If you send a lot of text messages and lots of emails you may just be diagnosed with Internet Addiction. If you are on the Internet a lot you just may be diagnosed with the Internet Addiction. This is true stuff!
Of course, those of us here on Active Rain know all about the addiction to the Internet. So I guess we will be prime candidates for the new drugs that some company will invent to help us deal with our Internet addiction!
The American Journal of Psychiatry just printed an article that there is such a thing as Internet Addiction. A psychiatrist by the name of Jerald Block said that there are symptoms to this addiction.
The symptoms include needing to buy more and better devices and equipment and experiencing withdrawal symptoms when they are away from the Internet. Ya think?
Oh, but the best part is that he says that 86% of all those people who are addicted to the Internet suffer from other mental illnesses! So I guess that means we are all a bunch of loony tunes here typing away in the Rain! Well, I guess if you enjoy the rain as much as we do, they will come up with a name for that too. After all, only the mentally ill enjoy playing in the Rain! ( I think they might be the normal ones, actually!)
Dr. Block wants to place Internet Addiction in the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which comes out in 2012. Of course, when that happens the insurance companies will then reimburse you for your visits to the weekly couch to deal with your addiction and you will walk away with a prescription drug to help you relieve the pain of staying out of the Rain!
British Psychiatrists say that about 5 to 10% of all Internet users are addicted to the Internet with most of those being men who are highly educated and introverted and middle aged women with home computers.
Choose your addictions wisely!
I say Chocolate and Active Rain are approved addictions and don't need to be medicated!!!!
So What Say You?
Katerina Gasset, CIPS, Realtor ®, Business and Life Coach, Speaker and Author. Reach Katerina at: 561-753-0135
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