WHO to recognize gaming disorder as mental health condition
Before the sceptics get in:<p>1. The purpose of DSM&#x2F;ICD is often to justify financing treatment:<p>&gt; Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University ... described the ICD as &quot;the book of real diseases that you can get insurance payments for.&quot;<p>2. Treatment has to be mindful of the specific form of addiction:<p>&gt; &quot;These are co-morbid conditions,&quot; he said. &quot;If you just treat the depression and not gaming, the gaming is likely to come back.&quot; This suggests it&#x27;s a unique condition, he said.<p>3. No we are not &quot;medicializing everything&quot;:<p>&gt; But Ferguson argued that, if it is a disorder, it seems to be very rare.<p>NB.<p>Before criticizing modern psychiatry keep in mind:<p>1. mental health patients are extreme in their dysfunction, never common.<p>2. the operation of the brain (, nervous system, etc.) in its interaction with its environment is as liable to breaking as any other part of the body<p>3. modern clinical psychiatry is an evidenced-based, research-driven field which treats and forms diagnoses on the basis of decades of research into any particular condition. It isnt the 1950s.