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12/30/2017 7:40:34 AM
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I can see why it can be considered a mental disorder or mental illness. This is coming from a person who will spend an entire day binge gaming if I don't have access to video games for extended periods of time. Like Zeldasavior said, it releases dopamine into the brain, and excess dopamine can be addicting over a period of time. If a brain is used to getting a certain level of dopamine, any quantity lower than that won't produce the same good effects, since dopamine (along with serotonin, but this is for another time) is the "feel good" neurotransmitter, so a lot of it will make someone feel pretty damn good (stating the obvious). The body will get used to a high level of it, and that could be considered the new "normal" level. [url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101504/table/T2/]A mental disorder (according to the DSM V) is covered here.[/url] Based off of what the DSM-V considers a mental/psychological disorder, I can easily see why gaming disorder can be considered a mental disorder. It does cover a LOT of the prereqs. But I'm also glad that it also mentions that not all gamers will have gaming disorder.
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