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=**Is video gaming addiction a mental disorder?**=

Works cited: Tanner, Lindsey. "Is Video-game Addiction a Mental Disorder? - Technology & Science - Games - Msnbc.com." //Msnbc.com - Breaking News, Science and Tech News, World News, US News, Local News- Msnbc.com//. Web. 15 Nov. 2011

Summary: Is video gaming addiction a mental disorder? American Medical Association wanted to put the disorder of kids playing games as a illness in the mental illness manual. Michael Gallagher president of the Entertainment SoftWare Association said that video gaming is not a mental disorder.

Three Major Quotes : 1.) “My father was an alcoholic ... and I saw exactly the same thing” in Michael, Protoplasm said. “We battled him until October of last year,” she said. “We went to therapists, we tried taking the game away.

2.) "A 13 year old boy said "I think I need help"

3.) "A women from new Haven, Conn bought her son a game and she says Now that I looked back on it, its like i went out and bought him his first Jack Daniel's"

3 Facts 1.)The people who make video games deny that it is their video games that are causing psychiatric disorders.

2.) In 2001 a 21 year old boy kills himself while playing a game.

3.) 90% of American kids play video games.