Virtual World Addiction
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Internet addiction will now be a recognized disease, which leaves me wondering how health plans will deal with it when the Chinese are using electroshock therapy to deal with too many hours in WoW.
Serious addiction ... a boy (12) receives electric shock treatment for his internet addiction in Beijing / AP
According to News.com.au:
The American Journal of Psychiatry published an editorial claiming that internet addiction met the criterion for a mental disorder and called on the American Psychiatric Association to officially list it as such.
The editorial’s author, Jerald Block, said internet addiction consists of three particular subtypes: excessive gambling, sexual preoccupations ...