The WHO (World Health Organization) could soon consider video game addiction as an official disease. The organization is set to bring up the issue next week and a vote will be done for it.

The vote comes as a number of gamers are facing psychological distress by playing video games on a daily basis.

MRI Scans have pointed out that depression can be attained through video game addiction.

Video games also have the same effect on a kids brain as drug abuse and alcoholism.

In 2018, the World Health Organization decided that they will consider video gaming as “medical disorder” and is part of the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases.

Gaming disordered is described as a “pattern of gaming behavior characterized by impaired control over gaming” by the World Health Organization, in the disorder, gamers give more priority to gaming than other activities that are to be done daily.

The WHO says that gaming can become a disorder a gamer continues to play games or “despite the occurrence of negative consequences”.

After the organization classified it as a disorder, the NHS-funded gaming addiction centre being announced, but children who had the disorder had to wait for treatment from the centre as the facility faced a number of delays.

When extreme gamers were asked about their life, they said that if the centres were open their life would not be “falling apart”.

But, Microsoft says that they are trying to put more control in the hand of the parents of the kids so they could allow their kids to play games for a short period of time.

The International Game Developers Association said that they would rebuke any decision that will classify “gaming” as a disorder.