Hooked on the Web: Help is on the Way By SARAH KERSHAW Published: December 1, 2005 www.nytimes.com
THE waiting room for Hilarie Cash's practice has the look and feel of many a therapist's office, with soothing classical music, paintings of gentle swans and colorful flowers and on the bookshelves stacks of brochures on how to get help. But along with her patients, Dr. Cash, who runs Internet/Computer Addiction Services here in the city that is home to Microsoft, is a pioneer in a growing niche in mental health care and addiction recovery. The patients, including Mike, 34, are what Dr. Cash and other mental health professionals call onlineaholics. They even have a diagnosis: Internet addiction disorder...
Friday, December 02, 2005
I.A.D. -- There's Help for the 'Net Addict!
Do you know what Internet Addiction Disorder is? Well, neither do I (though Mrs. Brainwise might argue that I am a tad too familiar with it). But I came across this story about it yesterday:
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I wanna be addicted, convicted, restricted. . . NOT! ;-)
Will U*Us please excuse the fact that the following important U*U Jihad communiqu-eh has a few missing links in it. . . ;-)
The Dagger of Sweet Reason Is Proud And Most Pleased To Announce To The U*U World That The Grand Admiral of the U*U Jihad Navy, Rev. David O. