Re: Internet Addicts Suffer From Mental Illness

[Guest guest]

One unexpected finding: Every study participant's Internet use met

established diagnostic criteria for the family of psychiatric illnesses

known

as impulse control disorders, which include kleptomania, a recurrent failure

to resist impulses to shoplift, and trichotillomania, the recurrent pulling

out of one's hair. In fact, Shapira has coined the problem " Internetomania "

because their behavior so closely mirrored that of those grappling with

these

syndromes.

" It's interesting, because in impulse control disorders what you see is

someone who has a building urge or anxiety about doing a behavior, and until

they do that behavior that anxiety or push or drive won't dissipate, " he

said. " Once they've done that behavior there is often pleasure or relief

associated with it. " <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

As usual the Psychiatric establishment, can't see what came first the chicken

or the Egg.

The truth is, that the kind of people that they are describing above, have

the problem first and the internet just becomes another way for them to

exhibit their behavior.

T.