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- Inside a spacious home in the suburbs of Seattle, a group of young men are going through a technology detox.
They’re recovering gaming addicts, sent here from across the country for treatment at reSTART, an inpatient rehab for people whose lives have been destroyed by video games.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization added “gaming disorder” to its International Classification of Diseases. That’s a long-awaited nod from the medical community that Hilarie Cash, founder and chief clinical officer of reSTART, has been hoping for since she opened reSTART nine years ago.
“People tend to think it can't be real, but they are misled,” Cash told VICE News. “Because if you're a gaming addict and you're actively gaming your brain is going to light up the same way someone who's high on cocaine, the same way their brain lights up.”
But despite its new recognition by the WHO, there’s no scientific consensus as to whether gaming addiction is a real disorder, and some academics are pushing back on the WHO’s classification, saying there needs to be further research.
Treatment at reSTART isn’t cheap. The first phase of the program, which includes no contact with the outside world and daily therapy sessions, usually lasts two months and costs $30,000. After that, recovering gaming addicts live in halfway houses - apartments leased by reSTART - with their fellow patients. The second phase costs $7,000 a month. In just about every case, the rehab is paid for by the patient's parents. Patients in the program are typically in their early twenties, but some are as old as 30.
“I mean I may be almost 30 years old but I’ve never actually functioned as a true adult,” Kevin, a patient at reSTART, told VICE News. “Paying my own bills, go to things on time, go make my own food. Things like that. Those are all things that I've never fully accomplished.”
At reSTART, patients learn how to use technology responsibly - and how to function without it. Cash says there’s currently a waiting list to get into the program.
VICE News met with some gaming addicts and the clinicians who treat them as they try to participate in an open world, free of gaming.
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$30,000 is highway robbery. I hope no one who isn't incredibly wealthy bought into this.
Everfrost1000 my friends brother went here last week. Wow.
$30K is high but a cheap price to pay to potentially overcom a life crippling addiction.
It functions like most rehab centers. It costs a lot of money and it's an overall scam with people who often have no qualifications to handle problems of addiction. It's the same scheme with drug addicts and alcoholics. The game addiction is real though since most online games revolve around basic skinner's box principles.
Everfrost1000 just like drug rehabs- total rip off
30k is the about the average for any rehab facility you will visit actually. This would be a pretty nice rehab for 30k for 8 weeks actually as far as cost for rehab goes and what you get for it
$30000 to clean this woman’s house for 8 weeks 😂😂
That lady can play politics..
LMAO
Talk about game.
Respect the hustle
@John Phillips So people who sit in front of the TV for hours dont have a problem? If anyfhing that is worse as it is just passive where as video games are active, and requires skill, puzzle solving, or strategy.
30k just to not play video games? You can go backpacking for 8 weeks for MUCH less than 30k and it's healthier to boot
Are you talking about wilderness camp?
No, I'm talking about getting backpacking gear and heading out onto a trail. It doesn't have to be a camp
Good point.... except backpacking has to be a voluntary thing. These kids are being sent to rehab by their parents. They are there involuntarily. If it was a voluntary thing, many would leave and go back to gaming, just as they would as soon as they realized the backpacking trip isn't as enjoyable as video games.
I was unfortunately in the adolescent reSTART program and it was a complete joke. After several months I started acting up by refusing to do activities and was accused by Hillary Cash of, "Being the rotten apple spoiling the rest of the group".
I got sent to WinGate wilderness because I was fed up with the way they ran their program and sort of tried to jump out of a car during a parent visit. And wilderness was one of the best things that has ever happened to me, those 2 months in the Grand Staircase absolutely changed my life. So yes, wilderness did so much more for me than any residential ever could
for 30 grand one could go on a lot of camping/ backpacking and a lot of out door trips
This rehabs are nothing but money making machine . And manipulate ppl to rob them slowly.
The founders last name makes it kinda ironic
Like mostly everything these days...
@john mac I also have been to rehab just bcz my parents thought I was weed addict and they made my parents believe that I am in really bad conditions and I need treatment and they lock me up for 4 months just to make money.
john mac unless they’re a minor, true you gotta want it
Md. Rifat take out the first word and your right
I need youtube rehab more than ever
I'm guilty also I've skipped out on job interviews because I wanted to keep watching TH-cam videos
Facts
even better, we all need Internet rehab
I can cure you for $30,000
@@yohanroma wah, thank u! Finally a solution. Where do I sign up?
