"addictive?
While in countries like China grow drug rehabilitation centers to the Web, more and more specialists around the world to ensure that no such condition exists. A debate that takes years, and has its own history
all began in 1995 when a New York psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg called it occurred to assemble a joke to his colleagues. I had read the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual mental disorders, or DSM, the bible of modern psychiatry, and decided to invent a disease to their peers discuss about it.
spoke of anxiety, the need to connect for hours, involuntary movement of the fingers to write and even encouraged to create a group of cyber addicts anonymous. Ivan Goldberg was calm and proud of its occurrence, but a few days of hanging this "joke" on his website received hundreds of messages from people claiming to suffer the problem that he described. Internet addiction. The idea grew and the same year the psychologist Kimberly Young, a leader in the field, founded the Center for Recovery of Internet addiction. The term Internet addiction became popular and the media echoed like a real snowball.
Fifteen years later, the so-called Internet addiction is still missing in the diagnostic manual of mental disorders. Moreover, several psychiatrists worldwide say directly that it is a nonsense. And many set the example of the newspaper: There may be people who need every morning reading the newspaper, and that if he does not even feel that something is missing, but that does not exist can become an addiction to paper.
One of the first who warned about this joke was the psychiatrist Facundo Fora, a member of the Barcelona Teknon clinic. It was precisely at a conference on Internet and new technologies that took place in Spain, where Fora opened the debate: "Internet addiction is now a myth."
He stated that the vast majority of Internet users actually seek medical help are addicted to sex or gambling (because it almost exclusively visit porn sites or online casinos) and undergo psychological problems are not caused by internet, such as social phobia or disorder obsessive compulsive disorder. The site would then be nothing more than a car. In other words, if someone is addicted to water, do not blame it on the glass.
In Argentina this controversy and landed, and there were many experts who refused to address this issue as if it were a disease. According to many local media professionals, you can not talk because internet addiction is not a substance like alcohol, cocaine or snuff.
course, not everyone thinks the same: from the Provincial Addictions Plan Mendoza, for instance, the psychologist Miguel Conocente went on to say that "cyberaddiction" exists. "Internet is totally addictive. I tried to 9 people who spent at least 10 hours a day connected. Were clearly cases of addiction.
not bear not to be connected and when they were not showed withdrawal symptoms of an addict, hands sweating, palpitations, irritability and zero tolerance for frustration. "
is not alone in thinking in this line. From the direction of graduate Addictions at the University of Salvador, in fact, also agree that, regardless of whether it exists as a type, internet is addictive. "There are people who have problems in your life and find online a fantasy world, a fascinating haven that allows them to escape reality," he says (see "The Web creates ...") Laura Siri, meanwhile, author of "Internet: search and search" is convinced that "cyberaddiction" is not a myth: "It's something invented a psychiatrist who wanted to earn their good dollars." When it came up with this supposed condition is said to go online more than 38 hours per week should be considered as an addictive behavior.
Enrique Carrier, director of consultancy Carrier & Associates, for work above that mark.
But is nowhere to be seen as a "Neowin. "It's so crazy to say that I am addicted to the desktop because I spend the day working on the desktop."
describing symptoms Goldberg awoke at his joke but all kinds of analysis: general reduction
physical activity and sociability, continuing desire to be in front of the computer and drastic changes in lifestyle. In our country, as noted, the controversy has long since been growing and have not had a final cut. According to a recent study by consultancy Irol D'Alessio, there are over ten million Internet users in Argentina. How many of them would be addicted?
is not known, but there are numbers oriented. For example, 25% of Internet users surveyed said they could not be more than a day off, and 13% said he would tolerate only a few hours. In addition, two million Argentines who use the Internet more than six hours. Cyberaddicts Are they real?
"No way," says Maria Ines Gil, a psychologist specializing in addiction. The term 'Internet addiction' was originally one of those jokes that end up circling the world several times via email. The message said ironically have discovered a new syndrome, the syndrome of Internet addiction, and proposed to create nothing less than the first web of cyberaddicts cibergrupo anonymous. Something like the first association of Alcoholics Anonymous which meets in a bar having some drinks. "
For the specialist, "there are many virtual clinics do their good business trying this syndrome is a condition not listed in the DSM and rehabilitation centers of China and Japan are in my opinion a purely commercial.
