Spotting kids drowning in video games

THE NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION released an expert consensus on curbing and treating gaming disorder, which repeated the World Health Organization's decision this May to list it as a new disease. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

According to the WHO's definition, gaming disorder is the uncontrollable and persistent playing of video and computer games. Under the WHO definition, gaming disorder is a pattern of behaviour characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that it takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and the continuation or escalation of the pattern despite negative consequences.

When someone becomes "drowned" in video games, as the Chinese describe it, he/she can give up almost everything else, including sleeping, eating and drinking.