Paying $30,000 to stop playing videogames?
madness
And what about the poor family who can't afford activities like going on restaurant? If people have no money, they are more encline to play FREE-to-play like dota all day cause they don't have money to spend outside.... And even if they are addict parents cannot afford 30'000 Dollars for this Rehab...
Parents will pay anything to have their kids stop being addicted to games.
if you're poor, just sell the video games
weezerwookie
we're not in the 90s anymore. Most games today are owned digitally and the most addictive ones are free anyway
Video gaming can be an addiction, but that rehab is bullshit. It's basically a timeout and some chores. Just rasing rich people's kids for them.
6weedy if you get addicted to games you just have addictive personality. Games are like every other thing.
I've got a cult that costs a third of the entry price... Come to Munden's Cult and I'll take your technology and make you clean my house for only 10k.
Lol
man this is a better deal then this video gave me where do i sign up
Gaming can be addicting but a $30,000 rehab program isn’t the way to fix it.
Well said!
Probably because they can only reel in a handful of people... granny’s tryna retire ASAP.
It can be addicting but its not a disease
@@Nio600 It's a disease because it's addicting. Same as drugs. Addiction is just a category of mental illness.
Why do people get so butthurt about people spending money... the poor people coping together online is so disgusting. Imagine being housed and fed for months at a time and expecting it to be free... get a grip
This woman is a genius. Labeling it rehab when it’s actually charging to have these gaming addicts clean and do chores for her. Brilliant.
sky p i know shame on her for doing that and ripping people of for an addiction that is not even real they shold try drugs and drink then they will not what happyness is 🤩🤩🤩
😫😂😀😅😂
Good looks prema
This "rehab" is such a cash grab. LOL
have a free version of rehab?
Most of them are cost a fortune and even make you clean the place
weezerwookie this rehab shouldn’t exist to begin with...
And a joke plus its structured levels are called "restart" and "open world" sounds like they are just trying to make it feel like a game.
no rehabs should exist, but there's a demand for them, and for profit companies supply it.
Gaming addiction is a real thing, I'm saying that as someone used to play Dota for 20 hours a day 140 hours a week. But I think gaming addiction is a special kind of addiction that it's rarely a root cause of a problem. Gaming addiction, unlike other addictions, is really easy to give up, and it's usually just a sympton of a much deeper psychological problem, kinda like alchohol addiction. To me, the root cause of my problem is my parents fighting and divorce.
nah man. trust me. it was somthing else.
@@IslamClipsCentral how you gonna tell someone who got over their addiction that was definitely due to psychological triggers that that wasn't it? A lot of addiction is as psychological as it is physiological. Addicts can't purge their system and hope to feel better. They need connection and empathy.
WRONG! Gaming addiction is hard to give up. Well, good for you, i think you have a healthy environment but for someone who has unhealthy, toxic environment, playing games is (For them) the only way for escaping reality and responsibilities.
Carl, at least you can be real and say that video gaming is used as a emotional crutch. It's addictive but not addicting.
It's sort of an insult being a formal heroin addict to call video gaming an addiction.
Stop the blaming nature
Not being able to balance video games and reality is a lack of discipline... Not a disease. Pls quit making everyone think they're sick and a victim. 30k? Video games have never cost me that much so it seems this is a scam to say give me your money... Not those guys.
well said. i too failed 2 years of college until i was able to discipline my self. rehab for this kind of thing is just money grabbing.
Perfectly put.
The problem is that most who have gaming addictions also have other issues with addiction or other mental/physical issues. It's not easy to tell someone who has little in their life or no desire for anything to stop doing the often one thing they enjoy. Paying 30k for help is crazy expensive though.
6:25 the therapist charging $30,000 to restrict access to video games is saying that game companies are 'pushing [their ideology] on the population' though she doesn't understand the irony that she's doing the same thing.
Really?