What there is, I think, is an excessive use of internet, but not addictive. One thing is very different article over and over addiction. "
spoke of anxiety, the need to connect for hours, involuntary movement of the fingers to write and even encouraged to create a group of cyber addicts anonymous. Ivan Goldberg was calm and proud of its occurrence, but a few days of hanging this "joke" on his website received hundreds of messages from people claiming to suffer the problem that he described. Internet addiction. The idea grew and the same year the psychologist Kimberly Young, a leader in the field, founded the Center for Recovery of Internet addiction. The term Internet addiction became popular and the media echoed like a real snowball.
Fifteen years later, the so-called Internet addiction is still missing in the diagnostic manual of mental disorders. Moreover, several psychiatrists worldwide say directly that it is a nonsense. And many set the example of the newspaper: There may be people who need every morning reading the newspaper, and that if he does not even feel that something is missing, but that does not exist can become an addiction to paper.
One of the first who warned about this joke was the psychiatrist Facundo Fora, a member of the Barcelona Teknon clinic. It was precisely at a conference on Internet and new technologies that took place in Spain, where Fora opened the debate: "Internet addiction is now a myth."
He stated that the vast majority of Internet users actually seek medical help are addicted to sex or gambling (because it almost exclusively visit porn sites or online casinos) and undergo psychological problems are not caused by internet, such as social phobia or disorder obsessive compulsive disorder. The site would then be nothing more than a car. In other words, if someone is addicted to water, do not blame it on the glass.
In Argentina this controversy and landed, and there were many experts who refused to address this issue as if it were a disease. According to many local media professionals, you can not talk because internet addiction is not a substance like alcohol, cocaine or snuff.
course, not everyone thinks the same: from the Provincial Addictions Plan Mendoza, for instance, the psychologist Miguel Conocente went on to say that "cyberaddiction" exists. "Internet is totally addictive. I tried to 9 people who spent at least 10 hours a day connected. Were clearly cases of addiction.
not bear not to be connected and when they were not showed withdrawal symptoms of an addict, hands sweating, palpitations, irritability and zero tolerance for frustration. "
is not alone in thinking in this line. From the direction of graduate Addictions at the University of Salvador, in fact, also agree that, regardless of whether it exists as a type, internet is addictive. "There are people who have problems in your life and find online a fantasy world, a fascinating haven that allows them to escape reality," he says (see "The Web creates ...") Laura Siri, meanwhile, author of "Internet: search and search" is convinced that "cyberaddiction" is not a myth: "It's something invented a psychiatrist who wanted to earn their good dollars." When it came up with this supposed condition is said to go online more than 38 hours per week should be considered as an addictive behavior.
Enrique Carrier, director of consultancy Carrier & Associates, for work above that mark.
But is nowhere to be seen as a "Neowin. "It's so crazy to say that I am addicted to the desktop because I spend the day working on the desktop."
describing symptoms Goldberg awoke at his joke but all kinds of analysis: general reduction
physical activity and sociability, continuing desire to be in front of the computer and drastic changes in lifestyle. In our country, as noted, the controversy has long since been growing and have not had a final cut. According to a recent study by consultancy Irol D'Alessio, there are over ten million Internet users in Argentina. How many of them would be addicted?
is not known, but there are numbers oriented. For example, 25% of Internet users surveyed said they could not be more than a day off, and 13% said he would tolerate only a few hours. In addition, two million Argentines who use the Internet more than six hours. Cyberaddicts Are they real?
"No way," says Maria Ines Gil, a psychologist specializing in addiction. The term 'Internet addiction' was originally one of those jokes that end up circling the world several times via email. The message said ironically have discovered a new syndrome, the syndrome of Internet addiction, and proposed to create nothing less than the first web of cyberaddicts cibergrupo anonymous. Something like the first association of Alcoholics Anonymous which meets in a bar having some drinks. "
For the specialist, "there are many virtual clinics do their good business trying this syndrome is a condition not listed in the DSM and rehabilitation centers of China and Japan are in my opinion a purely commercial.
What there is, I think, is an excessive use of internet, but not addictive. One thing is very different article over and over addiction. "
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