Dutch Game Addiction Clinic Overwhelmed!

NOT THAT LONG AGO I wrote an small piece on how a Dutch gaming addiction clinic was opening it’s doors to treat Europeans for all kinds of gaming addictions. Well, this latest report suggests the buggers are actually overwhelmed with business since they opened, and in particular cites the cries of help from worried parents about their wayward gaming offspring who might just love their joysticks a little too much.

I have to be honest here… it still sounds like a whole load of horseshit to me, but then I suppose there are always those kinds of people who just can’t seem to get themselves sorted, and need someone else to point them at the blindingly obvious conclusions. It seems to me that people these days just have it far too easy and half their ‘problems’ are just silly. I mean come on, sex addiction anyone?

Anyhoo - back to the joystick lovers. The clinic seems to have a range of unusual treatments to help ‘cure’ gamers, including parachuting, meditation, fitness training and group therapy. At least it sounds better than the Chinese approach to curing errant gamers, particularly as it doesn’t involve wiring up your genitals.

So - if you’re worried that you might be a gaming addict, or if you think your [insert appropriate title] might be addicted to gaming, why not contact these good folks over in Amsterdamn who will be only too happy to take some money off you and do all kinds of funky things to ‘cure’ those poor unfortunates who just don’t know when to quit?

And sure - if it doesn’t work first time around, send ‘em back again and again until it does, or until you run out of money. Addictive behaviour anyone? Feeling cured yet?

Thought so.