What's with everybody defending themselves? Feel attacked by these research? They are here to help people that really need it. If you feel attacked it's that you feel targetted by that. Not everybody think they are addicted but sometimes they are. That they can live with it or not it's not the problem, it's the result that counts. You don't have to kill your mother or shoot at people in real life to be threatened by gaming. The whole world needs help and we know it every addiction as little as it is is bad in the long term, gaming is not very old and it's already started to change people life but the earth remains in need and we are only addicted to things outside of us instead of changing it.

I think(and I'm maybe wrong) that it's the result that counts. If you play a game that you care or not you'Re addicted, it's not the problem. What results does gaming gives? A rush of sensations starting from the brain. It's like any other addictions. Everybody seeks something outside of them to give sensations they need to feel happy. You can be happy with anything if you deceide that it makes you happy, everything starts from the brain(what you think). Play if you want to play, there's nobody out there that's gonna tell you what you got to do or need to do, we're the only one that can do that for ourselves. 10 years of gaming will maybe give you 10 years of pleasure but the result... a dozen level 80 WOW characters? Is it really what we want, when we're gonna die, what are we gonna think? The past is a tool we can use in the present, if our tool is filled with addictions, this tool ain't gonna make us buy a house, change the world, stop polluting, giving better air to breathe. What kind of future are we going into? We could maybe try to change the world outside of us by changing the inside, instead of being addicted to the outside world and our inside power being controlled by it.