Therapist Repeats "Gaming is Like Snorting Cocaine" Claim

Hawk of Battle

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A friend of mine tried to be funny the other day and intentionally tried to slam a door into my arm as I was walking through it with a cup of hot chocolate in my hands. I lost my grip and the drink spilled everywhere. I proceeded to shout at him in front of a large crowd of passers-by, called him a dick and then marched his arse back to the cafe to buy me another.

Clearly I must be addicted to this cocain/chocolate drink stuff then...
 

Mcupobob

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Now I've had a controller and have myself had a controller snatched. I have also seen a alcoholic have his booze snatched from him. Two different levels. The first being slightly annoyed and the latter being angry/scary sad/unaware.

Any who, from my Psycho analysis. This man is as we say in the biz "stuck up his ass, and insanely crazy. Mind you, I don't have a PhD or anything. I just have a stack of books I've never read on my desk and a radio show. It also helps that I have a fake crusade I'm using to get money, but I'm just a big enough narcissist to believe that I'm right and I'm not doing it for the money but to spread my message of truth, and for my effort deserve to be paid for it. Also that everyone else who disagrees is crazy!
 

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I will say there is an iota of truth to what he says. People who give up video games wont feel withdrawal, but think when your mom/dad/roommate walked in front of the TV and you were like, "Oh shit you just killed my guy." Not quite the alcohol reaction he foretold but it is a reaction and I guess it is an odd concept to have something invested in something you spent hours playing.
As for physically debilitating, the youth of the US are getting fatter. But there is no evidence that video games are the causative agent, there may be correlated evidence but that is not as strong. Hard to say with peoples diets going to hell and exercise programs being underfunded.
 

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awesomeClaw said:
...What?

Like...what?

"If you take a kids videogame station away he will react like an alcoholic would" what kind of bullshit is that? You might as well say sex is corrupting this generation! "Sex causes an endorphin rush in the brain, therefor it is EVVUUUUUUULLLLLLLLL!"

If someone stopped you in the middle of sex, i´m pretty sure you´d be pissed to.
Hell if I cock-blocked my brother I'm pretty sure he'd want to straight up murder my ass. It's not that he's addicted to sex' it's the fact that he just got out of a bad marriage with a cheating woman, and he wants to get his rocks off.

OT: Here is a list of 10 random things that can also create an endorphin high:

#1 Sex (that's sorta obvious)

#2 Chocolate

#3 Music

#4 A punch to the face, or any pain really (seriously pain releases endorphins)

#5 Skydiving (or any extreme sport really) also you get an adrenaline high. (gasp) Double killer!

#6 Playing a musical instrument.

#7 Being an Eco/Political-douche.

#8 Being an average douche.

#9 Your favorite sports team winning a game.

#10 Playing D&D

honorable mention goes to making an original, and witty remark about Rosie 'O Donnel. Sorta like: You know she's not really gay. It's true. One day she looked in the mirror, and thought "Well no man will do me but I gotta get laid somehow......... A sympathy lay from a chick will do.

P.S. the Rosie thing is just a joke don't get pissy if you're a fan of hers. Do they even exist? maybe it's like bigfoot. People claim sightings , but they're just made up stories, or people in costume.
 

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lacktheknack said:
Upon failing a math midterm last year, I was banned from basically ALL games for three months straight.

I suffered no withdrawal and only had mild urges to stop studying and go play games, about equivalent to my urges to go read books instead.

So what this man is telling me is that cocaine is a safe drug with virtually no addictive properties that will give me a moderate high while studying.

Good to know! I'll go find some and try it right away! I wonder why it's illegal...?

EDIT: Or maybe he's telling me that books are as addictive as cocaine as well...?
Thank you good sir, you've just become my hero of the day.
 

chiggerwood

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
I'm just wondering how you grind the games up into powder.

BTW, which games is Charlie Sheen playing?
I'm thinking ol' Charlie's doing the hard stuff. You know what I'm talking about, Boshock. You know how it is man, you start experimenting with Mario Bros. Then you start movie to harder stuff like fallout, or mass effect. then next thing you know your blasting line after line of ICO of the breast of a cheap hooker in a shitty motel room in Taiwan, and then suddenly you're washed up, and all out of quest.
 

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I loved playing legoes when I was a child I usually played around 4 hours with them nonstop
I loved watching movies as a child, I especially like cartoons.
I loved reading books as a child, I usually read around 200 pages in one sitting.
I loved Handball when I was a child, I played as long as I could.
I love cooking, I usually cook as much as I want.
I like playing video games, I play around 3 hours in one sitting, sometimes less.

When they took my legoes, I sometimes cried to sleep ( I was 4-6 years old when I did that)
When the movie ended I wanted more, or when someone started talking to me in the middle of the movie, I got pissed.
When I read books (I have an overactive imagination) I forget to eat sleep, and when someone takes my book, I get out another one, and when someone talks to me, I don't hear them.
I LOVED handball, I was good at it, I played for hours with my friend, and I hated stopping.
If someone interrupted my cooking I said: GTFO, my fish is gonna burn if you bother me.
I like video games, I have no problems with someone interrupting me unless it is online play, or unless the game has no pause button. But if someone takes my controller I start reading, if someone cuts the power, then I getangry, but start cooking to calm down

This means, that if video games are cocain
Then so are legoes,
movies,
books,
Sports
and cooking.


My (scientific)conclusion is that the person who wrote that article is a attention whore or a simple idiot. Anything entertaining makes people angry if they take it away.
 

PurplePlatypus

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Yeah, this is after the tug of war as you come and rudely interrupt whatever I?m doing with no prior warning.

If this guy is talking about how extrema the emotion might seem, it may also be because they are still young and learning the proper response to these sorts of things. I mean children are hardly known for their mature emotional response, adults strugle enough with it.
 

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To make his point, he suggested that parents listening to the program "go upstairs to your kid's bedroom and try and take the game station controller out of their hands." They will react "in the same way as an alcoholic would if you tried to take their booze. It's scary," he said.
..or in the same way anyone drinking ANYTHING would react if you took it from them. The objection is not "DON'T TAKE IT AWAY I NEED IT", but "Oi! I was drinking that, ya prick!" (Or some variation. You get the idea.)

OK, we gamers can all see that this guy's argument is pathetic, but what really annoys me is that other people probably won't and the medium will end up with a worse reputation and as even more of a scapegoat than before. We need some way to get the truth out. Some way we can let people know that games are just another medium like film or music.
 

Lord_Nemesis

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This dude should be shot. Christ as if it's not hard enough to be a gamer without this crap flying about. Aye, take my controller away from me mid game I would be pissed but so would I if you toook away say... my Jack's and Coke mid gulp, my book mid sentence, my girl mid sex. Who would not get pissed off with someone taking anything away from you while engaging in whatever medium it provides.

So aye, the guy should be shot.
 

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So we took away this guys home and he acted like an alcoholic with no booze.
 

Von Dean

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Wow another ignorant douche,making damning statements about a subject he clearly doesn't know much about. My main concern with this is that because he is a professional with a PhD then the non-gaming members of the public/parents etc. may believe this unsubstantiated claim.
If I had a PhD i'd make the claim that being a therapist is equal to being a sex offender,I wonder how quickly a claim like that would be dismissed...