The Internet is capturing the attention of young and old, we see everywhere people with smartphones in the hands constantly. Social networks have more users and the world is enchanted by the web.
But what problems lead to the human being this fierce Internet addiction? Several from those who already see in everyday life, such as changes in our behavior and our intuition to certain new disorders linked to the digital world
These disorders have been known for some years and were including for debate by the American Psychiatric Association, where it came to include some disorders related technologies, that history did not cover. This, and other additions have been the subject of some controversy both among mental health professionals such as psychologists.
We know the 8 new disturbances caused by the use of technology.
Syndrome ghost touch
the characteristic symptom of this disorder is to have the feeling that our phone is ringing or vibrating and thus will pick you up in order to know who is calling. It is now an automated and conditioned behavior (Pavlov’s theory) in which just a small stimulus to react and to perform a particular behavior.
According to Dr. Larry Rosen, author of the book iDisorder, 70% of active users smartphones / tablets, said to have gone through this experience. For Rosen, if old when felt a “tingling” in his pocket thought it would be some itching, presently, we assume that is our mobile phone, since this stimulus sends information to the brain through the neurotransmitters that cause anxiety or pleasure and do react with certain behavior.
This condition can progress to others when existence mass technologies ‘wearable’.
Depression caused by Facebook
You course to consider a depression should already be some bias in the person’s personality to have this disorder. Now we can see and induce, in many cases, depressive states that easily are exposed on Facebook.
This depression is caused by excessive online social interaction, which can lead to feelings of isolation, worthlessness, comparison of our life with others, lack of energy, lack sleep, etc.
a study of the University of Michigan shows that the degree of depression among young people is correlated with the time they spend on Facebook.
This can be due to that, as a rule, people tend to put on Facebook good things, vacation, restful life, cars, houses, job promotions, parties, etc. So easily we compare us with others and we tend to devalue our lives.
The advice is not to believe everything you read in this and other social networks. See here the kinds of people we meet on Facebook.
Addiction in Online Games
It has already written about the dependence on the Internet and Electronic Games, and there is a set of symptoms to may be familiar to many of our readers.
we know that games have the characteristic of being additive, and so we spent a lot of time playing them.
But the problem is when we do not we can control and we need to always be playing and thus neglect the basic tasks of human beings as sleeping, eating, bathing, etc.
DSM-V has not been included as a single disorder, but there is a section in the American Psychiatric Association, which leads to understand that this behavior is further investigation target to which may be put together of other addictive disorders such as psychotropics, drugs and gambling.
According to Dr. Rosen, when we are dependent on something, the brain is constantly tell us that we need some neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, in order to satisfy our desire.
Nomophobia
This condition shows up from anxiety that arises due to not having access to mobile devices or the Internet. Imagine yourself in a place where they can not take your phone / tablet / pc, or until run out of battery. Once we used to have access to this equipment, it is difficult we can deal with the fact that not the terms for a significant period of time.
we need to constantly go see the e-mail if we have called, what happens on Facebook, take the so famous selfies and to see the time. Nomophobia comes from the abbreviation of No Mobile Phobia, which means being afraid of being without mobile phone. And this absence causes us anxiety, being more significant in the most intensive users.
The DSM-V included this disorder, and there is a form of treatment in Morningside Recovery Center in Newport Beach, California.
Cybersickness. – Nausea Digital
This disorder is characterized by felt disorientation and vertigo when we are exposed to certain graphical environments
color Too much and visual stimuli may even trigger conflicts in brain circuits and lead to seizures.
for example, despite the appearance of iOS 7 Apple to be nice and clean, the truth is that originated several complaints from users who felt disorientated and nausea after using the new interface.
One reason is related to the effects the appearance is, which means that users have the fallacious perception that the icons are moving in a three-dimensional world.
the term designated cybersickness emerged in 1990 to describe the feeling of disorientation felt by novice users of virtual reality systems.
Internet addiction
Similar to electronic games, the Internet addiction is characterized by constant will you access the Internet.
in our articles 2010, Dr. Kimberly Young – responsible for the Internet- dependence Center, indicated as symptoms of Internet addiction:
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excessive concern with the Internet;
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Need to increase online time to have satisfaction;
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View repeated efforts to decrease the use of the Internet time;
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irritant presence and / or depression;
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When using the Internet is restricted, present emotional lability (Internet serves as a form of emotional regulation);
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Staying more online than scheduled;
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Labour and social relations at risk by overuse ;.
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Lying to others about the amount of hours online
So, it If an excessive and irrational use of the Internet, neglecting the consequences it may have on our daily lives.
Dr. Young also correlates this dependence to a low self-esteem, low self-sufficiency and poor skills
Cybercondria -. Hypochondria Digital
Surely that has happened you have any pain or symptoms whatsoever and when searching the Internet about it, discover they have something bad. Usually come soon results for diseases such as cancer, tumors, AIDS, etc.
Thus, there is a tendency to believe this ‘diagnosis’ and assume that it has that disease without first consulting a doctor / expert .
a 2008 Microsoft study revealed that self diagnoses made from online surveys, as a rule, lead to the worst we finish.
According to Dr. Rosen, the Internet can accentuate existing feelings of hypochondria and consequently cause anxiety. There are many online information, some true and some not so. So, if in doubt, consult your doctor.
The Effect Google
Google is undoubtedly a great help to research various topics, ask questions, find pictures, look for something , etc. But it also brings some consequences. Since we can have easy and simple access to this feature, we tend not to retain as much information in order to retrieve it later, since we know that Google gives us the information we need in a few seconds, replacing, so to speak our memory.
This scenario promotes laziness and, according to Dr. Rosen, Google effect may not even be a bad thing, and can be seen as a new social paradigm in which the human race have access to much more information becoming more informed.
on the other hand, it will also promote we do not have so much knowledge intrinsically, that is, whenever we are not from a machine where we can access Google, we have to use the knowledge we have in our memory long-term and that are smaller quantitatively.
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