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Internet Addiction Disorder

English PresentationInternet Addiction

Disorder

Lecturer : Rusnizah Othman

http://allpsych.com/journal/internetaddiction.html

Maria Garcia DuranDecember 14, 2003

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WHAT IS ADDICTION ??

Activity where someone do the excessive activity

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TYPE OF ADDICTION

1. Smoke2. Alcohol3. Drugs (Narcotics and Drugs)4. Gambling5. Sex6. Playing games (online and offline)7. Internet 8. Junk food9. Criminal10. Shop Addiction12. Activities or other hobbies that excessive

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INTERNET ADDICTION DISORDER

The people who spend, use internet too much more than hobby.

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WHY INTERNET WAS CREATED ??

Because the growth of a hardly satisfied and very innotative population

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DIED BECAUSE GAMES ONLINE

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DR. GROHOL

“These people who cross the line are said to be suffering from a newfound diagnosis termed by researchers as Internet Addiction Disorder or (IAD).”

New concept that has been brought to public attention

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And now It’s still a very debatable question

It exits or Not

• Internet is addictive if it controls one’s life

• It isn’t the same as drunk

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Dr. Grohol

“those people do have problems from spending too much time on the computer”

they do not want to deal with the problems in their lives

Related

a person who watches a lot of TVthe person who reads an abundant amount of booksthe person who goes out for a few drinks regularly

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ALTERNATIVE THEORY

Newcomer Disillusionment Balance

Dr. Grohol

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Most of people engage in while on the Internet :

• Chat rooms• Discussion forums• E-mailing• On-line gambling

This action is therefore said to be nothing more than socialization

New

Socialization

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Researches concur that Internet is Addictive

They reject the real world and adopting the Internet as route

Why ???

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The Rationale why people become Addicted :

VAST

• Behavioral explanations

• Psychodynamic and personality explanations

• Sociocultural explanations

• Biomedical explanations

Ferris

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BEHAVIORAL EXPLANATIONS

Individual the Internet would represent the means to experience love, hate, satisfaction, and fulfillment without interacting face to face with another person

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PSYCHODYNAMIC AND PERSONALITY EXPLANATIONS

Explanations to addiction deal with the individual and his/her experiences

• Dependening on the childhood, they can develop an addictive behavior, or none

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SOCIOCULTURAL EXPLANATIONS

Explanations illustrate addicts according to their race, sex, age, economic status, religion, and country

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BIOMEDICAL EXPLANATIONS

Explanations deal with hereditary and congenial factors, chemical imbalances in the brain and neurotransmitters

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THE LARGEST SURVEY BY DAVID GREENFIELDIN 1998 WITH 18.000 PARTICIPANS

5.7 % for compulsive Internet usage

This straining on marriages and relationships

• Use of pornography• Cybersex and • Cyberaffairs

62 % login to pornsite n’ 37.5 % they masturbated while online

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RESEARCH BY PSYCOLOGISTKIMBERLY S. YOUNG, PH.D

496 heave Internet participants who were compared for Pathological gamblers

The dependency of the internet on an individual can harshly “disrupt one's academic, social, financial and occupational life”

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TREATMENT

Finding a psychologist

Analogous to the treatments of addictions

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FINDING A PSYCHOLOGIST

Will see eye to eye, heart to heart

• Acknowledge that the disorder is real (not attributes to another

disorder)

Raja

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ANALOGOUS TO THE TREATMENTS OF ADDICTIONS

12 steps group can be develop

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• Computer Assisted• Resembles dieting

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Finally, aRe U Addicted ??

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