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Education and addiction in China
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A Vital Three Points
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Why Women Crave for Sugar More Than Men
Whether it is having something sweet after dinner each night, or speeding to their local supermarket for the biggest can of ice cream or chocolate bar, sugar wins with most females. Dr Kenneth Onyango, of Gulf clinic in … in their bodies," Onyango …
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Why Fanboys Act Like Jerks
Despite the amount of annoyance that console fanboys have caused me over the years as a person writing about video games on the Internet, despite the endless comments threads they have derailed with their arguments, I still have a small reserve of …
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Taking Charge: Dipping into a parent's money may be a form of elder abuse
Elder abuse happens in every city and town. Victims can be poor or … Difficult economic times, alcohol or substance abuse, gambling addiction, excessive debt or the caregiver's own financial problems can lead to stealing an elder's money or property.
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Heroin Epidemic Challenges Nonprofits and Health Insurance Alike
But what if the treatment is insufficient, as in the case of Marchese, or worse, if insurance companies won't pay for adequate treatment, as Anthony Rizzuto of Long Island's Seafield Center suggests sometimes happens? According to AP, “Because …
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CHAREN: Press gets it wrong again
Ironically, Lopez had commented on his Facebook page about Adam Lanza, the Newtown murderer, writing: Lanza “pretends to be a victim of a mental illness followed by addiction to violent video games.” He continued, “It is stupid to me that anyone can …
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Limit the time your kids spend playing video games
Dear Reader: I've yet to meet a child who doesn't like video games. But this kind of ….. Some children may get addicted to them. It's easy to get … Here are some ways you can help ensure that video games don't cause problems for your son: Limit the …
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SD Lottery Commission advances gambling study
Lawmakers defeated two bills championed by the lottery this session, including one to allow more video lottery terminals in licensed establishments and another to increase the bet limit on video lottery games. “I guess you can call us stubborn,” Lingle …
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Heroin Across America: At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
He shoplifted video games from stores and resold them. He broke into cars, pawning anything he could … "You can learn every trick in the book to prevent you from using, but you have to use what they teach you." He returned to marijuana and cocaine …
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Kevin Drew Just Wants to Kiss Somebody
Below, Noisey is happy to premiere the musician's new music video for “Mexican Aftershow Party,” a beautiful, subtle track off of his second solo record, Darlings, which is out now. He's also announcing a show in Los Angeles with Zach Galifinakis at …
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Question by Vigor: Can you get PTSD from video game addiction?
Post-traumatic stress disorder. I still suffer same symptoms as if i were still addicted to video games.

Feeling blue (depressed)
Memory loss
Unorganized
Irritability
Paranoia
Stress
Acne
Insomnia
Lethargy
Eating disorder
Lack of biorhythmic sleep
Lack of punctuality and priority
Lack of focus and concentration
Quality of life
Generally affects my daily life

Best answer:

Answer by Idontknow
Uhm, no. It’s not post traumatic stress. You’re probably already depressed/anxious to begin with and then started using video games to escape these feelings. What should you do? Stop playing the games so much and start working on yourself and ugh, acne is not caused by post traumatic stress or video game addiction.

Answer by majnun99
No. PTSD is when somebody has recurrent nightmares/hallucinations about a traumatic event such as being raped, seeing people killed, etc. Nothing you describe sounds like PTSD.    Read more...