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Shin (14), a middle school student in Daegu has been addicted to gaming for years. He stayed up all night in his room playing games. He was always late for school, and his friends teased him, calling a “game otaku(maniac)”. Shin blamed himself for being “someone unnecessary.” Late last year, he was diagnosed with severe depression and tried to be admitted to a psychiatric ward at a university hospital, but there were no vacancies, and he was only admitted this month.

“The 30 closed wards at Severance Hospital, which used to house adult schizophrenia patients, are now filled with teens and 20s,” Shin Yee-jin, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Severance Hospital, said on Jan. 29. “Most of them have become so depressed that they have attempted self-harm and suicide.”

The number of teens and 20s suffering from depression, self-harm and other mental illnesses is on the rise. According to the National Health Insurance Corporation, there were 13,303 psychiatric hospitalizations for teens and 20s in 2017, or 14.6% of all patients. But last year, the number rose to 16,819 (22.2%), an increase of nearly 10 percentage points in five years.

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[-] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 10 months ago

Videogames sometimes are just a way to escape a shitty reality.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Fr, kids doing his best to enjoy life while he still can before he's forced into the workforce, and it's called addiction. Bruh I hate this world so much

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

It's not just the work force. Korea has mandatory military service.

[-] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Anyway military service produce money to the government(ruling people) so still workforce. Who is defending the business from the NKs to take over it then?

I would define workforce as: time spend making money(which indirectly makes more money for someone else) or time spend making direct/indirect just money for someone else(which would include protecting the integrity of someone else actives) AKA slavery.

[-] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I believe they call it addiction cos it is not productive(make money) for the economic system in which we are trapped.

If it avoid someone to sell their workforce and produce stuff then you are officially mentally ill.

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