Therapist: Gaming is Like Snorting Cocaine

[mancream]

Oh...topic Therapist I see. I would of waited 2 hrs to create this thread if I was the Therapist 😉 Burn. Hope you got that.


...cause you know I'm busy 😉

 

[MAC_HATER]

so - this means when im driving home with a copy of Red dead Redemption on the passengers seat and a cop pulls me up im going to get tased and locked up for all of the years?

maybe i should start a video game cartel and start arms contracts for my gang of thugs to fight off other gangs trying to take off with my "merchandise"? stupid therapist is stupid 😉

 

[Guest]

OMG, grandma's daughter bought 270 pairs of shoes, they clearly are addictive! let's ban shoes!

 

[Guest]

Hehe... my answer is (as always):

I'm not SUFFERING in addiction to computer. I'm ADORING every moment 😀 lol

 

[Guest]

"Video games are opiates for the masses? Where is Lenin when you need him?"

YOU KILLED IT!!!! xD xD xD this comment made my day! 😀

 

[Guest]

Then football could be considered as an addiction the same way.

A mass of people play/watch it. Sometimes makes people violent and aggressive the same way (your team loses, then you are angry and go out on the street and start messing around)...etc. Many people are buying the tickets, so they can watch football, wherever their team is playing. Why not call this addiction too?

as for violent kids: only the parents are to be blamed for this. I never played any other shooters and such, until I got 9. The first shooter was the classic UT
The only violent game I played as a kid was Diablo...but that was sometimes too scary for me, so I left it be for the time 😀

Dude, you are totally confused: ENTERTAINMENT is NOT the same as addiction!!!

 

[mancream]

crack crack crack crack

 

[g-thor]

"I am working with one family where a 74-year-old grandmother is addicted to online poker," he added. "Her daughter is addicted to eBay and has bought 270 pairs of shoes, and her grand-daughter is addicted to Facebook.

As a therapist, he knows that an addictive personality is an addictive personality. What the addicition is is only what the addictive personality has locked on to. Next, a parent with an addictive personality can pass those traits on to their children, as the children grow up influenced by the parent - example, the child of an alcoholic is far more likely to become an alcoholic.

I have a hard time seeing Mr. Pope`s report as anything more than grandstanding and trying to get a name for himself. It reminds me of a report that claimed there were areas in the USA that were grocery store deserts, where people actually had to drive (I think it was) 30 miles to get groceries. My first response to that was, what a city boy. Go live on a ranch in Texas for a while - you`ll see it`s not serious enough to write a `report`on. Nor is this report worth the time it took to write, so NO, I won`t be reading the full report.

 

[mancream]

yawn

 

[Gin Fushicho]

I could easily turn fantasy into reality. Walk up to his home, shoot him and then blame it on GTA4, just like everyone else! =D

Or , I could be like a normal person and realize I like playing video games, and the closest thing is Paintball.