these adults are playing video games. "
Still, Dr. Block is convinced that the factor influencing people's addiction is not the game itself. This is not the unhealthy relationship with an entertainment product, nor it is an unhealthy addiction to surfing the internet (internet addicts talking about) the problem goes further and establishes a direct relationship with the "pathological use of a computer. " People
personal or emotional circumstances found in computer use an escape and become crazy.
"The key question is: How would you react if your hard drive crashes? Imagine you live more than 15 hours a day hooked to the computer. Would be a significant other, almost a relationship. "
" Some of the recent cases of people who go crazy and start shooting in the middle of a school, have a factor linking them. Before he died, it destroyed the hard drive of your computer.
For example the case of Cho, the Virginia Tech shooting two people covered with blood, shower, knows that the police are coming, plans to kill 30 others, but instead of launching into it immediately the first thing is go to your computer, remove the hard drive and spend half an hour removing information. Something similar happened in Columbine and when these murderers are analyzing his last act is rebellion against the computer, I think as a psychiatrist is relevant. "
continue with the perennial debate as ever, video games or computer use, in this case, can get to make a person crazy? or else, that person was already madly in itself and the games were a way as any other?
only thing clear is that in a troubled world that does not hesitate to attack head-on and charge the game to be almost a reincarnation of Satan, comments like those of Dr. Block is never over and invite us to think in a way healthy and constructive.
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