Internet Addiction?
Do you spend endless hours online? Are you one of millions who can’t get enough of MySpace or Facebook?
Internet addiction is a “common” mental disorder that should be recognized by health officials, according to an editorial in The American Journal of Psychiatry, news.com.au reports.
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Compartmentalization of behavior into classified categories seems to parallel Communist China’s treatment of the internet as a controllable affliction that needs treatment. One could envision China as being on the forefront of this effort and ahead of their American counterparts in the Psychiatric profession. I am glad to see Dr. Jerald Block making an effort to have the American Psychiatric Profession catch up in this area where their Chinese counterparts hold the edge in recognition of this affliction.
Could it be that The compulsive attempt to classify human behavior into various behavioral disorders itself needs to be included into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?