What is Internet Addiction

Does your mom, your friend or your boyfriend or girlfriend ever tell you that you are spending too much time on the computer? That you are forgetting your responsibilities? That you are becoing irritable and unsociable? Have you ever stayed up until 4 a.m. surfing the Web, downloading music or chatting online?

If you ansered “yes” to at leat one of these questions, then you might discover that you are, indeed, addiced to the Internet. And you are not alon. Internet addiction is on the rise. It is a medical condition first recognized by psychiatrists and clinicians in the early 1990s. At first it was met with a lot of skeptisim and dinial. However, it became evident that the more people logged on to cyber space, the more they got hooked.

Psychiatrists have hound that it is particularly unhappy or lonely people who are vulnerable, finging themselves easily addicted to the 24-hour contact the Internet provides. Such Internet addiction starts when people start to rely on the Web to fulfill all their emotional needs, These people may allow their lives to fall apart around them while they think of nothing but their cyber-lives. In cases like thses, the addiction often hoes unnoticed. so now, psychiatrists are waring people to look our for Internet addiction in others around them.