This week the World Health Organisation voted to recognise video gaming as an official addiction with the new classifications coming into effect in 2022. This, he claimed, was because many spend their teenage years glued to computer screens playing video games – essentially living in a fantasy world far from reality. “We have got patients who spend all day playing video games and not studying,” he said. “We play video games not because we are addicted to them or because we have a huge passion for them,” he said. For an introvert like me who spends most of the time at home, without video games, I could become autistic.

Source: Viet Nam News May 30, 2019 06:22 UTC