official medicine is not yet included in the list of mental disorders Internet addiction.Statistics, however, is depressing: the number of Internet addicts increases in proportion to the emergence of new Internet users, and today are experiencing this problem for about 10% of people with access to the Internet.
Conditionally internet addictive people can be divided into two groups: information dependent and socially dependent.The first group tends to be painful getting all the new and new information from various sources, and the second group - the infinite social networking.
Currently, psychologists are the following subtypes of addiction based on Internet resources, which gave it birth:
1. Addiction to virtual sex and watching porn sites.
2. Addiction to the virtual meet and communicate through social networks and services.
3. addicted to online trading on the stock exchange and gambling (poker, virtual casinos).
4. Addiction to search for new information and reading news resources, all kinds of databases.
5. Game addiction, ie,addicted to online games.
main symptom of any of these addictions is stermlenii spend at the computer all his spare time.Man gets used constantly in the virtual world and real life begins to feel uncomfortable, anxious, uncomfortable.It gradually turns into a depression, from which escape is only obtained on the Internet.So virtuality more and more addictive, Internet addiction is getting worse.
When you can not connect to the network, the addictive person feels a sharp dissatisfaction, boredom, emptiness.He revives and cheers only when the computer is in its virtual world.Long pastime World Wide Web is guaranteed to lead to social isolation, loss of family, problems with communication skills, narrowing horizons, disturbances in the sexual sphere, irritability and outbursts of anger.
Internet addiction distorts the structure and integrity of the person like a drug or alcohol addiction.But to realize the fact of internet addiction is sometimes very difficult because it does not lead to a clear physical consequences.
problem aggravated by the fact that the World Wide Web has a number of useful properties, which provide a modern society a more comfortable life.
At risk are primarily young people who have not yet matured mentality, endurance and stamina because of age reduced, but clearly there is a thirst for fun and new experiences.
How to treat computer addiction?
1. Limit traffic and while sitting at the computer, that there was no physical possibility to take place in the virtual world of a few extra hours.
2. actively involve a person suffering from addiction in economic affairs.Do not expect that this will be his delight and inspire, so encourage positive action gratitude and pleasant small gifts.Be patient with his irritability and temper tantrums.
3. Create the situation of communication in real life - gather friends, go to a cafe or a movie that suffers from Internet addiction taste for live communication.
4. Organize a long vacation, hiking in the mountains, in the wilderness.
5. Involve dependent to a new hobby, passion, to form an alternative life goals and interests.
6. load it as much physically - garden and dacha work, fitness room, swimming pool, long walks.
7. Contact a qualified psychologist who specializes in working with addictions.Internet addiction - a new direction, but it is treated similarly.
scrambles to subtly distract the man's dependence on the computer and create mechanisms for the rational in his use of the global network.
