Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by trappist on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:25PM
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I had a mobile game I spent nearly this much on before my wife persuaded me, with some help from my experience with addiction, that it was exactly this. A year or so later I still get a little adrenaline rush if I happen to look at the clock and it's exactly 2pm which means I'm running late for an important event in the game. Sucks.
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Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by crescentfresh on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:26PM
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> with some help from my experience with addiction
Is there a spectrum to addiction? A dopamine response is a dopamine response, at what point would an activity be classified as an addiction outside the hyperbole of "affects your job/relationship/eating/etc"
Re:A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game
by DanBC on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:21PM
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The old definition of addiction required physical dependency. Alcohol and opioids give this. Other stuff not so much. Stopping alcohol if you have a physical dependence cannbe fatal, so that's one big way it's different to a gambling addiction.
The new definition (preoccupation; seeking; increased "dose"; continuing when you know it's casing harm) is useful because it allows earlier intervention and covers a wider range of things that damage people.