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i would hardly call it social interaction if your shooting them 
, but it could be considered a necssary need for violent interaction 
, but it could be considered a necssary need for violent interaction
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Depends - if you are screaming at them at the same - it counts as a interaction of a social nature surely?Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
i would hardly call it social interaction if your shooting them
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Well if you and the n00wb you are currently pwnz0ring are in the same room I'd say it still qualifies, but I think it would mess with someone developmentally if their only human contact was through XBOX Live.Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
i would hardly call it social interaction if your shooting them
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My depression cuts into my videogaming time, does that count?Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Psychiatrist? According to my previous GP, I pretty much need to try and kill myself to get to meet a psychiatrist.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Or pony the co-pay to schedule an erroneous appointment with one. Just whip out a copy of the DSM IV, pick a disorder, and quote the symptoms. Probably include a story or something too, arguments from pathos go a long way with those types.Comment
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90% of all shrinks are pill-pushers. trust me. they will gladly diagnose you with anything just to get a buck. then they will force you to take ridiculous amounts of pills (to get even more bucks) and not care if you are destroying your brain. then the side effects of your "medication" end up being worse than the original "symptoms" you supposedly had. so what do the shrinks then do to solve this problem?
they raise your dosage. ****ing bastards.
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Co-pay?Originally posted by bipolarbear
Or pony the co-pay to schedule an erroneous appointment with one. Just whip out a copy of the DSM IV, pick a disorder, and quote the symptoms. Probably include a story or something too, arguments from pathos go a long way with those types.
As for pill-pushing, I'm tired to death of hearing that line. My doc doesn't get a ****ing cent from pills she prescribes.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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seems like shes hooked you pretty good then
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Well that's not always the case for depression. They have to determine the source of it. Endogenous, or Exogenous. If it's endogenous, then there are soem forms of talk therapy which work, but by and large the biological theory is the one which is currently winning out and getting lots of funding. It's also the most effective.Originally posted by AAHZ
90% of all shrinks are pill-pushers. trust me. they will gladly diagnose you with anything just to get a buck. then they will force you to take ridiculous amounts of pills (to get even more bucks) and not care if you are destroying your brain. then the side effects of your "medication" end up being worse than the original "symptoms" you supposedly had. so what do the shrinks then do to solve this problem?
they raise your dosage. ****ing bastards.
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Truly, a question I have frequently wondered about many of the posters on Poly...
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I think it's all about being able to support yourself. If I want to play WoW for all my life and nothing else, what's wrong with that? IF I can support myself, that is I don't have to use support in order for me to just play this game... what's wrong with this picture? Nothing really.
How is virtual reality any worse than 'real reality'. How is the other one any less real? I mean, we do consider the internet pretty real as well these days.
It's a joke and often taken as 'the truth' and the way it should be, when people say well, if it hurts your private life, then it's a problem. Well, if that IS your private life, then how is it hurting anything? If you are able to function and get your own damn money, I'm not going to tell you what to do with it. I'm not going to tell you waht to do with your life even if you recieved support. Like playing games? Play games then.
Like I said, flipping burger requires social skills. So what? Yeah, you need that in all jobs pretty much, but content usually still rules over anything else, besides, most people I see at the job have 0 social skills, just 0. They don't even say Hi to you, not because they don't like you, but because they are so akward about it. Yet, they're researchers, professors, all kinds of people. But I guess these jobs didn't count, only McJobs count, right?
Sloww, I agree with you. And I don't piss off these people anyway, why would I? By default anyway, they're doing a job that's not the most appreciated one, it doesn't pay very well and yet there's certain demands all the time. Why would I think they're doing a less of a job? I don't think that. I don't put a value to a job in that way, one of the workers I respect the most is the cleaner at our department. Of course she's pretty hot too 
It's those jobs that require certain skills, perhaps unappreciated ones but skills none of the less, and let's just not appreciate them and see them gone and see how long it takes until we truly want them back. A week? It wouldnt' take very long for the appreciation to kick in.
But if I catch a burger punk spitting in my food, I'll kill that ****er.In da butt.
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What does this question mean in the OP? Are we polytubbies or not?
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I think gaming can be an obsession, not an addiction. Some people might need help with that. So I think it should be covered by insurance.
As far as kids go. God damn, some people need to be better parents if they are letting their kids play games instead of socializing and studying.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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