The world health organization has included gambling in the official list of diseases. She entered the 11th edition of the International classification of diseases, presented today.
In ICD – 11 is about 55 thousand diseases, disorders and injuries. Gaming disorder has been included in the section of mental diseases in addition to other types of addictions.
According to the description, gambling addiction is characterized weakened control over the process of the game, including frequency, duration, start and end time of the game. We are talking about computer, video and online games. The player grows the priority of tasks in the game before the everyday interests and problems in real life. The person continues to play, in particular on the rise, despite the emergence of negative consequences.
A pattern of behaviour serious enough to seriously affect personal, family, social, educational, work and other important areas of life. From the point of view of experts who, game addiction can be diagnosed if the pattern of behavior observed at least in the course of the year.