I'm quite certain this happens to me.. on my Dell XPS laptop. It seems to describe exactly what I've found. My laptop has the specs to run most games, but craps up on simple video and runs everything only at minimum settings, even right out of the box.

I disagree with the third paragraph. I think it's directed not at people who are "literally unable to tear themselves away from the game long enough to go to a therapy session in real life" but at people are simply unwilling to - and I say this from (sort-of) personal experience. A person in this situation, to some extent, likes it, and falling into dangerous lifestyles from force of habit is too easy. I can't imagine them ever wanting to go therapy in real life - but they could humor a person talking to them online (whether on WoW or just an IM client) simply because it doesn't take effort towards something they're already put off by.

Find me someone who plays Tetris just because they enjoy fitting blocks together.