Friday, August 11, 2006

40% of WoW players Addicted?

If you're suffering from dry eyes, headaches, back aches, erratic sleep patterns, it may be more than just your average hangover: according to Dr. Maressa Orzack, you could be suffering from video and computer game addiction. A clinical psychologist, Orzack is founder and coordinator of Computer Addiction Services at McLean Hospital in Newton, Mass., and is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Computer Addiction Services is one of the few outpatient clinics in the U.S. that provides specific treatment for game addiction.
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I wouldnt be greatly suprised to find out that WoW is classfied as an addictive substance. That game steals peoples souls. More often then not people end up doing things, like forums and such, less and less often.

1 Comments:

At 7:20 AM, Blogger Roger Stack said...

Steals people's souls heh? :-)

I've just read about how video games are good for the soul...
http://hent.blogspot.com/2006/08/learning-from-gaming.html

Thanks for the link - I've added it to our gaming site for 2007:

http://hcgaming.pbwiki.com/

 

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