You are blatantly lying... she's not charging $30,000 to stop people from playing video games... It's to house them, feed them, teach them etc... Do you expect it to be free? You poor people are so pathetic.
I collect shoes I need a shoe rehab cause my brain light up when I see a shoe like a crack addict
hahaahaha
And there are some broke mf who dont Eat and buy shoes instead that's an addiction, addiction is a mind game and sometimes physical
I can cure you for $100,000
😂😂😂
30 freaking grand??????????????????? id buy my son a gaming setup with that.
Akatsuki lol
3:27 This man is over heat vaping, and you are concerned about videogames?
There are video games that affect your brain the same as cocaine!! Oh shii give me the title of these coca games!
PantsB4Squares ya when I heard that I was like” well shit I feel more inclined to try coke “
True_ Matt they're fucking up in so many ways by doing this haha
Gale i tried to do a bunch of coke before my birth but my mother was straight edge 😞
Fortnite
Cocaine is far better than videogames
These guys don’t need to be locked up. They need a purpose. It will give them the will to develop discipline.
This is a money maker. Blame the parents. As long as their child is not out getting in trouble and are in their bedroom all is good. Out of sight.Out of mind? Starting in the late 60's/70's the T.V became the "baby sitter" which just progressed to video consoles/computers. Wow they have a chore board. LMAO!!! Surely they know how to do daily choirs? Obviously not!! Which leads us back to poor parenting. Come to my house for $15,000.00 i will give you a bunk bed and FEED them as well. Lol
I feel bad for the gullible parents who are helicopter parents don't fall for this scam
Filthy casuals.
I play as much as I can if society rejects me what ever that’s their issue not me
It’s almost 10am and I spent the entire night playing videogames :(
I don't think game developers need to change anything but there should be more exposure to this issue so that people can recognize and identify those who are legitimately addicted. It is apparent that most people look at it as a joke when you look at the comments section. It is isn't so funny when you have people in your life who are addicted and become absolutely angry and depressed whenever they are asked to leave their device even for just a moment
I agree with you there but at the same time it all boils down to self control
I wonder why ninja didn't go gaming rehab ? He plays almost everyday
jin lum because he makes a shit ton of money stupid
He only makes around 20 million a year.
@@EternallyGod 'only'
Look at ninjas life. Dude has a wife and kids. Gaming is his job but he still has a life.
These people lack that. All they have is video games.
Edit - no kids
@@jeffdaman6969 he doesnt have kids
As a gamer, if anything, ANYTHING, gets in the way of you functioning as a normal human being, it is an addiction.
Same people need to know the difference between liking video games and being a Korean e-sports gamer.
@@brightcolorsarecool279 not only Korean Gamer boi !!!
It's worldwide !
@@brightcolorsarecool279 people often thinks gamer as an e sport gamer
Wait wait wait he compared gaming to alcohol?
😭 yep
Any addiction can be as bad as any other addiction when it comes to the symptoms and fallout. Some just more immediately kill you.
I went to a rehab like this, much more uptight because it was actual drugs and not video games. But basically they’re just schemes. You do absolutely nothing but work for whomever owns the facility and pay tons of money every month.
Slam D so true. I hot sober on my own and honestly I am 10x stronger than those who went to work for some hustler, multiple times. not to mention afterwards there is transitional where you can get a real job and still pay all your money to some hustler.
Adolescent Daydreams yep I basically worked my ass off for three years for this woman against my will. And guess what? I do more drugs now than I ever did. Not saying it’s their fault, but it didn’t quite work for me. The people I know and still keep in contact with that went there are either drug addicts, suicidal or dead.
Slam D the struggle man. I'm blessed to have a group of best friends who never did real drugs as a support system. and it was my choice. when someone goes to rehab, its usually not by choice or the only option..then what happens if it doesn't work ? the addict probably feels helpless since the suggested solution didn't work. I think I big role in this substance dependency crisis is the younger generations lack of individual spirituality, which is a goldmine of willpower
I was an addict before I realized how fun actual adventures are. I played first person shooters like Battlefield 2142 and MMOs like Vanguard, Lotro and Aion. I can't believe how you can slowly get absorbed in the style of thinking it helps create until you feel like anything else is pale in comparison to it. What helped me get off more and more was discovering wild edibles, Bushcraft, wild medicine like Yarrow, and we moved as well and the woods was closer. I now enjoy archery quite a bit. My son is really into games and I just hope he doesn't fall into the trap I found myself in. He is showing signs of it. Just pulling yourself away from the games for awhile helps alleviate some of the grasp that addiction can have. So you can play a bit less without the 'need' to play.
