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Gaming disorder is mental health condition - - - Recognize anyone?

Posted By: mamabear
Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2018, at 1:23 a.m.

In Response To: Gaming disorder is mental health condition - - - Recognize anyone? (Bill Finneran)

The Italian term la malattia del gioco, literally "the disease of the game", has been around for a very long time, and means the same thing. It applies to video games and not just compulsive gambling. These folks seem to have taken the next step by medicalizing it.

Here is an article I wrote for the Ohio club's newsletter back in 1998. A few of the line items would need updating now--who remembers the World Cup tapes? And spoiler alert: the final item in the countdown actually mentions headphones! Yep, they existed back then, but the difference was that nobody gave a flyin' ferdoodle if their opponents wore them or not. But it still can help you decide if you need to see a shrink about your backgammon addiction.

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The Top 10 Ways to Tell If You

Are A Backgammon Junkie

© 1998 by Mary Hickey

The other people in your life (assuming there still are any who don't also play) may be telling you that you're a "backgammon junkie", but how can you know whether or not they're right? Here are the top 10 signs to look for. If even one of them applies to you, they probably have a point.

# 10. Your collection of backgammon reference materials and software is worth more than everything else you own combined.

# 9. You have watched the World Cup tapes so often that you always know what they're going to roll, how they're going to play it, and what KG is going to say about it.

# 8. Your Significant Other moved out, and it took you a week to notice, since s/he didn't take any of your backgammon books or notes.

# 7. You have spent more time studying backgammon than you did getting your college degree.

# 6. The local recovery group is devising a 12-step program specifically for backgammon players--and they are naming it after you.

# 5. You have ever driven straight from a chouette to work at 8 a.m. the next morning.

# 4. You have ever gone to a weekend tournament without booking a room, figuring you weren't going to sleep anyway...and you didn't.

# 3. Your friends look at you with pity and horror, and swear they'd rather pick up cigarette butts from city sidewalks for a living than take up backgammon.

# 2. You have ever fallen asleep on your keyboard while playing on the Net.

But the number-one dead giveaway that you need to be committed to a lock-up, dry-out type place for a while is...

# 1. You can recite the entire Match Equity Table from memory. It's even worse if the reason you can is that you have it on tape, and you play it on your headphones 24 hours a day, including while you sleep!

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