Could The Answer To Video Game Addiction Be More Online Interaction?

Mental illness is isolating. No matter what the diagnosis is, almost everyone who struggles with a mental illness feels bitterly alone in their struggles. Some diagnoses are more isolating than others. As mental illness continues to become part of the mainstream narrative, opening dialogues is helping people feel they are not so alone. Often in

Should Video Game Addiction Be A Legitimate Diagnosis?

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is considered the ultimate authority on what is a legitimate and illegitimate diagnosis for mental illness. In recent years, after tumultuous debate, marijuana use disorder was added under the section “substance use disorders” which is an alternative term for “addiction”. For years, marijuana was considered non-addictive. Other