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 Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:55 am
[ neutral TL;DR article posted.
"Internet addiction should be considered a true mental illness, according to a recent editorial published in the prestigious American Journal of Psychiatry. Jerald Block MD says excessive online gaming, porn surfing along with e-mail and text messaging are signs of mental collapse and “merit inclusion” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V).
Block pointed to ten deaths in South Korean Internet cafes as sure signs of addiction. He adds that the average high school student in South Korea plays online games 23 hours a week and that more than 210,000 children required treatment for excessive gaming and Internet usage in 2006. Chinese figures show that 13.7% of teenagers are addicted to the Internet, according to Block."
Sauce found here and full here.
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:41 am
*applause*
That's very nice. If you feel the insane need to do something it's called an addiction, not being mentally ill. neutral Surfing the net eats pretty humongous bits of my life each day, so should I go see a doctor now?
Booyah.
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Sorry for ranting. I'm just pissed.
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:12 pm
Well i heard someone died from playing on an online battle game, but that was only because he freezed to death. i don't suppose you can call that a disorder can you?
Hm. i never thought to call it a mental disorder, but is it really? Being bulimic or anorexic is consider an eating disorder, so with people going on the computer excessively be called a disorder too? it does sound a bit odd to me, but i guess you have to take everything else into context.
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:16 pm
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