Therapist: Gaming is Like Snorting Cocaine

[maestintaolius]

Yahoos like this that usually complain about gaming rotting today's youth are more than content to sit for 4-6 hours after work watching garbage TV. Of course, their parents likely complained back then about how TV was rotting their youth (while their youth rolled their eyeballs at the idiocy of those statements).

I think Douglas Adams put it best:

[citation][nom]Douglas Adams[/nom]
I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.[/citation]

 

[anamaniac]

I showed my brother the title of the this article, grabbed a xbox game case, and started snorting t.

 

[DjEaZy]

... so gaming is like snorting cocaine... i will answer, but i have... another line here...

 

[kevinface]

Yeah I'm gonna have to disagree with that one...

 

[aeronaut]

The people with addictive tendencies and things in their lives that they want to escape are going to find something to use to take the pain away, and games are a hell of a lot better than cocaine or alcohol. It's another case of people blaming the escape and not the addict. These people need coping mechanisms and healthy outlets.

Further, the vast majority of people play video games a little, and have no ill effects. I'm sure there are a few people who use cocaine a little and are pretty much OK, but it's a totally different spectrum of effects.

 

[Fusion777]

THERAPIST MAKE HULK ANGRY

 

[liquidchild]

*NEWS FLASH*!!!! d-bag old people passing judgement on kids for using "magic boxes" too much, is the equivalent of snorting $500 of pure PCP. I mean shit we get it, you had it tough...with all your 3 mile hikes to school, in the snow, on one foot to keep the other one warm. Get over it, just cuz your parents where terrible people doesn't mean I have to keep my child locked in church barefoot with school books 15 hours a day.

 

[xenol]

What I don't get.

I play a game for about a month or two. Get bored of it, move onto another one. So either this suggests that the theory is wrong, or I'm going to move from drug to drug every few months.

 

[zooted]

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPEjcQvqSk

 

[cj_online]

The Therapist deserves this...

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

 

[tearlach2]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]This guy probably would have complained about fantasy novels if this kind of job existed when they first appeared."The children and adults go into a world of their own, a world shaped by the author in order to stimulate the bodies natural hormones and create a sense of excitement and immersion which is totally addictive; and ultimately destructive." - The kind of thing he would have said.[/citation]
Your post was an example of reason, well played.

 

[tearlach2]

[citation][nom]xenol[/nom]What I don't get.I play a game for about a month or two. Get bored of it, move onto another one. So either this suggests that the theory is wrong, or I'm going to move from drug to drug every few months.[/citation]Two in one post!

 

[proxy711]

When ever i hear about some study that compares video games to drugs i am appalled.

Anyone that has had a loved one deal with a bad drug addiction knows just how painful the ordeal is.

People that play video games don't commonly steal from their family's to go out and get their next "hit" of halo. They don't sell their bodies in exchange for a few hours of their favorite games. No gamer wakes up a month later with no knowledge of what transpired to see their life i shambles.

These researchers need to do some research not make up shit. one episode of Intervention and they would never make this comparison again.

I'll agree sometimes gamers go overboard, but its easy to go overboard on something that you enjoy so much. if we go by what these researchers say then hell, Hanging out with friends is like smoking a joint, going to a movie is like taking speed, going to an amusement park is like being on heroin.....see how ridiculous that sounds?

I mean really when was the last time you sucked dick for some Half life 2?

These studies are so wrong its hard to understand how anyone could take them seriously.

 

[Guest]

If you add one extra space "Therapist Steve Pope" you will notice that this guy should be in jail for sex crimes.

 

[Guest]

[name]proxy711[/name]I mean really when was the last time you sucked dick for some Half life 2?

You got a hell of a point here

 

[Ciuy]

but cocaine is good...

 

[mancream]

[citation][nom]billin30[/nom]I think I have a going to work addiction....I just seem to end up there day after day and stay there for hours...do I have a problem?[/citation]
[citation][nom]ElCdt[/nom]It always cracks me up when i see some pseudo-therapist come out and say things like these. Unlike him, i have real extensive experience in both. I´m a recovering addict myself, after almost 20 years of heroin addiction, with a lot of cocaine in between. I can promise you, comparing gaming to cocaine is utter bollocks, and is only done to add shock value to a statement that lacks any real credibility. Theories like these are concocted by self-interested people with an eye in making a quick buck from desperate parents that should know better. No doubt the authors of said theories have opened a gaming addiction clinic somewhere, and are just seeking out customers by scaring the living shit out of parents when using words like cocaine and gaming in the same sentence. Pay no mind to these buffoons.[/citation]

So do I, used to do yay time to time but unlike others I have self control not self destruct.

 

[mancream]

[citation][nom]Trueno07[/nom]What about the people who actually do cocaine?[/citation]

Whats there to say? its no where like gaming

I guess it would be more comparable to sex. Would addicted WoW gamers give up WoW for sex? nergins wouldn't I'll tell you that, self destruct0rs would sell it in a heart beat for coke.

 

[Learn_w_Graffix]

Hmmm... video games, TV, ebay, Facebook "addictions"? As opposed to what? Homework, yardwork, housework? Wouldn't it just be easier (and more accurate than comparing things to cocaine) to say that having fun--now don't let this shock you--having fun is preferred to work?

 

[mowston]

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