{"id":7441,"date":"2019-05-27T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2020-10-05T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:20:03","slug":"world-health-organisation-classes-gaming-disorder-as-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/world-health-organisation-classes-gaming-disorder-as-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organisation classes &#8216;gaming disorder&#8217; as disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that &#8216;gaming disorder&#8217; will be added to the 11th edition of the WHO International Classification of Diseases, which will come into effect in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to make &#8220;excessive gaming&#8221; a legitimate mental disorder has caused a stir across the gaming community, as it does remind many gamers of the time their parents complained about how much time they spent playing their favourite 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loose wording for the three key symptoms attributed to the disorder, as they could be applied to almost everyone who spends time playing video games.<\/p>\n<p>Pro gamers have put out some interesting responses under the #gamingdisorder tag on Twitter, including this from professional Fortnite player and streamer TSM Chica:<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m devastated. I just found out that all of my hard work streaming over the last five years has merely been the manifestation of a crippling disease. I\u2019m deleting all of my accounts effective immediately guys I\u2019m sorry. <\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t believe I\u2019m suffering from \u201cgaming disorder.\u201d ?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chica (@TSM_Chica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSM_Chica\/status\/1132340452001230848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><center><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" title=\"Latest gaming news\">MORE ESPORTS NEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation has officially recognised &#8216;gaming disorder&#8217; as a legitimate mental health problem, sparking quite a lot of debate among the global gaming community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,674,673],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-gaming-disorder","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14541,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/14541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}