万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-06-30&07-01, 让人沉迷的虚拟世界
时间：2007-08-09 06:27:42
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It all started out as a simple, you know, Nintendo NES system. Derek Chambers1. Super Nintendo 64, Nintendo, 20 years old, Playstation, PS2, and a self-confessed addict2.
It started out for that half hour and then it got worse and worse to the point where it became my new life, I had another life. And…
How many hours a day were you doing it?
Eight to plus, that 8, anyway, from 8 to 14 hours a day.
All those hours spent in the virtual world of a game called "World of Warcraft", a game of intrigue3, guile4 and frequent violence linked via the internet to millions of other players across the globe. Many of them just casual players, but at a clinic in Amsterdam that normally deals with drug addicts5 and alcoholics7, they have been seeing more and more people who become addicted8 to gaming.
Well, concerning that they have almost every system.
Derek has been here for 6 weeks and still has a way to go.
I can't ever play.
You are telling you must now… what we think we wanna hear.
Keith Bakker is a transplant to the American and former addict who runs the clinic. I'm sure of a simple guy and I mean if it looks like a dog, if it barks like a dog, and it wags tail like a dog, it's probably a dog, and gaming addiction9 shows all of the same symptoms, all of the same progression. And I think even worse, the consequence is even worse from gaming addiction.
The addicted show some of the same changes in brain chemistry that a drag addict shows. Their family or work or school lives can fall apart. They turn inward. Their life becomes all about getting their next gaming fix. A special committee of the American Medical Association has now recognized gaming addiction and recommends it be treated like any other type.
I just could not stop. And I mean I wasn't even taking care of my own health, I, just a Snickers bar for, for lunch, or dinner or breakfast.
At some point getting into these games moves from diversion to obsession10 to addiction. This is the world of World of Warcraft, and to the truly hooked, this becomes their real world, these become their real friends. They don't just play here, they live here.
So we, you know, identify with you.
The therapy being pioneered here involves "going cold turkey" and dealing11 with the life problems that produce the game problems. But there's another difficulty. The drug dependant12 can learn to stay away from drugs and the alcoholic6 can stay out of bars. But sooner or later, every body is going to have to use a computer.
Somebody used to hook on computer, or to hook on gaming, as you see that there is nothing wrong with the computer. But we have to help them get to the point where they don't find it necessary to, to, to go over to their dealer13. And that's as quick as they, they, you know, just one-hand movement, and they are, and they are in the crack house.
The manufacturer denies its game is deliberately14 addictive15. But to some, that is exactly what it's become.
How scary is it to give up a game for you?
It's pretty scary.
You're terrified?
Yeah.
Mark Phillips, CBS news Amsterdam
------------------------------------------------------Nintendo: 任天堂（日本游戏机公司）
NES: Nintendo Entertainment System
fix: A dose of a narcotic16 drug to which one is addicted ((吸毒者的)自我所需毒品注射量，此指gaming addiction.)
cold turkey: Immediate17, complete withdrawal18 from something on which one has become dependent, such as an addictive drug and here refers to addictive gaming.
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