Video Game Addiction Now a Recognized Illness

By Toby Saunders

From today, video game addiction is officially a recognized illness. The World Health Organization has included “gaming disorder” in the latest draft of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD). So now when you say that you’re addicted to video games, it is official.

The ICD argue that people addicted to video games cannot control their behavior when around gaming, giving the pastime precedence over…

Toby Saunders
Toby Saunders

I studied film at university to write about games... Spends far too long on Rocket League.

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