@dantelo88 True, but also everyone has the choice in the end, no matter how limited I make his computer time, to game or not to game. These kids can only get help with their addiction by choosing to allow the help. Otherwise, you just go back to what you were doing. I have a schedule for my son. I just hope he listens to what I try to teach him for his future.
That's the problem man you got to learn to discipline if you got him in the right direction he will make the right decisions not though they're going to make decisions ultimately in the end that's why you're the parent and you guide him in the right direction.... good Lord what's wrong with people today..
jthrasher47 it’s like everyone these days expects their kids to raise themselves right? Lol like just do your job as a parent lmao
@@Temptest09 right? Then they wonder why we have mental health epidemic... kids are so used to doing whatever they want and getting rewarded for it then when they get in the real world they go crazy...
Lazy parenting
Detox from video games? god damn people will find a way to make money off of anything
Why don’t they have these for social media addicts.
Because the world economy would crash.
citylims same with video games they easily make more money than hollywood
Social media addiction is probably worse.
But they are athletes, right? Esport, there's no irony in that name.
Vice I love you buuuuuuuut this video was pretty dumb and that’s me being nice. These people needed discipline not to pay 30,000 dollars to get rid of their addiction. What would have been better was if you exposed how much of a scam the lady is running and possibly how gaming addiction cases have been very small and in the minority.
It’s not Vice’s job to insert their opinion. They presented the information so viewers can make their own opinion of the subject matter. They did what good journalists do: present the facts with little bias.
they're just reporting on it, it's not like they created the rehab facility.
1 1 talking about being addicted to playing video games while he smokes on an ecig. Lol Nerds!!!!!
Did anyone notice none of them are medical doctors?
@@loganbarnes5775 ive been in several rehabs. When I was in "intoxication" just to get shit out of my system, they were all medics. After that they send me to a rehab, and there were no medics there either. Not even the people giving out the meds. But psycatrist etc, yeah. But its not as comon as u would think, depends on the rehab. Anyhow, this granny did not seem so competent!
“Slay more with a claymore” 😂😂😂
Trying LARPing!
No Electronics, get some nature, get exercise, socialize, and you're still gaming! Also it doesn't cost $30k
That be a cool idea
That 30.000 dollar gaming rehab is more like a scam to earn a lot of money in a short period of time. They should just put that money in their pockets and get some dicipline to game less.
Look gaming can be addictive and any addiction is obviously bad, but this a total racket. Taking away peoples phones and computers and making them do chores for a couple of months and charging 30 grand. Not to mention their outpatient program costs 7 gra d a month. The lady is an awful person, preying on desperate middle class parents who are probably taking money out of their 401k and life savings to pay for this.
I gave up gaming when I realized it was not changing my actual life. Honestly, it just takes some seeing yourself in 3rd person, and realizing that you are basically just sitting on the couch for 8 hours...nothing has changed in the real world from my gaming. I could be out meditating in the park. Fishing, training, playing with my dog, reading, watching a documentary. I Made the decision to put away childish things and become a man. - Corinthians.
when you thought you have seen everything..
I haven't heard any of these guys saying how much they have spent on add-ons, outfits, weapons, weapons, armors, emotes, etc. If they are spending a lot of money then yes, it's a addiction like gambling. All I'm hearing is how many hours they have spent. You can game for a few hours, and walk away it's called discipline. If they can't fix their own food, wash their clothes, do chores, then that falls on them and their parents, not gaming.
Video game addicts? More like, bad parenting.
What if gaming was there get away from toxic parent abuse?? just cause you see that comment a lot doesn't make you special. you are a trol.
In Malaysia, there was a kid who commited suicide. He jumped off a building. What did the parents do? They blamed PUBG..... They said the kid played too much PUBG until he "tried to mimic the characters" when in reality he was (probably) depressed asf. The fact that they wont even consider that there might be other possibilties is proof that they are bad parents.
