Full FeedItalian teen is diagnosed with “PlayStation Addiction” by politician
It seems the US may not be the only country with anti-video game crusaders.
Ananova reports that a 13-year-old Italian boy has been diagnosed with “PlayStation Addiction.” Curiously, the diagnosis did not come from the doctors at the hospital who treated the boy but by a local Italian politician named Antonio Buccoliero (a Regional Councilor of Puglia, Italy). According to Ananova, Buccoliero said, “They eventually managed to take care of him once they understood that this was a strange kind of mental detachment connected to his Playstation.”
That “mental detachment” was thought to be a stroke or severe brain disorder at first when 13-year-old Lorenzo Amato “couldn’t speak and didn’t seem to understand anything going on around him” after a marathon gaming session.
After the incident the boy told his father to get rid of the PlayStation, saying, “If I even think about it I want to throw up.”
Of course, as everyone knows, there’s already a tried and true cure for child PlayStation addiction: Good parenting.
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As an Italian I read the story, and i have to say that’s not a crusade of a politician agrainst videogames. What Buccoleri said is about how our healtcare (which is often biased for bein very bad) sometime is doing right since the hospital who treated the boy made all the right step to diagnose that the disorder was due to the excessive (not addiction) of the playstation and not some other obscure reason.
on November 24, 2008 at 08:33 AM - LINKTo sum in up, we had some case in which some politician went against video games (like Mafia at the time of release), but THIS time it didn’t happen.