Elementary aged children show signs of addiction to physical activities such as sports. Symptoms include...



Lying to family and friends about how often they engage in sports



Using sports and other physical activities to escape from problems or bad feelings



Becoming restless or irritable when not engaged in sports of physical activities



Skipping homework in order to play sports or practice their sport of choice



Doing poorly on a school assignment or test because they spent too much time playing or practicing their sport.



SHUT UP. You have no point, you're making up whatever suits your view about something you personally dislike.

*lied to my mom when i was younger(pretend ed i was studying)

*I wouldnt say I use them to escape but they definately help relax

*Never tried to stop

*Oh yeah...many a time

*I wouldnt say I did poorly...maybe didnt I achieve full potential..:)



Oh well...Guess I'm an addict...or a pathological game user...better join gamers anonomous.

What the hell is wrong with them, it's like they are labelling Video Games alongside the other (supposed) bad things in life like drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. 20, no less than 10 years ago gaming was a sought after past time that people enjoyed together, now in 2009 they try and label it damaging to your health, and people can become "addicted". What real difference is there between them now?

I always skipped homework but then I could tell you some other non-gamers would too. I suppose they got eye drops to hide evidence of their well hidden addiiction to games. So next time you see somebody in class say they lost their homework, harass them and tell everyone about their obvious game addiction.

im 15 and live in england :) i do all of those things apart from not do homework.. oh yea he must be making it up because my lowest GCSE grade so far is an A so you trying to tell me that im a genius, all i have to do is quit gaming? im sorry but dout that will happen any time soon.. i love CoD 5 atm and cant wait for assassins creed 2, Uncharted 2, Il-2 sturmovik Birds Of Prey and many more :)

Replace Zelda with Halo in that story and you'll know one of them will die.

thats right, a video game addict

lets just hope this doesn't go on the news, cuz then mi rents will see, and bye bye video games =[



psp n 360 FTW

whatever happened to Petz: Monkey Family????

as we grow up, with a peak time during college (yes, i'm one of them addicts) and drops-off when starting work (sort-of a sigmoid curve, or S-curve).



although i do know a few of my mates that still gets addicted to gaming even when working and still have time for social meetings and stuffs, so it's not all bad for gaming addicts.

I did all those things..but not with video games, it was to go outside and run around, now i play my ps3 muhahaha

Is thrown around way too loosely among the ill informed or ignorant. Doing something in excess does not make someone an addict. Needing to and sometimes having withdrawal symptoms if you don't, does. If someone doesn't play a game and that then makes them physically ill or causes them extreme discomfort then they are an addict. If someone just does something often it makes them an enthusiast, if anything. But nowadays it doesn't matter, right now video games are the big controversy and we wont see an end to these "studies" until the next big thing comes around. Remember when the news was all over scooters when the Razor got really popular? I bet once we get...hoverboards...or something new for kids to love, video games will take a back seat if only for a while.