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By Game Politics Staff
Live Science has the bizarre story of an unnamed 29 year old man, who reportedly tore a tendon in his thumb after playing Candy Crush Saga on his mobile phone for an extended period of time. The story is part of "case report" written by Dr. Andrew Doan in an April 13th issue of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. He's a co-author of the case report and head of addictions research at the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
According to that report, the unidentified man didn't notice the pain in his hand while playing the game. Dr. Doan claims that the reason for this is simple enough: "certain video games can act like digital painkillers," he claims. When the man went to doctor's he complained that his hand hurt and that he had been playing the game "all day for six to eight weeks."
Of course, the case report's focus is on game addiction, and ultimately offers advice on the topic like seeking a support group if you play games too frequently.
It should be noted that both "video game" and "Internet" addictions are not recognized as "real addictions" by the international mental health community - compared to other addictions such as gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex, etc...
You can read the full Live Science report on this case here.
Live Science has the bizarre story of an unnamed 29 year old man, who reportedly tore a tendon in his thumb after playing Candy Crush Saga on his mobile phone for an extended period of time. The story is part of "case report" written by Dr. Andrew Doan in an April 13th issue of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. He's a co-author of the case report and head of addictions research at the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
According to that report, the unidentified man didn't notice the pain in his hand while playing the game. Dr. Doan claims that the reason for this is simple enough: "certain video games can act like digital painkillers," he claims. When the man went to doctor's he complained that his hand hurt and that he had been playing the game "all day for six to eight weeks."
Of course, the case report's focus is on game addiction, and ultimately offers advice on the topic like seeking a support group if you play games too frequently.
It should be noted that both "video game" and "Internet" addictions are not recognized as "real addictions" by the international mental health community - compared to other addictions such as gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex, etc...
You can read the full Live Science report on this case here.