Gaming as a Mental Illness
To some people gaming is seen as sitting alongside the television in order to experience the content made by the developers, and to control the animated graphics shown on screen. Well, to some other people it seems that gaming carries a certain risk especially when he plays long hours sessions. These views where heard way back when home consoles, and computers began to go mainstream in the 1970’s and 1980’s but no attention was paid until this year. © Gamer Zone The World Health Organization started out the year with a bang when they labelled “ gaming disorder ” as a mental health condition for the first time. They included this disorder in the same category of gambling in the recent updated draft version of International Classification of Disease, because it showed persistent factors that regulate the individual’ behavior when they started to engage in online or offline gaming. The disorder is characterized by an arrangement of continual gaming behaviors that takes control
