The trend in my blog posts seems to be technological addictions- Obsessive use of mobile phones and the internet, Social networking programs, cyber pornography and bizarre online behaviour.
It seems this obsession with technology has been widely recognised and often described as an ‘impulsive-control problem’. Net addiction.com is an internet addiction recovery centre, where Dr. Kimberly Young has developed specific criteria to diagnose internet addiction in particular. Users can follow the criteria and if they recognise the criteria reflects their internet patterns they can further follow the prompts to treatment services and recovery resources.
I find it quite ironic that this site seems to be treating internet addicts via the internet... Should Alcohol addicts be treated by pub crawls? I understand that maybe information on internet and other technological addictions should be available on the internet and via other such technologies but should we really be treating these addicts via sources they are already addicted to?
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