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Internet Addiction Could Be Classified As Mental Illness

by Evan Shamoon on March 18, 2008 at 09:10 AM

Put down your laptop and listen up: The Ottawa Citizen is reporting that compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness. This month's issue of American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction -- which includes "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" -- is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder, and that it ...
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