What's next? Sporting Disorder? No more Baseball folks, gotta go to rehab. :^)
The problem that half of asian parents believe their child has 😒 “addiction” gets thrown around so easily
Um kinda, I know being Asian, but these people do need help
Because gaming addiction is pretty common so I don't blame those Asian parents
I'm all for rehab for actual addiction but, reSTART is really sketchy. I had a friend of mine who was forced to go there by their parents. They used her college funds for it and she wasn't even actually addicted. I've heard of some levels of abuse that happens at reSTART.
There needs to be some sort of screening to ensure that the clients do actually have an addiction and it isn't someone's parents trying to get them to stop doing something because the parents dislike it.
I’ll watch the video before I judge.
1 1 great comment
terpinhawgin666 never mind this was stupid
Idky but I thought the journalist was so funny to watch. Like when he was interviewin he just looked annoyed or somethin
online gaming is a real addiction
30000 buck for 8weeks another money racket how is that legal thats a damm scam wtf
Gaming can be addicting, anyone who says otherwise is a *fool*
hahahaa. no no. gaming adiction is caused by somthing else.
Why don’t we just make every hobby an addiction. Dont compare alcohol and drug addiction where there is chemical dependency. It makes no damn sense.
Not defending this at all because it's a cash grab and I think that it's disgusting but dopamine and it's then following opioids are as much of a substance as alcohol .
Brett Van Overstraeten i have no idea what you are trying to say. Also, that was the most egregious run on sentence i have ever seen.
Playing video games for 14 hours is not a hobby but yeah overpriced.
Seriously? What about gambling addiction? Do a simple youtube search about someone's life getting destroyed...
Totally agree with you mate !!
For me the best way to get rid of gaming addiction has always been going on vacation for 2-3 weeks.
Thanks vice.
This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a week
From scammers creating game addicts to scammer rehabs. The cycle never ends.
You take these gamers and you give them a job making games, period. Make a living, get an AI and computer programmers education and leave your parents home. I've seen it done very successfully over and over.
By classifying this as an addiction it trivializes the legitimate struggle that addicts face.
True fucking that!!! I can see running wild in college because you're out of your element, and on your own schedule as was the case for 2 of the guys featured, but the WHO sticking its nose in a subject area NEVER BEFORE MENTIONED when it came to arcades, is a serious stretch. And without any extensive research done into this matter it leaves the topic wide open to debate.
I’ve been to rehab for my own problems and met fiends for everything. A man drank hand sanitizer to try and get drunk. When I head this pissy acne faced teen say “I’m an addict it’s in my blood” I was infuriated. There is a difference between laziness/lack of discipline and addiction. This is so BS theyed make these people pay more then what most drug rehabs charge. 😡
@@MatthewJones876 If you're truly an addict, then how dare you judge another addict for their issues and their struggles. You've clearly not spent enough time in that rehab center and didn't learn a damn thing, nor a single bit of compassion. Shame on you.
GAMERS RISE UP
i love the sound of gamers being triggered tbh
30k, per person, every 8 weeks, with the patients doing all the household chores? How much money must they be raking in!
These people need self control rehab not gaming smh
agreed, legalize all drugs!
Pay me 10k and I'll take your computer away as a bonus.
Just become more responsible, you're giving the rest of us a bad wrap, or do drugs and get focused boi
I've tryed some drugs, cigarettes and alcohol and none of them made me an addicte except for gaming.
Well if you're gonna get addicted to something you could do a lot worse than video games.
Technology, digital, network is everywhere. Even if you try your best to avoid it. It's still going to come your way.
Gamers are the most oppressed minority
LOL
I wonder how many people upvoted him unironically
they all did
@@weezerwookie lol are you talking about yourself?
It shouldn't be so expensive.
As a junkie this pisses me off. You know the physical hell we go through when we kick shit? Meanwhile they’re whining cause they have to give up their favorite toy?! I WISH I had 30 grand for rehab. Hell, I’d be happy with 10!
But a drug is your "favourite toy"
Danvanthevacuumman Not through any choice of my own.
Gabor Maté - realm of the hungry ghost
@@lucasart328 you're not very intelligent...
