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Reminds me of my youth... completely oblivious to girls. I liked them, but I thought there was a special way to talk to them.

I have since learned that things are not nearly so complicated.

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what a bullshit ending. 'he still plays video games'. care to elaborate at all? i mean if it was 'he is back taking heroin' then fine, not much else is needed. but 'he still plays video games' is so vague and un-informative...

Wow, 17-24 hours? I can't even stand an hour or two without any breaks.

Bullsh*t ending.

He gets to play video games, get supported by his mom, have a hot 'special friend' with no strings attached, go to a 42-day wilderness camp, and come back to play video games.

What a life.

I should get that a gaming system and Shinobi or whatever that game is called.

This entire video is retarded.

"He still plays video games." What a joke.

It's one thing to learn how to manage your hobby, it's another to have a group of people forcing you to give it up entirely. Is his criteria for success not playing video games ever again? If so - that's a shitty family.

I like the completely disconnected, so-called professional "interventionist" who clearly has no clue what he's talking about and is using generic talking points that he believes work to describe any ritualistic behaviour he's hired to intervene in. Nice going gramps, but leave the "game addiction" to someone who knows what they're talking about.

Also, and this is a highly personal opinion, using the word addiction to describe any and all repetetive and/or ritualistic behaviour does real addiction a disservice. It tries to validate obsessive living patterns as being on the same level of gravity as physical addiction, and in doing so detract from the gravity of real addictions.

Agreed.

I'm addicted to going home at night and laying around in a bed all night for 9 hours straight at a time. I should go spend 43 days in the wilderness.

That old man lost me when he said that people who are addicted to "videos" cannot not distinguish a game from reality. What a bunch of crap.

I do not believe this is real.

This cannot be how interventions are handled, at least not by actual therapists. Using emotional blackmail to force the acceptance of some guy's treatment plan? Give. me. a. break.

You should watch Intervention more if you think this is all bullshit. It doesn't strike me as odd at all that he didn't work his problem out in 42 days. Sounded like he had some issues that went way deeper than gaming.

I'm sure it's real, but it's more an inside view on what a fubar family is like and a kid that grew up getting more emotional involvement and interaction in video games then from his actual family. His mom needs to help the guy grow up and get a life. Don't just support him and give him everything he wants and then cry because all he cares about are his games. Make him get a job or go to college, and learn some social skills. He's clearly a bright kid and he could do well and he'd learn theres more to life. The hot girl 'friend' who is constantly playing games but clearly has no intention on ever getting together with him, isn't helping.

Also I agree with some above that calling obsessive behavior like video game playing an addiction does a disservice to actual addictions, chemical addictions. This kid is simply obsessed since childhood. Something tells me he was raised more by playing games then by any sort of adult figure.

I am a game lover and have been since I was a child (when video games first became big with the atari.) I've been playing games for years and I never stopped and to this day I am very eager about new games coming out that I'm looking forward to. But I also am married and have a daughter and a healthy social life. I play games nearly every day, but it's half an hour or an hour at a time and more on the weekends.

This kid needs to be forced to grow up and learn that you can love video games and lead a healthy and enjoyable life.


Loved the Max Payne shtick though.

I think that a mental addiction is just as real as a physical addiction and in a sense they are both the same. While a physical addiction affects the mind, a mental addiction affects it as well but perhaps without the physically disabling side effects. The video game addiction is clearly due to the break-up of the family as witnessed by the attempted suicide, this is just a different form of escape.
Oh yeah, the old man's schtick sounds like bullshit to me as well...

What a slap in the face from all his friends and family. I would have shoved their ultimatum up their asses and the last they would have ever seen of me would have been my middle finger as I walked out the door.

I think the funniest part is the fact that he thinks he still has a chance with the girl. He's going to have a lot of lonely nights ahead of him...

dammit i thought this would be funny.

Guy seems like a melodramatic douche, but for his mom to abandon her child for the sake of her career... that's got to put a kink in your emotional development.

This video reeks of know-nothing outsiders who don't seem to know anything about video games or video game addiction.

The problem is that he felt left alone and unloved/unwanted by his mother when she left for school again. And then a few years later she says "YOU have a problem and YOU have to leave us for 42 days".

Yeah right, as if that would help him. Might have made things even worse, actually.