Britain gets first games rehab clinic
Are video games addictive enough to warrant their own rehab clinic? Apparently so. Britain has just got its first one.
According to a Telegraph report a rehabilitation unit in Weston-super-mare currently treats up to 400 addicts a year and have now started treating video game obsessives.
“Suffers [sic] spend days at a time glued to their computer screens - going without food, sleep, or any social interaction”, The Telegraph reports.
Apparently the addiction is triggered by online games. One user, a 23-year old man recently underwent therapy to wean him off the games involving “therapeutic tasks.”
”We developed a treatment for him which followed the 12-step (abstinence) approach, but you can’t tell someone never to use the internet again,” Brian Dudley, the centre’s chief executive, said told The Telegraph.
”He had eating issues, he wasn’t eating properly. He did very well. He has the mechanisms now to cope with it.”
Others at the centre believe that it’s a serious condition, while those outside disagree that online games can lead to addiction.
Michael Rawlinson, director general of The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association said: ”Playing video games is becoming increasingly mainstream in the UK and we firmly believe in the positive impact playing games can have.”
The U.S has its own clinic too.
Via [Telegraph]
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