9.13.19 Gaming addiction is now considered a psychological disorder; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The World Health Organization has declared excessive gaming a psychological disorder. A MarketWatch survey reveals the number of people spending an hour or more a day playing video games increased 20% over the last year. Many believe they'll go pro and earn a living and become reclusive and obsessive in the endeavor, gaming constantly. For parents, it's a tug of war you want your kid to win, so game time should be strictly limited. Who knew the pro athlete mentality would translate into gaming. The winner of a Fortnight competition won $3M, reinforcing others to abandon all else for gaming. But, for athletes and gamers, almost no one makes the cut as a pro and those who do have a short career. Clark answers his critics on Clark Stinks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.5	So there's a big fight going on behind the scenes because the World Health Organization
1:38.5	has now labeled excessive gaming as a psychological disorder. And the reality is there are people with
1:53.2	addictive personalities who spend steadily more hours gaming. There was a survey done that I saw
2:03.6	a market watch that the number of people spending an hour and more a day playing video games
2:14.8	increased 20% over the last year. But that's child's play an hour a day. So there are a lot of people
2:24.5	who believe they're going to be a professional gamer that they're going to earn a living being a
2:30.3	gamer. And they become obsessed. Don't leave their rooms. Don't see the outside world. Maybe
2:38.6	don't get out of their pajamas. And they're spending enough hours. They could be maybe doing a
2:47.0	full-time job just gaming. So I can tell you where my journey has been with my kids. And that is
3:04.4	that when a child gets into playing video games, our whole thing has been being in the tug of war.
3:17.6	That we want our kid to win. Because the kid wants to just play and play and play and they can get
3:23.8	more and more addicted to it. So what we have done is we limit the amount of time that our kids will
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