Drugs leave you with a physical dependency games do not...
when you come off of opiates you literally feel like you're dying and your brain thinks you were dying it is some of the worst pain in the entire world and for you to be naive and just say but drugs are your toy you are just uneducated
Rickest Rick drugs not through any choice of your own? You chose to start taking them..
I don't know how I feel about this. In my early teens I was very "addicted" to video games but the more I think about it I feel like it was the sense of being a part of a community then being addicted to a specific game. My parents were drug addicts and I didn't have many friends so the internet became my only way of socializing. I'm almost 19 now and have tried to get back into gaming but I don't enjoy it like I used to and I'm assuming that's because I'm playing alone. I'm sure everyone situation is different but I wouldn't compare the addiction to drugs like the guy did in the end. I have experience with that kind of addiction as well. You can quit playing video games and go back to playing casually which just isn't the case for most drug addicts. If the use again, just once they'll fall back into their addiction.
There was a time where I used video games to escape far too much and would've considered it a bad habit, not an addiction, but a very poor habit.
Basically from the age of 12 to 18 I played video games for a minimum of 2 hours a day, but in reality it was more like I'd squeeze in every moment possible to play video games from the moment I got home from school til I feel asleep, with watching some youtube in between to take a short break.
However, as I got further into my teen years, I started playing less and less. I was getting burnt out on games. Especially multiplayer games, which were the most addictive. I realized I was getting angry more than I was having fun in competitive online games. So I slowly just stopped playing all together.
Now I primarily play singleplayer games like Skyrim, platformers, etc...
I still play Battlefield, but that's because its a casual shooter.
I spend less than a couple hours gaming each day now, and sometimes I can go for 2 weeks without even thinking about booting up a game.
Book = time
Game = time
Somehow I can see imaginary time needed for each item in the store
Sounds about white.
video game rehab facilitys look like gay conversion camps, because its does a hit and run by people who outright hate videogames and treat it as an honor to "treat" them like addicts like a catholic likes to treat gay people.
Gaming disorder: is no disorder, it can be an addiction but the criteria for gaming addiction tends to so vauge, its to the point where even just a minute of videogames destroy a human being.
Just look at people who are addicted to there jobs. People just like to work. Much like how gamers like to have fun.
TL:DR: addictions are addictions and should be treated the same as any other addiction, and just because someone has a job addiction; doesn't mean they need to quit there job.
Edit: also, you would be surprised with how our current world is adapting to technology to the point of dependency; even to the point where the only way to find a job is thought online applications
and the only way to really play with people is online. even if it does demand a different reward system. changing of the reward system isn't new, like stone age vs. our current age. where one demands to be a good hunter or gather and the other requires you to look for systematic jobs.
They can't blame the game, they're just lazy...
She said that they don't have any technology (screens), but there's a TV on the living room. 🤔🤔
13 hours a day? Psh! That's nothing. Ling Ling does 40 hours a day, and still has time to practice violin.
Canada:ima gona go outside
USA:oh ok I'll stay in here and play fortnite
Ok, where are the television rehab centers? Where are the golf rehab centers? Where are the BOOK rehab centers.
Gaming addiction is symptomatic, just like any addiction. It baffles me that she assumes these addicts "come from good, nice middle class homes" when so many aspects of addiction are linked to disconnect and social dysfunction.
Gaming addicts don't game because the games are too addictive. They game because something else is wrong in their lives and they're using games to cope and feel successful.
I played wow endlessly you escape high school bullying. And once I finally wasnt stuck in high school anymore? I quit. Easily. Because my life wasnt a toxic nightmare. Unless rehab centers address the underlying cause of the addiction they're not going to solve anything. Gaming is not the disease, its the symptom.
Well anxiety and depression causes people to play games and video games is just a way to escape it
If there was a TV and movie addiction rehab it would be overwhelmed with people.
I watch these videos so I do not overdo it, sometimes I can't get enough of gaming. But I always try balance out everything.
