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A Brief Detox from Digital Devices Can Help Sleep, Anxiety and Stress Levels
Sleep problems, high levels of stress and even depression or anxiety-related disorders: they’re all "connected," say researchers, to many people’s over-connectedness with their digital devices like smartphones and social media accounts. Continue Reading
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A Web Addiction Can Alter Your Brain
There have been multitudinous studies which show that persons who are addicted to substances actually undergo physical/chemical changes to the brain. But what about people who experience behavioral addictions such as gambling, video gaming, or internet use? Do such behavioral addictions impact the brain in any way? If so, how? A recent study conducted in China attempted to discover the answer to that question. Continue Reading
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Should Internet Addiction Become a Classified Disorder?
With the world of technology growing by leaps and bounds, the most popular toys for children have them staying indoors rather than playing outside. Jump ropes and bicycles aren’t near as popular as the latest hand-held computer or video game.
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, stresses that children today are growing up where electrical outlets and batteries are almost essential to a child in their play world. Children spend more time interacting with a screen than playing make-believe in the woods behind their house. But this technological trend has come with consequences. Continue Reading
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Four out of Five Parents Worry about Social Network Addictions
With our teenagers growing up in such a fast-paced world of constant changes in technology, it’s no wonder most parents are worried about their children’s social networking habits. Continue Reading
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Internet Addiction Can Have a Lasting Impact
An Internet addiction can be described as an excessive use of the Internet that interferes with the activities of daily life. With our children spending an increasing amount of their influential years online, are they becoming addicted? Will this habit carry into adulthood?
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Does Internet Addiction Truly Exist?
While excess computer time has certainly become a topic of debate, it has others wondering if the word "addiction" is being taken too far. Continue Reading
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The Use of Facebook and Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD)
While not an official diagnosis recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used in psychiatry, Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is becoming more recognized among providers of mental health services. Sometimes called Facebook Addiction Syndrome (FAS), this condition is generally considered to relate to the use of other social media sites besides Facebook as well.
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Withdrawals from Technology not Unlike Drug Withdrawals
Smart phones, TV, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, the Internet……what did we do to keep ourselves occupied before these things were introduced into our lives? Do kids these days even know what it is to play outside or go to the library? Our world has definitely changed by leaps and bounds with the rapid influx of technology into homes across the globe. But have we gone too far?
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The Internet, Our Newest Addiction
We are all familiar with alcohol and drug addiction. But what about a pure addiction to the Internet itself? Internet addiction represents the newest addiction of the 21st century. Aside from porn, it can come in the form of gambling, shopping, ID theft, and cyber bullying to name a few. It often flies beneath the radar because the addition of the Internet into our lives is viewed as an indispensable, modern Godsend.
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The Many Dangers of Online Gaming Addiction
A 22-year-old woman from Jacksonville, Florida, admitted to shaking her 3-month-old son to death after his crying interrupted her game of FarmVille, a social networking game that gained popularity through Facebook. Alexandra Tobias is facing a possible life sentence in the January death of her son, Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators that she shook him to try to stop his crying, smoked a cigarette to calm down, and then shook him again, which caused him to hit his head.
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