{"id":10605,"date":"2011-03-11T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"friday-fanatics-edition-uk-therapist-calls-gaming-the-silent-killer-of-our-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10605-friday-fanatics-edition-uk-therapist-calls-gaming-the-silent-killer-of-our-generation","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fanatics Edition: UK therapist calls gaming \u201cthe silent killer of our generation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this week, we&rsquo;re looking at you, Steve Pope.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with BBC Radio 5Live (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/43423\/Two-hours-gaming-a-line-of-cocaine\" target=\"_blank\">MCVUK<\/a>), the Lancashire, UK-based therapist claimed that, &ldquo;Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces in the brain. It&#8217;s the silent killer of our generation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The silent killer. He&rsquo;s not done with &ldquo;game station&rdquo;, though.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;re now onto second generation game station [Lol &ndash; Ed] players who have always grown up with it. Computer game addiction can also spiral into violence as after playing violent games, they may turn their fantasy games into reality,&rdquo; he explained. &#8220;It is the fastest growing addiction in the country and this is affecting young people mentally and physically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh come on, Steve. You can&rsquo;t even seem to pick a proper side in the PC vs console war here. How is anybody supposed to take you seriously? Try harder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11615-Games-the-silent-killer-of-this-generation?p=381553#post381553\" target=\"_self\">Are games the silent killer of our generation?<\/a> &lt;&lt; Share your views in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derpderpderp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}