Greater use of the Internet is associated with increases in loneliness and symptoms of depression.
No way to win, eh? Stay on line one can become depressed. Go outside, there's a real "depression" coming. Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
According to the Social Sciences Citation Index's survey of research from 2000 to 2006, Castells was ranked as the fifth most cited social sciences scholar and the foremost cited communications scholar in the world.[2][3]
... Prevalence of Internet overuse One researcher estimates that up to nine million Americans could be labeled as pathological computer users.[21] British psychiatrists, reporting last year in the journal Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, say a "significant minority" - some estimate between five and 10 percent of online users -- are addicted to the Internet, and that while early research suggests most are highly educated, highly introverted males,[no comment :-)] more recent studies suggest the bulk of the problem is occurring among middle-aged women on home computers.[22] ... Prevention and correction In many cases, though not all, Internet overuse corrects itself. "It was Professor Kiesler who called Internet addiction a fad illness. In her view, she said, television addiction is worse. She added that she was completing a study of heavy Internet users, which showed the majority had sharply reduced their time on the computer over the course of a year, indicating that even problematic use was self-corrective."[15] Strategies include content-control software, counseling, cognitive behavioural therapy and twelve-step programs
One researcher estimates that up to nine million Americans could be labeled as pathological computer users.[21]
British psychiatrists, reporting last year in the journal Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, say a "significant minority" - some estimate between five and 10 percent of online users -- are addicted to the Internet, and that while early research suggests most are highly educated, highly introverted males,[no comment :-)] more recent studies suggest the bulk of the problem is occurring among middle-aged women on home computers.[22]
... Prevention and correction
In many cases, though not all, Internet overuse corrects itself. "It was Professor Kiesler who called Internet addiction a fad illness. In her view, she said, television addiction is worse. She added that she was completing a study of heavy Internet users, which showed the majority had sharply reduced their time on the computer over the course of a year, indicating that even problematic use was self-corrective."[15]
Strategies include content-control software, counseling, cognitive behavioural therapy and twelve-step programs
Or maybe a 10,000 steps programme:
10,000 STEPS A DAY Maybe you have heard the recent guidelines about walking 10,000 steps per day. How far is 10,000 steps anyway? The average person's stride length is approximately 2.5 feet long. That means it takes just over 2,000 steps to walk one mile, and 10,000 steps is close to 5 miles. A sedentary person may only average 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day. For these people adding steps has many health benefits. I have outlined the basic 10,000 steps program, but also added a commentary below. http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html
Maybe you have heard the recent guidelines about walking 10,000 steps per day. How far is 10,000 steps anyway? The average person's stride length is approximately 2.5 feet long. That means it takes just over 2,000 steps to walk one mile, and 10,000 steps is close to 5 miles.
A sedentary person may only average 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day. For these people adding steps has many health benefits. I have outlined the basic 10,000 steps program, but also added a commentary below.
http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html
I'm outta here :-) Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
up to nine million Americans could be labeled as pathological computer users.
because they don't want to spend the night in bars watching sports? or there's nowhere near them that plays any music that they like? or there's just no social set-up that caters for someone of their beliefs in the local area?
It smacks to me of someone saying see those people over there who aren't consuming the mass media in the way that you are, the ones who read books or talk about politics, they've not got something more, they're ill, no need to worry yourself about it. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Those saying there IS a problem - with some people (most of whom have existing problems) - don't just deplore their preference. It's a bit more than that:
In a 2008 editorial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Jerald J. Block, M.D. argues that Internet addiction should be included as a disorder in the DSM-V. He notes that symptoms of IA mirror other compulsive/impulsive disorders, including: 1.) excessive use (often associated with a loss of sense of time); 2.) withdrawal symptoms when access is denied; 3.) increasing tolerance (including growing needs for exposure to obtain the same effects); and, 4.) negative repercussions (including social isolation). He further observed that diagnosis was complicated because 86% of study subjects showing IA symptoms also exhibited other diagnosable mental health disorders.[16] ibid
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1.) excessive use (often associated with a loss of sense of time);
Thank god for the little clock in the corner, (Do Apples have them? and could there be a link?) ;-)
2.) withdrawal symptoms when access is denied;
Ditto mobile phone internet
3.) increasing tolerance (including growing needs for exposure to obtain the same effects);
People on the internet have been getting MORE tolerant???
4.) negative repercussions (including social isolation).
and what others?
diagnosis was complicated because 86% of study subjects showing IA symptoms also exhibited other diagnosable mental health disorders.
Hmmm so who's the sane one on the site? Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
lol! not that kind of tolerance! they mean you need ever higher doses to 'get off'. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
What exactly are these effects?
