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1 posted on 08/19/2007 3:30:44 PM PDT by freedom44
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I can quit any time I want to, I just don’t want to.


2 posted on 08/19/2007 3:35:03 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
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teenagers and people in their mid-50s suffering from the loneliness of an empty nest.

LOL - I am neither, and I was left out of the article. Oh, the shame.... LOL

3 posted on 08/19/2007 3:37:07 PM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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Idiotic.


4 posted on 08/19/2007 3:38:24 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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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.


5 posted on 08/19/2007 3:38:33 PM PDT by TNdandelion
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“...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.


8 posted on 08/19/2007 3:45:33 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

huh? Where's addition it that diagnosis? So I wash my hand constantly....What's the big deal....my hands are clean.

9 posted on 08/19/2007 3:47:33 PM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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Do they have a web page?


12 posted on 08/19/2007 4:35:11 PM PDT by dr_lew
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I see dumb people on line for disability benefits.
14 posted on 08/19/2007 5:21:18 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com 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
15 posted on 08/19/2007 5:30:32 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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I think this has a ring of truth.

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.

16 posted on 08/19/2007 6:19:20 PM PDT by DBrow
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LEMME GUESS...! The internet addiction can be remedied by watching CNN...?! And Seinfeld, etc...

TV.....YUCK...!

17 posted on 08/19/2007 7:15:19 PM PDT by gaijin
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I’m hooked on the internet, and FR is ‘the good stuff’.


18 posted on 08/19/2007 7:16:48 PM PDT by KoRn (Just Say NO ....To Liberal Republicans - FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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It’s got to be more sane than staring at a TV screen. At least on the internet you can be actively involved with what you are watching.
22 posted on 08/19/2007 7:37:37 PM PDT by Perchant
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Distinguished Scientist Objects To "Radio Addiction"

Radio addiction should be grouped with extreme addictive disorders such as gambling, sex addiction and kleptomania, a prominent psychiatrist said.

Dr. Elmer Feelgood, Professor of Phrenology at Possum Holler University's East Jesus Springs Campus said 10 percent of listeners to the newfangled "wireless telegraph" are afflicted with "radio addiction disorder," which can lead to anxiety and severe depression.

Radio addiction is classified by mental health professionals as a Humorous Bile Disorder, a mild to severe mental health condition that results in an urge to engage in ritualistic thoughts and behavior, physical self-abuse, and white girls openly dancing with Negroes.

"Radio 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 radio addiction, we won’t be able to treat it in the proper way," Feelgood said Friday in a release to reporters in snap-brim Fedora hats.

He said the two groups at greatest risk from radio addiction disorder are raccoon-coat-wearing, rumble-seat-riding teenagers and excitable immigrants from the dago countries.

"We must stamp out radio addiction." Feelgood asserted. "I intend to petition President Coolidge and my members of Congress for leadership in legislating the number of hours one may listen to radio daily."

24 posted on 08/19/2007 7:53:14 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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There’s a difference?


26 posted on 08/19/2007 7:55:45 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to ask...why not me?)
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This is awful because it true!


27 posted on 08/19/2007 7:57:25 PM PDT by restornu
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hmmm....
SO

a person who focuses on political sites can have the participation declared a disability and petition for Social Security Disability and post even more at taxpayer expense!

Get paid to use FR.

DUmies are beating down the social security doors.


28 posted on 08/19/2007 7:59:42 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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It’s all about control over the Internet and other people’s lives. Internet addiction is just as phony as porn addiction.


30 posted on 08/19/2007 8:46:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Are they suggesting we all go back to reading newspapers?


31 posted on 08/19/2007 8:46:20 PM PDT by dragnet2
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33 posted on 08/19/2007 8:53:56 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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