Internet-use disorder?

[durabone]

Recalling previous threads regarding addiction to World of Warcraft, this might have seemed inevitable:

_http://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/

I wonder what drugs they'll come up with for it?

 

[Joe]

Online therapy?

 

[Guardian]

Online therapy?

GROANNNNNNN

 

[Buddy]

Recalling previous threads regarding addiction to World of Warcraft, this might have seemed inevitable:

_http://rt.com/news/internet-use-mental-illness-389/

I wonder what drugs they'll come up with for it?

I dunno, but what I wonder is what would happen if the above article was sent to the folks who wrote the "if you're not on facebook you may be a psychopath" article? Maybe if they fight it out, we'd be rid of both? :)

 

[SMM]

Online therapy?

GROANNNNNNN

That doesn't sound too far-fetched.
Am I the only one who thinks it seems self-contradicting that... "Kids are identified as being especially at risk."
Well..they insist on teaching most things via internet :/

 

[Nook]

Online therapy?

Seems like the only option

 

[supriyanoel]

I am online and this IS therapy. However, it is 4:00 A.M., so this may be bordering on a disorder, as I must get up for work, and take the dogs out at 6:00A.M. BUT, I saw this thread and it seemed worth a look as it applied. Allright, got that off my chest and seem tired. Funny how that works.

 

[Jono]

Oh dear, I heard about this story a while ago and it still makes me feel sick:

Similar behavior has also been exhibited by adults: A Korean couple was arrested in 2010 after their infant daughter starved to death while the pair played an online game for hours. The videogame the two were playing involved raising a virtual baby."

From personal experience I can say that it is quite easy to get sucked into an addictive game such as World of Warcraft and shut out the real world for a 'rewarding' fantasy. Some of the people I've known in the past could sure do with some 'Online therapy'!

 

[Explorer]

All terrible jokes aside ( Perceval ;) ) this is a very real thing. I used to be addicted to World of Warcraft. The game is so notorious for it that a lot of people in the internet's gaming community call it World of Warsmack. I ate up my life for about two years. But it isn't just video games, simple internet use can become compulsive, again speaking from personal experience. Even now I can get lost in the net, look at the clock, and realize I've been surfing for hours, burning time that could be used for better things.

However, I think labelling it as a mental illness is a bit much.

 

[Nook]

However, I think labelling it as a mental illness is a bit much.

Exactly. It is 'real' in terms of, yes, people do get like that but then they expect some outside source to 'heal them' when it's a matter of exercising one's will, osit.

I was doing it for years in my teens, not a game, just the internet itself - most of the time, I did play games also -, but when I'm dizzy and messed up every following day and overall all the time, one wonders how many times a person can do this without realizing what they're doing to themselves.. I've been getting better in the last couple of years but it wasn't until I read Lights Out that finally made my decision final about going to bed at 10 every night and waking up when the sun gets up.

Similar behavior has also been exhibited by adults: A Korean couple was arrested in 2010 after their infant daughter starved to death while the pair played an online game for hours. The videogame the two were playing involved raising a virtual baby."

This is just horrible...and it goes to show how out-of-hand this can get if someone doesn't even realize they have a problem!