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It may be the most famous MMORPG inthe world, with over 10 million subscribers to the game, but accordingto a leading psychiatrist in the treatment of online game addiction,some World Of Warcraft users are more ashamed of being addicted to it than online porn.
In a revealing interview printed in Sunday’s Boston Globe,Dr Jerald Block spoke about the rise in internet addiction and some ofthe cases he has had to deal with. In it, he states: “The computergamers tend to be harder to treat. People feel a lot of shame aroundcomputer games. Whereas, it's socially acceptable to have a pornproblem.”
This gameplay world According to the Boston Globe, Block had recently published an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that ‘Internet Addiction’ should become a new diagnostic term.
Furtheron in the interview, Block explains that: “As a society we understandthat porn is something people do, and you can see a psychiatrist andget treated for it. But gaming is hard to describe to anyone else.
“Sothese people can't explain their situation to friends. In fact, it'shard to give you an example of what my clients talk about, becausegaming is enormously complicated.”