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Addicted to the Internet? Seek Professional Help

Posted by Daniel Espinoza | Mar. 18, 2008 02:22PM PST | 374 views | 1 comment

FILED UNDER: News. Lifestyle.

Close your eyes and imagine a world with no internet or cell phones. If you start to panic, you may be the victim of an official brain illness.

The American Journal of Psychiatry recommends that internet addiction, including "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and email-text messaging", be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders as a common compulsive-impulsive disorder.

Skip ahead for a self-diagnosis.

Read More (Source: The Ottawa Citizen)

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