The clinic says it underestimated the amount of referrals it would receive.
Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones."[We have] had about 800 referrals to a clinic that was expected to see no more than 50 patients a year."separate Guardian report details,
The subject of 'game addiction' has always been a thorny one. We've come a long way from the lack of nuance we saw in the late 90s, where a moral panic over Mortal Kombat's gory finishers was responsible for establishing the. While the idea of games causing violence has been thoroughly disproven, the fallout of those panics has left many with a difficult gut response to headlines like the above.
"The pattern of harm often starts with a change of circumstance," Bowden-Jones explains, citing upheavals such as a move between schools, a change of home, losing friends, bullying, or a fragmentation of the family as examples that push her patients to seek out online support structures. Her work, however, doesn't just apply to children in difficult situations. Adults have been self-referring, as well.
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