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Boy Rushed to Hospital with Playstation Addiction

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Italian medics diagnosed a 13-year-old boy with Playstation addiction after his desperate father rushed him to hospital.

At first doctors at southern Italy's Lecce hospital thought Lorenzo Amato was suffering from a stroke or a severe brain disorder.

The teenager couldn't speak and didn't seem to understand anything going on around him. Then doctors discovered he'd just finished a marathon session on his new Playstation.
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Published: 394 days 22 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Industry News
 
 

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Fishy Fingers - 394 days 22 hours ago
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Way to start the thread with a little maturity :/
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AngryHippo - 394 days 22 hours ago
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1.2 - lol....
....a bit of a flamebait comment, but it made me chuckle.
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P4KY B - 394 days 22 hours ago
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1.3 - hey Fishy
None of us are really that mature if we spend half our working day commenting on a gaming site.

But I wonder what game he was playing.
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AAACE5 - 394 days 21 hours ago
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1.4 - 13 years old rushed to hospital with Playstation addiction???
His father should have sat down and had a talk with him by that age! He should have explained the birds and the bees a bit more clearly, and explained to him that sex is between people! Not human and console...JK...LOL!
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Marceles - 394 days 21 hours ago
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"Sounds just like every other Sony fan."

Sounds just like every other fan. There...it's edited :P
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Jamegohanssj5 - 394 days 22 hours ago
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The awesomeness of the Playstation does that to you. I have been gaming with Sony for 12 years and it still does this to me lol!.

TGSI
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Rock Bottom - 394 days 20 hours ago
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I would have said that's how awesome PS is, but we all know kids are just retarded like that these days.
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Sparx_4_4_ - 394 days 22 hours ago
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sounds like bs why would he throw it away if he was addicted
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Steven Colbert - 394 days 21 hours ago
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I bet he was playing FIFA or PES like all other Italians right now
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AllroundGamer - 394 days 21 hours ago
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they need to press the Select button, so he can see his Mission Objectives ;) therefor he didn't seem to understand anything going on around him...
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timmyrulz - 394 days 21 hours ago
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I heard about this, apparentley he has a seizure as he was watching the specrum lines when installing DMC4, the doctors said that a 20 minute dose of the lines and the screeching noise could have knocked out an elephant :)
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Arsenal4Ever - 394 days 21 hours ago
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This is weird. Maybe he played it for 100 hours straight.

Oh well.. at least it doesn't burn houses down.. and it doesn't get pinned to a tree either.

^-^
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gamfreak - 394 days 21 hours ago
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9 - wtf....
Hope the boy is ok now...
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Firstkn1ghT - 394 days 20 hours ago
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Nasim FTW
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JOLLY1 - 394 days 20 hours ago
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10.1 - YOU meanine!!!!!!!
I was totally going to write "I sure hope nasim is okay"
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edhe - 394 days 19 hours ago
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Replace 'playstation addiction' with dehydration, exhaustion and hunger.

Because otherwise we'll all get 'studying for finals addiction' or 'throwing up all day from a virus addiction..'
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andron666 - 394 days 12 hours ago
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11.1 - I absolutely agree...
The whole article is just sensationalism anyway.

But it's staggering that people haven't learned this lesson yet. I mean you hear about koreans who die after online marathon sessions, and still people don't take 15 min pause now and then...
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Asurastrike - 394 days 10 hours ago
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I've played my PS2 for 16 hours straight before (Final Fantasy X when I was 11) and I turned out alright. :P
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