Treatment Options For Depression
A complaint has been filed with the local RCMP, Tel-us abuse,yahoo
abuse about your posting personal information on the Net about Carr.
If he does it about other people, doing the same with him will not
help.
Carr is a member of the Mental Patients Association Downtown, is a
know mental patient.
That most if not all "Internet addicts" already fall under existing,
legitimate diagnostic labels. For many patients, overuse or
inappropriate use of the Internet is merely a manifestation of their
depression, anxiety, impulse control disorders. In this criticism, IAD
is compared to food addiction, in which patients overeat as a form of
self-medication for depression, anxiety, etc
Tolerance: This refers to the need for increasing amounts of time on
the Internet to achieve satisfaction and/or significantly diminished
effect with continued use of the same amount of time on the Internet.
Use of the Internet is engaged in to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms
The individual risks the loss of a significant relationship, job,
educational or career
opportunity because of excessive use of the Internet.
However, the effects that the addiction can have on every aspect of the
person's life are just as devastating as those of alcoholism. Religion
for example.
Some of the people agreed that it
is indeed possible to become addicted to the Internet.
Others such as Young and other psychologists, feel that used in excess,
the Internet
can become hazardous to one's mental and physical health. By
definition, an addiction
does interfere with normal, adaptive functioning.
So if someone is addicted, his or her
functioning is maladaptive. This may manifest itself in a few of the
symptoms classified by
the American Psychiatric Association, or it may manifest itself in all
of them.
Treatment
Treating Internet Addiction is not as simple as disconnecting from the
Web. Because there are many reasons and psychological conditions
underlying the behavior, rashly unplugging the modem may actually do
more harm than good. Such actions could ignite severe withdrawal
symptoms and drive the addict to seek fulfillment in other, potentially
more harmful ways. As with all addictions, then, the trick is to address
the underlying concerns in addition to controlling the behavior. In his
article "Treatment for Internet Addiction," Davis (2001c) stipulates
four main areas that must be addressed for treatment to be successful:
Pre-existing Psychopathology (the underlying conditions that
instigate Internet abuse)
Selective Reinforcement of Pathological Behavior (such as the computer
room itself or audio signals like the keyboard)
Maladaptive Cognitions (abnormal beliefs about the Internet and their
social place within it)
Social Network (friends and family members that both encourage and
discourage pathological Internet usage)
Ironically, a number of Websites offer treatment for Internet
addicts, as well as support to their families and psychologists (see
Websites). Although somewhat complacent with the disorder they attempt
to address, these websites represent the front line of the Internet
Addiction debate. Of course, the best approach is to seek general mental
health support, especially in light of the disorder's shaky foothold on
the psychological community.