While technology has so many wonderful benefits, most of which we take for granted, experts are becoming more and more concerned about addiction issues. However, one of the latest concerns with excessive exposure to technology is an overall reshaping of one’s personality. Some experts believe that excessively using technologies that are now such a critical part of our everyday lives can make us more impatient, impulsive, forgetful and narcissistic. “We’re
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Hoarding is the hot topic among addiction reality television shows. A&E has its show, “Hoarders,” and TLC has its version called “Hoarding: Buried Alive ” And while its ratings come due to the car wreck gawking appeal it may bring, hoarding is a very real psychological issue. Hoarding, also referred to as compulsive hoarding and compulsive hoarding syndrome, is so shocking and baffling to most people in the general public.
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Many people speak of Internet Addiction in a very offhand way. However, some preliminary studies that are emerging are showing that between five and 10% of Internet surfers might be classified as being addicted to the Internet. When thinking of drug and alcohol dependence, one of the largest criteria factors to evaluate the problems it is causing in a person’s life. If we look at Internet addiction is causing problems
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There is great controversy about whether Internet addiction should be considered an official mental health disorder or not. The general public, and even many mental health professionals, do not quite take ‘internet addiction’ seriously. Rather than engage in a debate about whether it or not Internet addiction is a “real” addiction or not, let’s look at how some people are solving the problem. Internet usage can be compulsive and generate
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Recent research seems to confirm the cynical view that people prefer the health solutions come in pill form, rather than taking more involved measures to heal oneself. According to Consumer Reports, Americans prefer taking prescription drugs to therapy sessions with a mental health professional. The most popular class of drugs are SSRIs, which includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. Nearly 80 percent of people who had been diagnosed with depression or
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