Sounds like a case of extreme exhaustion but who can tell with such little information?

That said, how addicted could this kid possibly be if he told his dad to get rid of his Playstation?

Andrew Eisen

I think it was a Seizure IMO

To say that you can't get addicted to video games is kind of ignorant.  You can get addicted to anything.  They say that weed doesn't have any addictive substances in it, but there are lots of people who are dependent on it.

For it to go that far, that seems like a special isolated case that couldn't be replicated if you tried.  I've gone on all night binges of playing all sorts of game systems (also durring all ages of my life) and have never had any adverse effects except for being a little sleepy.

He needed sleep and food.

Soooo, where were the parents?

This story is so full of Bullshit I'm speechless.

Hunting the shadows of the troubled dreams.

Great so now we have console specific addiction.  As if the console war wasn't bad enough.  Next we'll have fanboys screaming about "PS3 is better cause it's more addicting!!!!!!"

Maybe he'll be alright once somebody gets him a Playstation 2?

Not only is this politician not telling us whether this boy was suffering from another mental disability (which, with cases like this, is a VERY real possibility) but if he has none, than he's probably going to blame the system for making it in the first place. You know people HERE will.

E.T. used to have a similar effect on my Atari...

Seriously though, sounds almost exactly like an Abscence Seizure to me, photosensitivy induced, no direct 'seizure', but a complete obliviousness to surroundings, lack of response to stimuli and involuntary muscle spasms. It's often known as 'petit mal'.

My wife suffers from Epilepsy, so I had to learn about this stuff ;)

That's really scary. Hope the kid feels better. But there's got to be some better explanation. I can understand that it might be addiction but there's got to be something also wrong on the kids part too. Again, my condolances to the kid and hopes he feels better.

I really hope that the doctors will approach what happend as a symptom of some greater problem and not the problem itself.  Seriously, if playing a playstation renders you like you just had a stroke then there is quite likely a deeper medical issue here.

-Ultimately what will do in mankind is a person's fear of their own freedom-

"Italy"

Case closed.

My only question is what game was he playing?

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin

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United we Stand, Divided we fall.

When I see some real professionals (YOU HEAR THAT COOPER LAWRENCE?) conduct some real research, on real people, in the real world, and come up with real answers, I'll look up from Left 4 dead and listen.

See, this is a little different then the story I had read, which claimed the doctor had diagnosed it as Playstation Addiction, which would make absolutely no sense at all.

For the brief moment, let us assume that they were talking about some drug. Kid gets drug, takes too much, and winds up in the hospital... do they call that an addiction or an overdose?

Even if the Playstation WAS a drug, the diagnosis wouldn't have fit.

This is something VERY obvious. You need to sleep. You need to eat. You need to move around over a period of time. This has little to nothing to do with video games other then something that is distracting the kids. Parents would never let their kids watch TV for 24 hours strait.

Let me not get this confused with other issues. Staying up to 2am, if done responsibly, is not a problem. Staying up to 6AM, if it is not already part of your normal routine, could be particularly trying on your body. Staying up 24 hours is dangerous for just about anyone.

Anyway, the main point of my post is that while this could arguably be called PlayStation Overdose, calling it PlayStation Addiction is so obviously wrong as it would have to be motivated by another agenda.