Italian teen is diagnosed with “PlayStation Addiction” by politician

It seems the US may not be the only country with anti-video game crusaders.

Ananova reports that a 13-year-old Italian boy has been diagnosed with “PlayStation Addiction.” Curiously, the diagnosis did not come from the doctors at the hospital who treated the boy but by a local Italian politician named Antonio Buccoliero (a Regional Councilor of Puglia, Italy). According to Ananova, Buccoliero said, “They eventually managed to take care of him once they understood that this was a strange kind of mental detachment connected to his Playstation.”

That “mental detachment” was thought to be a stroke or severe brain disorder at first when…