Stressed to be disconnected?

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These are times in which we persist in putting all the labels and that are in vogue in recent years is the addiction to technology and more specifically the Internet. While it is true that any "heavy user" is half smile just to hear mention, the fact remains that since the year are
Rivers of ink in the scientific literature discussing this addiction called IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder).

But is there really this mess? And if so, how and when I can detect that my modus vivendi crosses the line between warm normalidadde addiction? Response is really complex and there are all sorts of theories, perhaps you should always apply logic and vivirsin ask if we can compulsively check our e-mail, chat and interact with our Messenger on our favorite social network without it we believed the least stress. Young people from around the world have for years instead of their leisure habits, once anchored the living room of the house through the television, into a new leisure time making them stay connected to the network many hours a day.

Another clear example is how long telephone conversations of teenagers have migrated dramatically in recent years towards interaction in social networks and instant messaging services. That in itself is not a problem nor is a worrying symptom is simply a hallmark of a new generation, the first generation digital native.

The alarm bells should start to come on when the habit, those long connection times begin to replace the personal contact with the people around to the point of change and limit the individual, or even a split personality unfold online-offline. If the weather front of the monitor voids the socialization of the individual reflection is needed. They may be starting to cross the road that separates the perception of the real and virtual.

Symptoms

There are several symptoms that should alert us and make us reflect the need to increase the time online to get a real satisfaction or the need to link daily stress to the inability to do so at certain times. We can start to worry if we stop our normal activities, especially those related to recreation because of the use of the Internet or if you have sleeping problems, marital and neglect of professional obligations.

The distortion of emotions and confusion between virtual events and the real world, may be another sign that something is wrong. There have been described tens of thousands of cases of Internet addiction to technology in general and particularly to video games, and interestingly there is a greater proliferation of these diseases in the U.S. and Asia.

Recent studies that talk about an Internet user population may suffer from some kind of anomaly in their relationship with the digital medium, but it is important to note that the Internet itself produces disorders or addictions, if they can make little use sound of the various services offered by the network, such as chat rooms, online shopping, social networks, information search and so on. The mere fact of being connected not determine many hours we have a problem, actually walked towards a total connection fixed and mobile devices.

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