Saturday, January 30, 2010

Text messaging and Internet addiction may be a mental illness

Modern life becoming increasingly inseparable from the high-tech, many people are dependent on computers and mobile phones is also growing, but in fact this way of life is not healthy. A few days ago, "American Journal of Psychiatry," published an article called, people SMS and the Internet may be also a kind of over-reliance on mental illness.

This article's author, Gerald Brock (Jerald Block), said Dr, send SMS and Internet-addicted patients are mainly the following four symptoms: When the landing is not on the network will have the time lonely frustration; a strong desire for Upgrade to a higher allocation of equipment; in the use of new equipment, spend more time; experience their addictive behavior brought about negative impact.

Dr. Block said that while sending SMS no direct connection with the Internet, but also part of the information as a form of real-time transmission. He said that his reason for studying this issue, because he noted that there are many motor vehicle accidents is due to people driving the process of sending and receiving SMS caused by means of such real-time transmission of information will cause a lot of trouble.

, Now 21-year-old sales consultant Battaglia said that although her life is inseparable from the network and mobile phone, but she would not classify himself as a kind of online communication addicts. But she can also anticipate that, if allowed to continue to develop the current way of life, then the consequences will be very serious. She said: "Online communication has now become a way of life I have, but I consider themselves not to the extent of addiction." Although she was not sitting in front of the computer all day, but when she came home from work or will it involuntarily the Internet.

Battaglia, said: "I am almost every night and daytime use of computers, Facebook, eBay, ninemsn and some chat sites are the place where I often patronize." In addition Battaglia is also about a day to send 20 mobile phone SMS, she said that if there is no cell phone, she would feel very empty.

Australia Wollongong (Wollongong), Dr罗勃特卡普兰University School of Medicine, said he was back in 1998 when discovered a case of Internet addiction, and since then he noted that the resulting spirit of the Australian nation-wide cases of the disease on the rise.

Australia A local survey in 2007 children in the country spend an average of 1 hour and 17 minutes per day online, 15-year-old to 17-year-olds in the sending cell phone text message, on average, spend 30 minutes a day, and spend an average of 25 minutes play online games.

In this regard, Kaplan said: "Overall, I think this trend is expanding, we are now living in the Internet era, the network will give us much trouble."

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