Internet addiction disorder

Behavioral addiction is a psychological disorder in which an individual fails to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that can cause harm to the person or others. It is characterized by a repeated pattern of behavior (Grant, 2011). These behaviors may include compulsive buying, pathologic skin picking, sexual addiction (non-paraphilic hyper sexuality), excessive tanning, computer/video game playing, and internet addiction, among many others (Grant, 2011). Feelings of…

Addiction occurs when there is a compulsive and repetitive action that affects a person’s ability to perform ordinary activities of daily living such as, work, school, personal hygiene, etc. As described on Psychology today website (https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/addiction), this continuous act of addiction could be abusing of drugs, ingesting of chemicals or substance such as cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, food, etc., or partaking in activities such as gambling, shopping, internet surfing,…

time. The following statistic “Young adults act much like teens in their tendency to use sites. Fully 72% of online 18-29 year olds use social networking websites, nearly identical to the rate among teens, and significantly higher than the 39% of internet users age 30 and up who use these sites” demonstrates how not only are teenagers the problem but there are many parents who don’t seem to care if their kids are on social media all day because they do the same thing (Winkler). Yeah anyone can…

Frying your Brain on the Internet: Social Media is Cooking your Gray Matter Kathryn Fitzgerald -- July 18, 2016 Even though Steven Johnson's essay contains convincing arguments, his thesis that "Watching TV Makes you Smarter" (120) is overwhelmed by a tsunami of scientific evidence to the contrary. Nicolas Carr's essay deals with a different type of media -- internet browsing -- and takes the opposite stance to Johnson. Carr asks, "Is Google Making us Stupid?" (609). Even though both…

mornings. In addition, it causes terrible chest pain and sounds irritating to listen. So, smokers even if they accustomed to the constant coughing, may disturb other people in their social life. Moreover, smoking may trigger to mental disorder such as depression, anxiety, and stress. According to the researchers, there are substances of tobacco which enhance the chance of symptoms of depression (The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2010, pp 425-26). In addition, the…

addictive disorders are when an individual intoxicates their own body and abuse the use of one or more substances. The intoxication poisons an individual 's body thus causing many effects, ranging from mental to physical problems. The reason this is considered a physiological disorder is the addiction: the act of becoming enslaved to a constant action or substance making you unable to stop. Most of the time becoming abusive to misuse and being harmful. There are two categories in which…

I have discovered two predominant themes in the body of literature concerning addiction treatment and recovery. There is no clear, agreed upon definition of the terms addiction or recovery, and there is a noticeable lack of research and data relating to the effectiveness of treatment or the measurement of success in recovery. (Dodge, Krantz, and Kenny, 2010; Engs, 2012; Goodman, Mckay, and DePhillippis, 2013; Sanghani, Carlin, and Moler, 2015; Toft, 2000) I have chosen to review several…

The internet can be regarded as one of the primary developments that has resulted from the evolution of technology. It has proven to be an excellent source, ranging from assisting those with work that is difficult to complete to those who may use the internet for simple, yet effective things. Public schools utilize the internet as support while conducting education. Many children exemplify considerable intelligence and knowledge when navigating Internet sources, which indeed, further allow them…

Author Nicholas G. Carr refuses media screen addiction claiming, “There's nothing unusual about this. We routinely become dependent on popular, useful technologies. If people were required to live without their cars or their indoor plumbing for a day, many of them would probably resort to the language of addiction to describe their predicament. I know that, after a few hours, I'd be seriously jonesing for that toilet. What's important is to be able to see what's happening as we adapt to a new…

An addiction can be stated as either a biopsychosocial disease or in severe cases a brain disorder. An addiction holds the power to dictate many aspects of people’s lives, and can turn into a solid form of suffering. In the past, an addiction was only classified as substances that crossed the blood-brain barrier, and then temporarily alter the chemical balance of the brain. These kinds of substances would include alcohol, tobacco and some drugs. But more recently a considerable number of…