I think we all have"Gaming Disorder" a possible mental health issue

I'm not really obsessed or spending all my money on games, not even for collection purposes...I think i'm good.

"Normal's not normal"

Doctor Gregory House

Back then before internet we had people running to a place to get their weekly fixes of brain dope. It was super popular and publicly funded as well. You had to pay just a little fee per year and had full access to the whole arsenal.
Today it's not so popular anymore, but I swear I've read countless books from the local libraries. People would carry them home in bags to consume! Can you believe it?! Parents would forbid their kids to read them, but we did anyway. Under the blanket with a flashlight!!!

And this is why you should never pay attention to any "psychology" related "articles" (bullshit) published by the media because all they do is get unqualified people to self diagnosis their "problems.

I only see gaming as an issue when it dominates your life. It's supposed to be something fun to do an escape real life, not so something to do 24/7 like an addiction. There are videos where parents take games away and the kid will react in a very negative way because they're that addicted to gaming. Furthermore there are full grown adults who don't take care of themselves because of gaming. So much physical inactivity results in gaining weight, clogging up your arteries, unsanitary homes, etc etc. I believe I've seen on the news at one time that a 22 year old died from a heart attack and they put the cause being the weight he had on him and how plugged up his arteries was. Much of it cause of physical inactivity and his parents admitting he played for various 8 hour + sessions. That's absolutely ridiculous to me to be playing that long and not taking a break besides food and bathroom. Try to at least take a 30 minute break every hour to stretch and move around if you're going to play like that. Even then I'd put down an hour just waking/running etc etc.

This is also why I don't fancy streamers as many of them live doing this. Good money or not, I wouldn't like sitting in a chair for 6+ hours every day and only getting up when it comes to food or drink. That's a lot of stress on the body.

I don't believe gaming period means it's bad, I think what makes it unhealthy is how attached one gets to it to where it effects their physical and mental health. What happens of all of a sudden if the world was without electricity for say a year? I'd be curious how many people would absolutely lose their shit not being able to use the internet or play anything digitally. Even gaming can create an addiction and can kill you if you're not aware of your own well being.

I did it the right way. First I screwed up my life and only then did I start spending all my time playing games.
Okay, the end result is the same, but atleast I feel I gave that whole life thing a chance before giving up.

As has already been pointed out, the WHO did not classify gaming as a mental disorder. What the WHO did was formally classify a gaming addiction as a disorder, which is perfectly reasonable.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520128/

'We argue that rather than stigmatizing gaming per se, the role of scientists and practitioners is to establish a clear-cut distinction between someone who may use games excessively but non-problematically and someone who is experiencing significant impairment in their daily lives as a consequence of their excessive gaming. This responsibility needs to be shared by popular media who are often quick to build a moral panic around gaming behaviors, often based on cherry-picking specific case studies and pieces of research which support their headlines.'

There is nothing more damaging to a developing mind than those japanese cartoons. They turn people into animels.