• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    So how many hours of TF2 can you play a day before doctors will diagnose you with an addiction? Four, eight, sixteen?

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      7 hours ago

      I’m sorry but did you even read my comment? As in the part where I explain there are multiple criterias that define an addiction?

      But to take the numbers mentioned in the Post, yes, 16 hours of instagram use are an extremely strong indication of an addiction. If more criteria are fulfilled then it will definetely be diagnosed as an addiction.

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        7 hours ago

        Yes I read your comment. So if a man is compelled to murder two hobos a month and can’t break the habit, that would not be a strong indication of an addiction?

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          6 hours ago

          I mean I know you asked this as a kind of gotcha, but yes psychologists have long argued that seriel killing can be classified as a behavioral addiction. Ted Bundy himself said he felt addicted to killing.