Dependence on the Internet: the signs, symptoms, treatment

Contents:

• How to recognize a relationship
• Types and forms of computer addiction
• Prevention and Treatment

With the development of information technologies, which in themselves are a boon, a man faced with a new challenge.

It turned out that the Internet, created in order to help and serve as a tool for work or school, and he can enslave the human and tighten up to the brutal depending on the worldwide web.

Many people underestimate the scale of the problem and it is in vain, because even psychologists and doctors have long sounded the alarm. Internet addiction is almost located in the list of mental illnesses and severe form of it be treated along with alcoholism and drug addiction.
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How to recognize a relationship

So how do you understand that Internet addiction is already possessed by you or your household, is there cause for concern? There are some signs by which you can determine whether or not a strong power over man insidious Internet web.

First, the walk across the expanses of the internet you prefer to any other type of recreation and leisure. Often, the time spent at the computer, flies so fast that, waking up, you are surprised to see: instead of the planned 15 minutes have passed for two hours. After connecting to the global network in the house began to ruthlessly accumulate outstanding time business, your performance is significantly decreased. If the Internet is not available, you do not know what to do, there is depression or irritability.

Internet addiction is also evident in the fact that the global network robs you not only a lot of time and money spent on the acquisition of more powerful computer hardware and pay for online purchases.

You take to heart the loss of rankings at various sites, painfully bad score or delete photos from friends in social networks. Constantly pursuing an obsessive desire to check email, look to your favorite forum, or a page on Facebook. If you find yourself above symptoms, it's time to begin the struggle for independence from the Internet.

The man, who is in the final stages of dependence, is no longer able to exist in the real world, outside their cozy little world of virtual. It will not work, take care of yourself, forgetting even to eat. Live chat disappears completely, friends and family overshadowed. A few years ago, America has shaken the case where a woman, fascinated by the computer game, I forgot about their own child - a 3-year-old girl died of hunger and thirst.

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Types and forms of computer addiction

The researchers of this problem are several types of such a relationship, each of which is caused by certain psychological conditions.

The first and most common type - is a constant virtual communication is not time-bound. Man endlessly hangs in numerous social networks, gets hundreds of friends. There is a substitution of real communication and friendship of their virtual counterparts. This Internet addiction, according to psychologists, is developed for those who have problems with socializing in real life. At risk - young people, people with low self-esteem.

The second common relationship - game. Gaining increasing popularity of online multiplayer games, allowing gamers often absent himself even half an hour. Battle, chase, fairy-tale characters are tightened to head in a virtual world that allows you to forget about the problems and troubles. Coming from the dull and heavy work or school, a man rushes to the computer to get into the world of light and pleasant victories and adventures, and falls into a heavy online gaming addiction. At risk - infantile, people with weak character who can not or do not want to overcome the challenges that confronts them with real life.

The third kind of addiction - sexy. It is expressed in the desire to obtain sexual pleasure, without departing from the monitor screen. This Internet addiction manifests itself in constant viewing of porn, and the pursuit of studies in virtual sex. The reason for this is often a dissatisfaction in your partner sexually, or lack thereof. The consequence - the destruction of the family and a complete inability to have a relationship in real life.

Another form of dependence on the global network - information Internet addiction. People exposed to it for hours wandering the vast expanses of the network, moving from one site to another without any need for it. Supercharged, information overfed brain eventually loses the ability to deep thinking and critical analysis.

You can also select Internet addiction to online games for money, in particular addiction to the virtual casino. Not everyone has the opportunity to visit a real casino, but almost everyone can easily surrender to the game on numerous sites, yielding an attractive advertising.

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Prevention and Treatment

Currently, there are clinics that are ready to accept patients who complain of Internet addiction, but, according to doctors who treated only a few. The rest either do not recognize the existence in his addiction, or try to get out of it yourself. In some countries, treatment is carried out very radical methods. Chinese experts, for example, used electric shocks. In Russia, everything is not so bad: as a rule, it is limited to the consultation of psychologists and exercise.

In order for Internet addiction did not take the better of you, give regular respite from the global network.   Turn off the computer on the weekend, read a book, have a picnic in the countryside. Limit time spent on the Internet by using a timer, you can also ask someone from their control you. You should not sit down in front of the monitor when the looming ahead of unfinished business. Make it a rule to go to the network only after the end of the planned work. It is important to detect psychological problems, because of which appeared and Internet addiction, and to understand them. Start the fight today.