_Internet addiction_
Earth, year 2008. Every man, every woman, every child have such a necessary stuff as a PC. They wrote their letters with the help of PC, they keep their memories in it. What else? They want to share their memories and thoughts with someone whom they care much. And that is where Internet, the international net to connect the whole Earth appears.
First of all it's a grate opportunity to rich anyone anywhere, but in few years Internet turned to a mania. Men spent 18 hours per day living Internet life, instead of real. Though internet addiction still doesn't consider being nervous disorder as it is, it is a grate problem of our age and our generation. Internet addicts become nervous, anxious and emotionally excited when they lose connection with internet. It was year 1995 when the internet addiction was first described by Dr. Ivan Goldberg. Dr. Goldberg pointed out two main characteristics of IA: using Internet leads to constant distress; and damages physical, psychical, interpersonal, social status. People believe IA is just like the drug or cigarette addiction, but the psychiatrists believe it's just like the gaming addiction. About 83 ml Americans were connected to Internet in august 1999, by the year 2000 the number of those increased by 12 ml. As the number of internet users increase, increase the number of internet addicts, and problems it causes. It is a disaster, because we know a very few about the nature of the internet addiction and treatment methods. According to statistic research every second internet user is an internet addict, they spend their lives at chats, forums, online games and other internet services. They cut their words and sentences to a couple letters like afk, bb, mu, to save the time for internet searching.
The majority of internet addicts are a teenagers, people that are just have started their life, who need to stay outdoors as long as it possible to grow up strong, smart and intelligent. But they spent their time sitting in front of the glimming monitor, talking to virtual friends about the virtual problems of virtual people whom they have never even seen with their own eyes, and probably never will. They cognize the world through Internet information, written by faceless someone for faceless anyone. When they need a book they never go to library, they go to Yandex or Google, write the name of author and the novel they need and here you go, the digital copy of eternal Dostoevsky's "Idiot" minimized from a hundreds pages to a couple kilobytes. The glimmer of the monitor leads to the visual impairment, anorexia. Coffee, that helps internet users to keep their selves vigil, causes the stomach upset. It's an irreversible process that changes the whole nature of human psychic and physic. As you can see the internet addiction is an extremely dangerous disease, and it's very important to know how to recognize it, in order to help and save those you care about.