Excessive video gaming could become an official disorder

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

so if he can stop himself but just doesn't feel like doing so it isn't an addiction, he's just lazy.

How do we tell whether somebody is capable of stopping themselves until they actually do it?

It suppose that's a tricky thing about diagnosing an addiction. I don't know of any cases in which a person's body negatively reacted to an absence of video games, but if that were to happen then I think that could help determine an addiction as a person's body is more objective than a person's mind. I don't know a lot about diagnosing addictions aside from what I said before, but it does seem like a very interesting subject to learn about.