Ohio teen collapses from dehydration after 4-day gaming marathon

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Submitted by alkieanon on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 21:39

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Ohio teen collapses from dehydration after 4-day gaming marathon: A Columbus, Ohio, mother has taken away her son’s Xbox after he spent four to five days locked in his bedroom playing a marathon game and collapsed from dehydration, nbc4i.com reported. Jessie Rawlins said her son, Tyler, 15, collapsed three times before she called the paramedics (who hooked him up to IV fluids), and he was brought to a nearby hospital. “I was very scared,” Rawlins said. “I thought he was going to die.”

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/08/ohio-teen-collapses-from-dehydr...

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Wed, 08/08/2012 - 22:02

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 13:30

Coincidentally, I was over at the world-famous Powell's Bookstore yesterday, and found a copy of the DSM-III-R desktop reference to mental disorders. (Which I just had to add to my library.) One of the goofiest of illnesses was nicotine withdrawal. I kid you not. A nicotine fit, caused by sudden cessation of doses of nicotine, caused by not smoking a cigarette, resulting in jittery feelings and anxiety, has it's own mental illness number (which I'd give to you if I had the book with me now).

What I want to see is a psychiatrist billing a health insurance company for treating Mental Disorder 300.0 (or whatever it is), when it's really just a guy wanting a cigarette. That would be a hoot. What do you suppose it costs for a psychiatrist to treat a nicotine fit?