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- mtdaugherty, on 03/18/2008, -1/+26I have to send this to my friends.
- makkaveli19, on 03/18/2008, -1/+19i know this may sound exaggerated but i'm definitely addicted to the Internet. i log onto digg compulsively hoping for a new story, or to check my comment status( it's embarrassing i know) then i check facebook again to see if i have an update. it's like a vicious circle that eats up my day and my productivity. i've been leaving assignments and papers for the night before because of this reason. it's sad i know, but it definitely is an addiction.
P.S out of all the random pics posted for a story. this monkey eating an icecream bar wins the award for the most irrelevant. - Railz, on 03/18/2008, -4/+21This just in, breathing is an epidemic!
- WoollyMittens, on 03/18/2008, -0/+13Let's invent a new mental illness to have an excuse for a disgraceful lack of self-discipline.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+131. My work requires me to check e-mail all the time if not my boss gets angry.
2. All diggers have mental disorders then.
3. I rather substitute watching TV, reading newspapers/magazines with going online and getting the real facts and more intellectually stimulating content. Its like a fast paced discovery channel...
4. Shove your disorder up where the sun doesn't shine - I'm pretty healthy and doing fine! I love my digg and i get more opinions and facts through it than any other medium... so i kinda got addicted. - inactive, on 03/18/2008, -1/+14As long as I can get a check from the gov.....It's a mental illness.
- DonJohnTom, on 03/18/2008, -1/+14sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night and check whats popular on digg........do i have a problem? :(
- bnordlund, on 03/18/2008, -0/+13"....about 86 per cent of Internet addicts have some other form of mental illness."
- uberdilly, on 03/18/2008, -1/+12Damn, I'm reading this at 3:33 A.M.
Maybe I need help. - ch4os1337, on 03/18/2008, -0/+9But seriously, what Isn't a mental illness?
- doyoulikeworms, on 03/18/2008, -1/+10what the *****
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -2/+10If that's the case..I'm EXTREMELY sick...
- 4eloBek, on 03/18/2008, -0/+8Nice, invent new disease + create cure = profit!
- saswannabe17, on 03/18/2008, -0/+8... will we get meds for this? :invests in pharmaceuticals:
- rz8472, on 03/18/2008, -1/+9Addiction to water is permanent. It's withdrawal symptoms are deadly.
- cleverhandle, on 03/18/2008, -1/+8because microsoft and apple are wholly responsible for people trying to jump into their computers, right?
- screwy3333, on 03/18/2008, -1/+8My girlfriend thinks she is addicted to computers. Recently she was sent to the hospital after trying to draw her whole bedroom in Gimp and then physically trying to jump into the computer when she was tired. This may sound screwed up but it happens to more people than you think. Microsoft and Apple have files and files of complaints from users just like my GF......however I'm sure they conveniently misplace these documents in the basement next to the open source Excel code.
- hex3n, on 03/18/2008, -0/+7So can I sign up for Social Security disability and quit work ?
- beankitty, on 03/18/2008, -1/+7EXCELLENT, more money for the drug companies.
- Dominicc2003, on 03/18/2008, -2/+7Is Digg an addiction?
:-( - cl2yp71c, on 03/18/2008, -1/+6Psychiatry, in this case among many others, is *****.
Guess those scientologists got one thing right. - CC440, on 03/18/2008, -1/+6Is it Ironic that I'm posting in the comments of this story at 4am?
- aukxsona, on 03/18/2008, -1/+6No *****, they VOTE on this ***** instead of doing studies.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+5Physical dependency (or "Addiction") is your body becoming so used to running on whatever the thing is that when you don't have it, it triggers "characteristic withdrawal symptoms", as seen in nicotine, opiates, and alcohol among others.
Psychological dependency is when you THINK you need something that you have become so accustomed to, and just as the mind can make us irrationally afraid of benign objects and ideas, can make us hear voices, and take our own life, it can also control our actions based on what stimulates it more. And as for withdrawal symptoms, anxiety from not going online and checking your email doesn't count, nor does boredom.
Its somewhat well known, but still necessary to add as an annotation to ANY article mentioning addiction, because just using the word "addiction" is sloppy and sensationalist reporting, just as using the term drugs by itself is stupid, it needs clarification, at the very least "illegal" or "legal" before it. - faskill, on 03/18/2008, -1/+6I vote they stop voting.
- ch4os1337, on 03/18/2008, -0/+5Check this. BItch!
