(Smith and Jones) is an addiction clinic in Amsterdam....which have started treating game addicts....
Video games have become a funfair for the mind. Their worlds of shifting reality have an effect similar to drugs or alcohol, where you can forget about the humdrum and everyday.
To some extent I agree to .If you the resourse and dumb enough then you will end up playing games only for your life and still feel good about it......Unless you really get into it like do game designing....and stuff....
But i do think this addiction clinic for gamers will see lot of flow....
This is what one of the game addicts used to do
" If I had to go to the lavatory I'd pee in a bottle. I ate in my room the whole day, I had no social connection with people or with parents - :huh:
Tim Lathouwers "
And another addict was sent on a south africa trip for a week...but ended up playing in a cyber cafe in that SA terminal...did not leave the terminal....
Information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5202212.stm
Video games have become a funfair for the mind. Their worlds of shifting reality have an effect similar to drugs or alcohol, where you can forget about the humdrum and everyday.
To some extent I agree to .If you the resourse and dumb enough then you will end up playing games only for your life and still feel good about it......Unless you really get into it like do game designing....and stuff....
But i do think this addiction clinic for gamers will see lot of flow....
This is what one of the game addicts used to do
" If I had to go to the lavatory I'd pee in a bottle. I ate in my room the whole day, I had no social connection with people or with parents - :huh:
Tim Lathouwers "
And another addict was sent on a south africa trip for a week...but ended up playing in a cyber cafe in that SA terminal...did not leave the terminal....
Information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5202212.stm
