Internet addiction, a mental illness! really?
Posted on | September 29, 2009 | No Comments
Yes it is true that people using blackberries or iPhone while having dinner or in other social situations, or even in class is really annoying if not infuriating, but a new Scientific American article suggests that there is actually a debate going on whether or not to include Internet addiction as a mental illness. That’s kind of going overboard, in my opinion.
First of all, you can’t call internet usage an addiction but rather what you do on the internet. Internet just provides a means to indulge in those addictions. For people whose job revolves around the internet are obviously not addicted to it but still may be on it for better part of the day like bloggers.
Secondly, as one of the comments that I really liked states, “Why do we have to separately label different addictions?… Why not just ‘He has a psychological addiction to the internet’, most span from the same things and have the same effect, it’s like making each virus that causes the common cold it’s own category.”
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