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The good news is that you aren’t addicted to video games. The bad news is that you are socially awkward.
Those are the findings of Keith Bakker, head of the Smith & Jones Centre in Amsterdam, Europe’s only treatment center for video game addicts (as reported by the BBC).
Since 2006, the mild-manneredly named Smith & Jones Centre has seen hundreds of gamers. From this pool, Bakker and his colleagues have learned that most compulsive gamers aren’t technically addicted. Instead gaming provides maladjusted people a place where they are socially accepted. In other words, you aren’t hooked on gaming, you’re using them to compensate.
“I liked gaming because people couldn’t see me, they accepted me as my online character – I could be good at something and feel part of a group,” said George, an 18-year-old who played 10 hours of Call of Duty 4 daily.