Internet Addiction Can Make You Sick

This morning i was going through a news article on Rediff.com and was quite surprised. Its about internet addiction in the global arena. I can really sense myself into this lest i make some revival among my lifestyle or very soon i would land up in an addiction center, lol!

If you are an internet addict, it is high time you visit a psychiatrist.

Addiction to online gaming, e-mailing, chatting and viewing porn can lead to mental health problems and therefore should be officially recognised as a ‘clinical disorder’, according to a prominent American psychiatrist.

Dr Jerald Block from Oregon Health & Science University claims too many hours spent on internet can cause a compulsive-impulsive disorder.

“The addicts exhaust emotions that they could experience in the real world on the computer through any number of mechanisms: emailing, gaming, porn,” Dr Block said.

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