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Gaming addiction is now an official medical diagnosis | Learn the English expression ‘put ahead of’

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Video Games Are an Addiction

The scientific community is split on weather video games and other behavior addictions like exercise, shopping and eating should be classified as addictions. I'll give you the arguments for and against classifying gaming as an addiction. Losing time to an addiction is just as bad, if not worse, than losing money in a casino. Everyone's brain releases pleasure chemicals like dopamin and saratonan when we engage in pleasurable behaviors but that process is disordered in gamers.

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