Definition of internet addiction

Internet addiction

Internet addiction is a new type of addiction, in which the addicted person uses the Internet on a daily and excessive basis. Where it conflicts with his daily life and with the duties and jobs that he has to perform, and this addiction completely controls the life of the addict, and makes the Internet and his world more important to the addict than family, friends, and work, which negatively affects him and creates a kind of stress and anxiety for him.

Description

Internet addiction is a global problem that is being studied and means of treatment are sought in the most powerful countries in the world, such as: China, Korea, and European countries, as these countries consider it a disease or dysfunction that causes social problems and psychological and neurological disorders, affecting the life of the addict negatively, and preventing him from living a life outside the computer screen.

Symptoms

No specific pattern of behavior has been defined for Internet addicts, but some common things that they do have emerged. If your use of the Internet interferes with or impedes the course of your daily life in any way, that is, if it somehow affects your work and your relationship with your acquaintances and studies, you may be suffering from The problem of addiction, and if you find yourself rushing to connect to the network when you feel bored or change your mood, you may be on your way to addiction, because what distinguishes addiction is not only the number of hours spent on the Internet, but also the behavior or the purpose of using it, and other symptoms:

• Excessive use of the Internet, and a constant desire to stay online.
• Lying about the behaviors and behaviors followed when connecting to the network or hiding them, and the inability to control these behaviors.

Note: If you feel that you are addicted to the Internet, you must undergo treatment immediately so that the problem does not worsen further.

the reasons

Internet addiction can be understood and analyzed by comparing it to other types of addiction. For example, alcoholics and intoxicants abuse alcohol and other drugs. Because they feel normal when they use it, and because they reach a state of euphoria, and the same applies to addiction to the Internet, where addicts use it excessively to feel normal, and to reach a state of euphoria or happiness through cyberspace, so they abandon healthy and natural social relationships, and take relationships Fake social on the Internet, and they replace the deep and warm feelings arising from social relationships, to live the temporary, imperceptible feelings.

Internet addiction follows the formative nature of other addictions. Internet addicts suffer as they try to control their lives, feel frustrated when they fail, and lose their self-confidence, which pushes them to escape and dive deeper into their addiction and into their cyberspace.