Nick Yee wrote an entry earlier in the week over at Terra Nova entitled, The Trouble with “Addiction” that nails a few points on the head about people’s tendencies to simplify the debate about intense online or gaming usage.
It all brings me back to …
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So, Dr. Grohol, this was written in 2006. By 2006 I had already lost my marriage after 4 years of 15 hour a day gaming by my spouse, who had tried repeatedly to stop, but inevitable went back to the thing that fed the hole in his soul that he could not find in the real world. Since that time I meed numererous people scared to death by what they are seeing thier loved ones doing, isolated severely by what most regard as “only a video game”. Well, for most of us a beer is “only a beer” as well. I work as a counselor in drug and alcohol addiction rehab, and the effects I see on a personal and family level are comperable, though missed on a wider societal level (they aren’t driving around drunk and getting arrested). MOre people have computers now, and the high speed internet needed more available. Also, the games themselves are graphically better…. what is the research saying now in 2008?