I Saw a Center for Internet Addiction Recovery. Are We Addicted to Internet?

just a way of making money !!

Internet Addiction! Let’s develop some new drugs and medical specialties…more bucks for the doctor and the drug companies and more room for people to sit around calling themselves victims. I’ll bet a lot more people are “addicted” to watching TV 10 hours a day than they are to the Internet, so where’s the drug for that? This is just a tactic to make more money for the medical establishment. Some doctors have opened private clinics and claim they can cure internet addiction. They developed weird tests, like some survey questions to measure levels of your internet addiction and diagnose your problem. This is a load of crap and anyone who believes in such things is obviously mentally weak. It’s sad that people have to make up a “mental disorder” to account for their lack of self control. I’m not addicted to using the internet but the fact of matter is there’s a difference between an addiction and compulsive behavior. when am at work and there is nothing going on or at home and am bored, the best thing that I can do is logging and chat or discover new things or watch a movie or shop online , I don’t call it addiction.

Let me try to explain what I think addictions mean. This is a being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. Even if we say it’s an addiction, it will never be far worse then any addiction to drugs, alcohol or cigarettes because the use of technology is something that is acceptable in our society, because technology is easily attainable in here USA. Can we say Obama and John McCain are addicted to politics? Are we addicted to fast foods or gas? Many people feel depressed sometime when they can’t get on the comp. it’s like another world that a lot of us go to escape. I found out people like to spend many hours to check eBay, Craiglist, playing online, chatting, yahoo answers or whatever. That’s what you like to do.

Doctors who claim this term, “addiction” can be applied to any number of problematic behaviors Interactive gaming compulsion, Net compulsion, Cyber sexual addiction and many more. One of the funniest medical terms I ever heard was Internet addiction disorder (IAD) Let the drug companies produce “cybernol” for internet addicts…

If your internet usage is taking its toll on your body and your health or causing a lot of problems in your life, your love or marriage relationships, you should try to minimize using it.

Although it seems bad right now, you definitely can get better. I used to
spend entire days online, too, but I was able to get over it using a type
of therapy called Exposure & Response Prevention. You can stop. It is
definitely tough, but it is possible and life is so much better on the
other side. Find a therapist who specializes in ERP or find a book that
will help you do ERP for Internet addiction. Keep pushing!

Thanks! I hope it’s useful in starting to build a healthy relationship with
the Internet.

Excellent simple and straight forward explanation. Very Good and it helped
me a lot on my research. Keep it up man! – BTW I completely agree on your
point on being proactive and stop being crazy to be diagnose with the IAD.

3:40 it looks absolutely discusting

I think I have this disorder…its interfering with my social and personal
life… 🙁 All my friends hate me now because I would rather stay at home
and spent time on my laptop than spent time with them…..I would spent my
entire day, 24 hours on the the internet everyday……..is there a way to
help me or am I like this forever…Its just that, I so tempted to know
what are the updates on facebook,youtube,etc…and watching tv shows,
playing video games,etc…and I can’t stop…. ;-[

good stuff, mark wish more ppl know about this