Dr. Douglas Gentile With Laura Ingraham on Video Game Addiction

Laura Ingraham hosted Dr. Douglas Gentile on his study estimating that eight percent of American youth are addicted to video games.

Gentile said that he used similar measures as other addictions to gauge if gamers are addicted.  This included lying about the habit, irritable when not gaming - and neglecting personal health to the point of wearing diapers so they don't have to leave their games to go to the bathroom.  He said that studies show that game content does affect behavior (i.e. Grand Theft Auto).  He said that social skills are stunted as well as health. 

Comments

[Kevin Dixon]

Great article. I'm sure a lot of gamers would say that they are not addicted when they in fact are. They may say "if I am an addict, can' I just quit on my own?"
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[safari]

Let's say there are video game addicts, what's wrong with that? They even have foundations for those who needs treatments and such but has anyone bothered to check out real and alarming addictions like drugs? Is being addicted to video games worst than being addicted to drugs? I'd rather be addicted to games than to drugs and most parents would agree to that. I've also read an article http://www.seolinksshop.com/articles/article-18.html which pointed a good effect of games in real world specially in times of crisis.