Internet Addiction Disorder

Mental health professionals say that as many as 19,000,000 Americans suffer from Internet Addiction Disorder. Naturally porn is at least partly at fault.

Skeptics argue that even obsessive Internet use does not exact the same toll on health or family life as conventionally recognized addictions. But, mental health professionals who support the diagnosis of Internet addiction say, a majority of obsessive users are online to further addictions to gambling or pornography or have become much more dependent on those vices because of their prevalence on the Internet.

Dr. Hilarie Cash (like that last name) tells the sad story of a man searching not just for porn but information as well:

She said she was seeing more patients like Mike, who acknowledges struggling with an addiction to online pornography but who also said he was obsessed with logging on to the Internet for other reasons. He said that he became obsessed with using the Internet during the 2000 presidential election and that now he feels anxious if he does not check several Web sites, mostly news and sports sites, daily.

Americans need to medicalize everything they do and there are quacks out there who'll take their money.

Just imagine suffering from IAD and Sexomnia - what perverse thing would you do to your computer?

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