Right, that's is... i'm suing JimRob cause he knew i'd get addicted to FR or he shoulda known i'd get addicted to FR and now i got carpel tunnel syndrome and and and GAAAAAAA!!!!! I WANT 10 MILLION DOLLARS!!! WAAAAAAAA
Posted on 08/19/2007 3:30:41 PM PDT by freedom44
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Internet addiction should be grouped with extreme addictive disorders such as gambling, sex addiction and kleptomania, an Israeli psychiatrist said.
Dr. Pinhas Dannon of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine said 10 percent of Internet surfers are afflicted with "Internet addiction disorder," which can lead to anxiety and severe depression.
Internet addiction is classified by mental health professionals as an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mild to severe mental health condition that results in an urge to engage in ritualistic thoughts and behavior.
"Internet addiction is not manifesting itself as an ‘urge.’ It’s more than that. It’s a deep ‘craving.’ And if we don’t make the change in the way we classify Internet addiction, we won’t be able to treat it in the proper way," Dannon said Friday in a release.
He said the two groups at greatest risk from Internet addiction disorder are teenagers and people in their mid-50s suffering from the loneliness of an empty nest.
I can quit any time I want to, I just don’t want to.
LOL - I am neither, and I was left out of the article. Oh, the shame.... LOL
Idiotic.
My dh says I’m addicted because I don’t watch TV with him for 5 hours every night. LOL But I do sit next to him on the couch while I type.
If you’ve caught yourself indulging in the “morning post” or the “three blog lunch” you’re in bad shape and need serious rehab.
Beat me too it haha
“...grouped with extreme addictive disorders such as gambling, sex addiction and kleptomania,..”
I have to agree. They should all be grouped together, under the heading of modern psychobabble idiocy disorders. The treatment is to stop doing it.
Cancer, diabetes, AIDS, etc, are diagnosable disorders. Gambling and internet overuse are behaviors, not illnesses.
I often wonder if God is laughing at us, or crying over us, when this idiocy becomes the accepted norm.
huh? Where's addition it that diagnosis? So I wash my hand constantly....What's the big deal....my hands are clean.
I don’t get it. What’s wrong with hanging out with Big Brother all the time???
Do they have a web page?
Difference is that watching TV pretty much requires ZERO thought...
Right, that's is... i'm suing JimRob cause he knew i'd get addicted to FR or he shoulda known i'd get addicted to FR and now i got carpel tunnel syndrome and and and GAAAAAAA!!!!! I WANT 10 MILLION DOLLARS!!! WAAAAAAAA
I was diagnosed with CDO, which is sort of like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but the letters are arranged in the correct order. Neat and orderly, alphabetic, proper.
And I post here all the time.
TV.....YUCK...!
I’m hooked on the internet, and FR is ‘the good stuff’.
Class action suit! (Admin mod, just kidding)
Uh-oh...
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