- BrandonB1218, on 03/18/2008, -0/+4Just another thing to blame irresponsibility on. Why is it never the persons fault, but always a mental condition or the governments fault.
- nitsnipe, on 03/18/2008, -1/+5Dr. Block is probably really pissed that he doesn't know how to open a facebook account, so he decides to invent some new disease to justify his lack of adaptivity in this fast moving world.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -2/+6Vagina
- nwoantibody, on 03/18/2008, -1/+5Great! Now another reason to medicate you and put you in the system that doesn't work.
It's Soma for everybody, or Soma for Nobody! - Visarga, on 03/18/2008, -0/+4Let's see... I am also addicted to talking. Every day, I mean, every day I talk. Can you imagine that? Sometimes I talk more than a few minutes. I am also addicted to music and reading. Poor me.
- doyoulikeworms, on 03/18/2008, -0/+3What? Nonsense. I can quit whenever I want to.
- betacmag4u, on 03/18/2008, -0/+33:50 am eas here :)
- computergod, on 03/18/2008, -1/+4Send this instead:
Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal writes that recent research shows that a brain rewards itself with a squirt of natural opiates when it comes across new information that requires interpretation. That's why, he concludes, people stay on the Web for long periods of time.
What is it about a Web site that might make it literally irresistible? Clues are offered by research conducted by Irving Biederman, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, who is interested in the evolutionary and biological basis of the human need for information.
Dr. Biederman first showed a collection of photographs to volunteer test subjects, and found they said they preferred certain kinds of pictures (monkeys in a tree or a group of houses along a river) over others (an empty parking lot or a pile of old paint cans).
The preferred pictures had certain common features, including a good vantage on a landscape and an element of mystery. In one way or another, said Dr. Biederman, they all presented new information that somehow needed to be interpreted.
When he hooked up volunteers to a brain-scanning machine, the preferred pictures were shown to generate much more brain activity than the unpreferred shots. While researchers don't yet know what exactly these brain scans signify, a likely possibility involves increased production of the brain's pleasure-enhancing neurotransmitters called opioids.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB12052775650 ... - masterm1nd, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2Since no one here seems to know, that wouldn't mean you're an addict if you use the internet. The definition of addiction is continuing to do something (anything) despite negative consequences. I know there are a hundred other definitions but that one is the best. So, if you get fired from your job or loose your wife becuase of your internet use, you'd be an addict.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2I will recognize this article as a mental illness.
- Buckwyld, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2I am either first or second diagnosed! LoL
- jesuswuzanalien, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2So that's what I have?
- chrisgnv, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2They say this about everything. Isn't anything a person is obsessed with and psychologically addicted to a "mental illness", then?
- Hangly, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2If there were no internet I would get a lot more done, that's for damn sure.
- nitsnipe, on 03/18/2008, -1/+3Same, you live on the (-5) Eastern Time zone don't you.
- DrIce926, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2*hug*
It's 6:42AM where I live right now...and I haven't gone to sleep yet. You're not alone. - spyd3rweb, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2No they never create cures, they only create treatments. Cures never make money.
- GlryX, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2just another addiction, i mean habit
just another thing to medicate - Sendai129, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2I know what ya mean, same deal for me only not just digg/facebook/stumbleupon. Video games hit me hard too, I've ended up failing multiple courses in university partially due to wasting so much time doing... well nothing really online.
One thing I've found that does seem to start helping is to remove the availability to whatever it is that's taking up so much time. I uninstalled most of my games and I'm considering blocking access to digg, newgrounds, onemorelevel and other sites like that. At first it can be pretty hard and you find yourself trying desperately to find something to fill your time with, anything other than something that really matters. But eventually you can overcome the addiction.
I don't think it's so much an addiction to the computer or internet. Instead I think it's more of just an addictive personality that's manifesting itself on the computer and internet.
Anyways I need to get back to studying for a midterm that I have in... 13 hours to go. I'm sure I'll be back to check my comment shortly heh. - thatfunman, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2HAhahahahah...It was only a matter of time. Dugg.
- masterm1nd, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2Yeah, for some odd reason, they just don't invest the same time and energy into saving lives when you pay them with beans... or kittens.
- NunoXEI, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2Guilty! Where do I register myself?
- Arkz, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2im reading it at 6:66! ...ok its 7:06 but i had to chime in, and also my clock is wrong its actually 8:24... *sigh* just... dont digg me down TOO far..
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