Suddenly, a New Diagnosis: PlayStation Addiction

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United we Stand, Divided we fall.

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

"Italy"

Case closed.

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-

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.

Nobody has pointed out yet that doctors discovered he played a "marathon Playstation session" is entirely unrelated to how alert he was, and is thus a complete non sequitur.

I'll put some examples to illustrate exactly why his physical state and "Playstation session" are unrelated.

"The teenager couldn't speak and didn't seem to understand anything going on around him. Then doctors discovered he'd just(replace 'finished a marathon session on his new Playstation' with one of these): 

watched 'The Simple Life'.

eaten a Taco Supreme.

listened to James Blunt.

found out he was adopted.

played Superman 64.

joined Scientology.

made love to a burrito.

swallowed a smoke detector.

stuffed salt up his nose.

learned he could get a million dollars from a nigerian prince.

installed Windows Vista.

read Perez Hilton.

read the book of Leviticus.

watched 'That's so Raven'."

Thus, it makes perfect sense!

Right? No? Alright.

Clearly there need to be higher educational standards in Italian Medical Schools. If they they took something this that doesn't usually cause problems and used it as a medical diagnosis in any other country, their butts would be out on the street and they'd be feeding their family by doing tricks behind the 7-11. 

Also, I propose that politicians have a weekly limit of 30 minutes for political grandstanding.

I think this also merits a...

*PICARD-PALM*

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"A Chrono Trigger is anything that unleashes its will or desire to change history!" -Gaspar

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 ;)

Hi folks, long time reader, first time I've posted on the new boards...

Poor kid.. probably got it drilled into his head that it was the Playstations fault he got sick.. stressed out over it instead because parents and doctors and now he feels ill if he even thinks about the Playstation..

Sounds a bit like a reverse Pavlovs Dog..

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.

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

So if it is this "Playstation addiction", then all we have to do is play Xbox 360 or Wii to avoid it? That's a load off my mind, I've barely touched my PlayStation 2 in the last 6 months!