According to this video everyone in America is now considered an addict to video games due to Coronavirus
the restart rehab program was complete rubbish. we were idiots to try it out. it did not help with the gaming addiction at all. it only made our son worse. it turned our son from an open, mild person into a violent, furious savaged beast who would easily get angry, bang on the wall, close himself from the world and refuse to talk to us. all those individualism ideals that they taught, like it's ok if you go homeless or starving or even commit suicide as long as you can live with the consequences. He sure is living with the consequences that haunted him for life. We're living with the consequences. Whereas the restart rehab program and Cosette Rae, the head of this program, just walked away continuing to feed on people's fake hope and turn a profit out of it.
Hi! I'm working on a review for a documentary that features this rehab center. Could you provide more details about your experiences?
I knew I'm vg addicted when I bought 2 DS4 controllers and not having a console. :(
Not the worst idea but stupidly expensive.
$30,000 , that can pay for my tuition for college!!
Pre-COVID -19: The World Health Organization made video game addiction an official mental health disorder. (USA Today)
During-COVID-19: Games industry companies have a global audience - we encourage all to PlayApartTogether. (USA Today)
Until you experience a family member with this problem...sit down and stay quiet.
I remember back in high school I'd spend 8 hours in one sitting on a video game. Play from 9 pm till 5 am sleep for one hour then go to school. After graduating I got a job. Started to play less. Attended college and played less. Now I'm working 40 - 50 hours a week I'll spend maybe 4 hours on one of my days off playing a game. That's about it.
Just go to military school/bootcamp, it'll work just as good and is way cheaper
I am a gamer but 13 hours a day is kinda too much unless ur earning from playing games.I play about 1-2 hours of games during a school day and 3 hours during weekends and 4-5 hours during long vacations.
human mind is so weird it's get addicted to anything
I know a lot of you guys are saying that paying $30,000 a year is highway robbery, and I honestly agree. However, if it was a lower price and you or your parents thought you were addicted to something (not just video games, possibly drugs, gambling, etc.), wouldn't you try to fix that? A decent chunk of America really tries to avoid getting psychological help from professionals, and instead just kind of wear their mental disabilities on their sleeves. If anything, I applaud these guys for admitting that they were addicted to gaming, and it's probably because they had/have addictive personalities. Now, just going to rehab might be the start of fixing their problems with addiction, or it could be the end of it, but the fact that they've done anything about it at all is awesome to me.
A lot of games nowadays are starting to implement currency systems that take advantage of the brain's dopamine systems, and while this mindset has simmered down since November with the EA Star Wars Battlefront II fiasco (kotaku.com/a-guide-to-the-endless-confusing-star-wars-battlefront-1820623069), companies are still trying to take your money just as much as they were before. A huge example of this would be Take-Two Interactive/Rockstar and GTA V's use of microtransactions. They've made billions of dollars from GTA V alone, and roughly 42% of that comes from microtransactions (www.ign.com/articles/2018/04/09/gta-5-has-made-more-money-than-any-film-book-or-game-says-analyst). While I'm a huge gamer, and I usually tend to stray towards the "video games aren't a bad thing" side, this is a legitimate concern for some people, especially those with addictive personalities.
Our Ancestors would be disappointed, highly disappointed.
I almost believed them,
until they started vaping...
To much of a Good thing is a bad thing ,Everything in moderation
0:46 At first I was like: what is Topson doing there?
This is not "trivializing substance addiction". This is expanding science's knowledge and understanding of the human mind and all of its nuances and potentials. Are you an addict? Have you experienced what it's like to be in an addicted brain? If you have, then shame on you for judging another addict. You need to go through your 12 step program again. Have you not? Then shame on you for assuming, judging, and adding your two cents to something you don't and can't possibly understand with your armchair psychology degree.
If Gay to Straight conversion camps can be outlawed, so can these. GAMERS RISE UP!
its just this one and nobody goes to it because its 30k what a rip off
The South Koreans know more about this problem than anybody. Anyone in the U.S who runs this type of program should look to them for guidance. Our insurance companies won't even recognize it as a disorder? - Hell in South Korea, they have centers run by actual medical doctors where people can even get TMS treatments, for Gods sake! Vice did another show about that. They are so far ahead of any other country on this issue.
If there's gaming rehab why isn't there tech rehab?... I mean the whole world is addicted to thier phone screens.
I would go to rehab but you can't pause multiplayer.