A Tangled Web Of Addiction
Bill Machon
Psychiatrist Jerald Block argues in the American Journal of Psychiatry that Internet addiction should be listed in the next version of the US handbook of recognized psychiatric addictions. He breaks down Internet addiction into three parts - excessive gaming, pornography, and emailing/texting. He defines excessive use as being associated with loss of a sense of time, and feelings of anger and tension when a computer is unavailable, among other symptoms. He cites reasearch about web addiction in South Korea, where high schoolers spend 23 hours per week gaming online. The South Korean government considers web addiction to be one of its top health priorities. Unfortunately, research in the US has produced mostly cloudy results.
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save us from the psychiatrists!!
Yes, please save us all from these shrinks!
They are shams in league with big pharma, which is political, and social, control, and their BIBLE is their DSM book!
checkout: Psychiatry's Bible - DSM - Leonard Frank Anti-psychiatry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKkssbHJv68
the internet
I can easily see how this kind of gaming addiction can be a problem. It's a shame these young people don't choose to spend their time programming themselves to the kind of information there is here at RS.
But for me the whole modern era can perhaps almost be justified by the invention of the internet, because I think the internet could be just a leap away from becoming the consciously accessable collective consciousness/gain mind. And then we won't need the state or anyone else to tell us what to do, other than our own (gaian?) conscience. There could be Anarchy -
http://deoxy.org/wiki/Anarchy
'I'm not setting out a blueprint. I know what I want for the community where I live: needs of bored teenagers addressed, traffic constrained, rubbish sorted and estate agents executed. But this is one agenda amongst millions. To be free you have to know what to do. I want to work with people who have their own agendas. It's the individual agenda that should count, not some imposed model masquerading as the collective agenda' -
An individual's informed, consciencious decisions, that come from the Gaian mind itself.
Perhaps it is unwise to hope for something that is so far fetched. Yet looking at the state of the world, the corrupt leaders, the nuclear missiles, nature polluted, species extinct, our children drugged, people starving, it seems so sad, and I feel complicit in it.
So in my mind I’d rather work torward some hopeful solution, than look for problems in something that could actually save us.
http://www.artconspiracy.com/gallery_item.aspx?area=eye&itemid=240148&id=2144121023&category=