Soon to Open: A Detox Clinic for Gaming Addicts |
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There is such a thing as game addiction. And it's serious.A detox clinic will be opening in Amsterdam, Netherlands for game addicts. The clinic will be offering in-house treatment for people who just can't stay away from playing video games.
Keith Bakker, director of Smith & Jones Addiction Consultants based in Amsterdam, spear-headed this detox program as he believes that video games can be as addictive as drugs or gambling. This program will focus on treating game addiction through discussions with therapists and encouraging these gamers to get interested in alternative activities.
According to Bakker, gaming addiction has several causes and damaging effects on a person. Sometimes, this addiction might have even been caused by the gamers' parents. They give their sons or daughters video games to keep them away from television or to keep them occupied. Some gamers are also trying to escape personal problems when they play. When playing, the brain produces endorphins that give them a high very similar to those felt by gamblers or drug addicts.
This kind of addiction can also result to another addiction: drug dependence. In several cases handled by Bakker, there were people who used drugs just so they could stay up longer and play longer. These people would only stop playing when their bodies - and not their computers - crash. Those who've spent most of their days in front of their computers also lose their social network and have problems communicating with people face-to-face.
Bakker is hoping that most parents and the gamers themselves see that though gaming may seem like an innocent activity, it can still cause addiction. This detox clinic in Netherlands will start its program this July.
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this is a joke right, LOL
Lol this has to be a joke, a detox clinic is for things that mater like drug rehab, or an aa meeting but not video game addiction, thats what shock therapy is for
This is stupid. Who would pay to get away from games. Video games keep you away from socializing w/ people fACE-TO-FACE? Ha! Whoever opened this clinic is just out of their mind. How would it be done? I'd like to see.
well trust some tw0 bit dikeheads to come up with this and yes i bet its run upstairs from a cafe and next door to the red light district!! this isnt news the last thing we need is to give this crap more publicity..rubbish!!
ROFL
*falls back on his chair and break it*
That gold, "My name is *** and I'm a gamaholic, it started with mario........ but now...... i've worked on to...... MMO'S!!!!!"
classic coming from the depraved drug addled capital of europe!! I had to give up heroin, porn, prostitutes, dope, speed, acid, coke the whole lot because of my expensive gaming habit now all i have left is sore thumbs boo hoo
and i am a game addict LOL...
Okay so now your going to take away my games. Let's see I work 10hr shefts 7 days on 7 days off. I pay my taxes a good person. Let's say you then I would have to turn to killin' who or what came up with this idea for gamers. First off we game to forget about problems, hang with my friends, oh and let's not forget you could getr shot these days for being outside. So some a$$hole feels I play to much. I bet the people(s) that came up with this idea never played a game. Last time I check it's "We The People For The People By The People". Just another way for some rich A-hole to make money or to get the Gov. to give them money. This use to be USA now I'm wondering if it's USSR. I know the story is not in the USA but give it time, Like everthing else. Hell maybe we need a Revolution... And then the Gov. wants to know why the people hate then. That's just my two cents.
no 10 read No 5's comment and breath a sigh of relief please
No. 11 okay **Putting guns back up**
"Anything fun in this world is either illegal or immoral, the rest causes cancer in lab rats."
IM JUST A GAME ADDICT!
im suprised everyone here is so emidiatly against the thought that people can get addicted to games. My Unlce got hooked on Everquest so much that he lost his job because he kept falling asleep and almost ruined his mairage before his family forced him to stop. My Cousin would throw mad fits (at age 17) over not being able to play an online game called "Tibia", so much that his family had to get rid of every computer they owned, and even have the school keep him off the computers because he would download it and play it in the library and just skip all of his classes.
So yes, its rare, its partial insanity, but it DOES exist, just not enough to warrent a detox.
This is just another way someone is trying to make money off video games.
I play games to forget about the world for about an hour.
^^^But not that bad... what losers going there
useing drugs to stay awake longer to play games....
GENIUS!!!
When you smoke weed all day in Amsterdam what else are you going to do!?
lol i WAS a game addict lol don't u feel addicted when u play games like wow or lineage or everquest ??? i know i felt addicted lol so i stopped.. and now i'm a psp portal programmer hurray lol oh and when i played wow and lineage lol my grades fell and ***** and i used coffee to stay awake.. (coffee can be seen as a drug) and my lilbro IS an addict of wow lol and he actually pays for it to ;):P
WHy do people find this stupid.
Adictions can be in any way. Drugs, Sex, Games, Shopping, anything!
SUre it does sound funny to go to a Video Detox game center. hehe. but then again. If the problem is serious, that indeed is no laughing matter.
SO tell me guys who laugh, who is the idiot in the end?
Um why did you guys delete my post. Maybe was it because i was right. This is old news stay on top of things.
The same place where prostitution and smokin a big ol dube is legal? LMAO.
Aimed at funny person No 23
People find this stupid because stupid people need something to blame for the crap way they live there lives!! "Oooh its video games causing violence in children!!! we had video nasties in the 80's and now "ooh i cant stop having sex, i cant stop shopping "i cant stop playing video games"
People and governments don't wish to delve any deaper and nearly always skim the surface of the real issues!With this kinda BULLS**T. BLAME SOCIETY "It's not my fault it's theres"
People rarely ask themselves maybe the problem is with them rather than dealing with deaper issues they blame the easy target
Game addicts contact me at michellecolorad o
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