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“It is challenging if not impossible, to document and communicate the rationale and justification for [the gaming disorder] decision.”
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It is an open secret that certain countries lobbied for the WHO to include gaming disorder in the ICD-11. It was a political decision, not an evidence-based decision. Of course they're going to find it "challenging, if not impossible" to document their rationale.
Though it's definitely funny that they're willing to cover their tracks by deleting statements about it being evidence-based from their website.
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Have a chat with . IIRC, he mentioned having had correspondence with WHO at CHI Play a few years back. Supposedly they said the quiet part out loud while talking to him. Hopefully there's paper trail.
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I struggle a lot with stopping reading a good book at night. Cost me a lot of sleep at times! Can we make that a disorder?
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Tbf, it sounds like something people experience when they have ADHD... So it's kinda already a disorder LMAO
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Faulty logic supports their agenda. Gambling addiction is linked to spikes in the D4 dopamine receptor. Games like Candy Crush create similar responses. Chocolate cake increases, dopamine levels, but it's not linked to a billion dollar industry. They're following the money.
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