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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue_Kryptonite" data-source="post: 2721237" data-attributes="member: 10949">Not a mental illness? I'll be sure to tell my dad, who's on military disability for his government-classified mental Illness of Alcohol Addiction. He isn't treated for PTSD after Viet Nam, he's treated for alcoholism. Under the Mental Illness category.I also refer you <a href="http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/mntldsrdr.htm" target="_blank">here</a>, which has references to the sections in the DSM IV listing addictions as psychological disorders. I've been mentally ill... Brain Chemistry imbalance. I'm marginalizing myself. Along with a lot of friends I have in the community who also find it a good way to cope.How do we test? I'll ask my nephew. He was recently diagnosed with an addictive personality that was causing him to become neo-autistic when in the presence of video games or TV or hyperstimulated media. I should make sure to tell the school district that you can't test for that kind of thing. They'll be happy to save the money on pre-printed special materials that are available for something you can't test for.Sarcasm aside, the following remains my opinion: You should watch children for autistic signs during immersive solo activities. This was done when I was in the lower grades in the 1970s. I was referred to a psychologist then. If a person proves to have obsessive anti-social triggers associated with any of the following or more: Video Games, Soap Operas, Violent Movies, Petting Ferrets, Romance Novels, Building and Running Model Trains, et cetera... They should at that point either no longer be permitted access to that stimulus, or be made aware that they will never have a normal relationship until and unless they avoid same. I hope this has clarified matters for the humor-deprived, self-absorbed, overly sensitive, and terminally politically correct individuals who may or may not have understood my viewpoint and tone.</blockquote>

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