After admitting it a global disease ... video game addiction is looking for a treatment

Arcadia Kim had spent her career in developing video games, until one day she received a painful blow from these games.The incident occurred several years ago when Kim, who previously worked as a studio operating manager at Electronic Arts, was trying to disassemble her 10 -year -old son at the time, about the game "Minecraft", and then her child threw her anger the "iPad" device.

Diagnosis of the disease

Kim, 48, said that the experience inspired her to start a commercial activity in 2019, which is concerned with advising parents about the formation of healthy relationships between their children and devices..The work became more urgent during the current year, when the World Health Organization officially admitted that video game addiction is a disease for the first time.

While there is a difference between the users of games and parents, and even within the medical community, about whether or not addiction addiction is real, in any case, the World Health Organization classification can represent a blessing for Kim's current work, and other similar commercial activities,Dozens of consultants in the field in the United States alone work on matters that vary from electronic applications, training camps, self -assisting books, and centers to provide treatment.

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According to the World Health Organization, addiction diagnosis is based on a series of symptoms.It includes a lack of control of the motor motivation for playing video games, a tendency to give it priority at the expense of interests or other tasks, and to continue to use them or increase involvement in them despite the presence of negative consequences.