Adicciones Al Internet

There are many addictions in the world. Addiction is the abuse or the excessive use of substances. There are two kinds of addiction, the mental, which is the one that affects your behavior, yourpersonality, for example, gambling, shopping, sex, are mental addictions. And the biological, that affects your body, like alcohol, drugs, nicotine, etc. One of the most common is the Internet addiction.This kind of addiction is a mental addiction. It affects your social life, your relationships. It affects your treatment with other people. You start losing that touch that you had with other persons.You don’t know how to treat them anymore. You don’t have time for anything else except surfing the Internet. When you are an Internet addict you feel this preoccupation of surfing, blogging andgoogling. You have this huge need to be online all the time. Fulfillment becomes limited to interaction on a screen.

This addiction starts with people who present new changes of personality, ofbehavior. When the closest persons start saying that you’re expending too much time online. When you lose contact with your friends. The Internet is used every day. Regularly, people use it from 15 to 20hours per week. Addicted people used it 60 hours per week. Some people use the Internet as a way to escape from their problems. This addiction is affecting humankind because of it growth with theyears. People use it excessively; it can be for work, or pleasure, or both, because in the Internet you can find everything you want to look for. Dr. Kandell, an Internet addict counselor, says that thisaddiction is growing, because it’s the resource that people use the most to have access to different kind of information. Addicted persons to the Internet can’t live without it. When they can’t have itthey start to feel empty, they start to have anxiety attacks, they feel lonely.
There are several ways to deal with this compulsiveness. For example, there are support groups. It’s a therapy that...