{"id":4846,"date":"2012-11-18T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2012-11-19T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:04:50","slug":"internet-use-disorder-is-real-are-you-an-internet-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/internet-use-disorder-is-real-are-you-an-internet-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You an Internet Addict? Beware of Internet-Use Disorder!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you the type of person who spent hours on Internet? If you are, we have some bad news for you. Internet-use disorder<\/strong><\/em> is a real thing now<\/p>\n

Thanks to a group of psychiatrists in Australia, Internet-Use Disorder is now officially accepted as a psychiatric disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. Of course any self-respecting internet\u00a0addict already knows that! For the record \u2018Internet\u00a0Addiction\u00a0Disorder\u2019 started way back in 1995 as a satirical hoax.<\/p>\n

So you think you are\u00a0addicted\u00a0to internet?\u00a0Well most probably the answer is no. It\u2019s highly unlikely that many of us fit the description of this disorder. Wasting hours on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0does not make you an internet\u00a0addict. If it did around 900 Million people around the world will have a new reason to start therapy.<\/p>\n

Internet-Use\u00a0disorder<\/strong> has many of the basic symptoms of any other\u00a0addiction. According to the American Psychiatric Association, a person having Internet use disorder will be preoccupied with internet or internet gaming. And they show withdrawal symptoms when the internet is no longer available .Other symptoms include loss of other interests, unsuccessful attempts to quit and using internet to escape depressed mood.<\/p>\n

A research done by a group of Australian psychiatrists in children reveals, those who spend lot of time in online video games have tendency to get nervous or irritated, when their laptops or mobile phones or any other connected devices are taken away from them. However, even in those cases the researchers are not able to define an exact boundary to be declared as internet\u00a0addict. The psychiatrists are in the opinion that more study is needed in this area.<\/p>\n

Australia was one of the first countries to identify the problem and offer public treatment for Internet-Use disorder<\/em>. South Korea already has De-addiction\u00a0centers for children who are\u00a0addicted\u00a0to video games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith kids, gaming is an obvious issue, but overall, technology use could be a potential problem\u201d Said Professor Mike Kyrios, of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He also stated that fundamentally it\u2019s up to parents to decide whether their kids are showing any withdrawal symptoms, when the internet is taken away from them and also whether it is serious enough to get psychiatric help<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, some people say it is a “creeping medicalization of everyday life”. And any problem of excess can now be portrayed as an individual having a major mental illness.\u00a0So does this mean we are\u00a0addicted\u00a0to being\u00a0addicted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you the type of person who spent hours on Internet? If you are, we have some bad news for you. Internet-use disorder is a real thing now Thanks to a group of psychiatrists in Australia, Internet-Use Disorder is now officially accepted as a psychiatric disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. Of course any self-respecting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[451,101],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-health","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}