Internet dependence is very similar to drug addiction. It develops gradually, gradually. About what steps a network addict is held, read in this article.
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Doctors of developed countries sound alarm. Young people have more and more time at the computer, preferring the Virtual World of Real. Western psychiatrists even invented a special term «Internet addiction», However, most Russian doctors about this dangerous disease and did not hear.
Term «Internet addiction» First was offered to the American doctor Goldberg, seven years ago. Under the Internet addiction, he understood an insurmountable attraction to the use of the Internet, characterized by «disastrous impact on everyday, educational, social, working, family, financial sector activity». According to the degree of care from reality, Internet dependence is very strongly resembles a similar craving for drugs, alcohol, gambling.
According to studies of American scientists, 6-8% of Internet users already have this pathology, because many use it not only for work or study, but also conduct extensive correspondence, use sites intended for entertainment, sex online. As a result, a normal dialogue with other people is replaced by surrogate communication on the network.
How does Internet addiction develop
Interestingly, even the stage of formation of Internet-dependence is similar to stages «binding» to drugs. Doctors specialized clinics have already been convinced of this on the example of their patients, most of which are young people who are treated from Internet addiction in the insistence of parents. Know how «broke» At the internet adherents? Like Narkomanov! This is a terrible sight. And after treatment, patients necessarily need rehabilitation and resocialization.
PHRASE.Com.UA with reference to «New news» argues that there is a congenital predisposition to network dependence. Of course, the child does not torment the computer in the womb. However, such character traits such as secrecy, closedness, physical impression, have both social and genetic character. As a rule, a cyber-dependent person is the wounded introvert, suffering from phobias, self-satisfaction and due to the search for safe communication. The main attractive feature of friendship with a computer - it allows you to instantly escape from reality, from emotional problems, even from serious everyday difficulties (abundance of work, difficulties in study, sudden unemployment, family troubles). All dependent distinguishes the split personality. Can say everyone has a virtual double. And everyone suffers defeats in the real world.
In the first stage, this is a more or less easily redundant disorder. There is a passion «New toy» to the detriment of classes, homemade. Gradually, a person is distinguished from relatives and friends, leaving the priority for «World Wide Web». As a rule, the user hides from relatives (or employees in the office), how much time he spends on the sites.
In the second stage, the symptoms are growing like a snowball. If a person is forcibly to overcome from the network, he will experience a feeling similar to the flour drug addict, who did not give another dose. The user has a violated attention, the performance decreases, he appears obsessive thoughts, insomnia, up to complete removal from sleep, dramatically increases the thrust to such «swinging means», like coffee, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, drugs, and sometimes «on the needle» Sit and those who never tried in the life of drugs. Therefore, we can assume that in some cases a narcotic dependence is a consequence of enthusiastic communication on the network. Headaches are added to mental disorders, pressure jumps, turning into the eyes, lubricants in the bones.
Third Stage - Social Dezadaption. User, no longer getting pleasure from communication via the Internet, still constantly «hangit» On sites. The state of depression leads to serious conflicts at work and in the family. Strong, volitional personalities can still try to switch their attention to something other, for example, fall in love, find another job. Weaker nothing remains, except to seek help from specialists.
In the treatment of Internet-dependent, the main thing is to prove to a person that lively communication is more attractive than virtual. Pull out a person from the network, to introduce to other interests - the task is quite solvable. But if you do not deal with the correction of the deep reasons for his behavior, it may well be that in return of the expelled demon will come seven new, more cunning. Escaped from the network can, for example, hit drunkenness, put down «on the needle» or join the totalitarian sect.
In the US, by the way, the Internet addiction is considered the official diagnosis and is treated by psychologists and psychiatrists. In Russia, such assistance programs for Internet-dependent people are still developing.
