Tag: mental disorder

Limited physical contacts, new ways of socialization, online learning, fear, and uncertainty about the future... These are some of the challenges that the young people have faced during the global COVID-19 crisis. For some, it meant more time for themselves, but for others, it meant difficult everyday life. Individually, each of the young people accepted the world health crisis...

The World Health Organization (WHO) released the latest edition of its International Compendium of Diseases, adding “gaming disorder” and “hazardous gaming” to the updated version. According to WHO's definition, the disorder is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour (‘digital gaming’ or ‘video-gaming’), which may be online (i.e., over the internet) or offline, manifested by "impaired control...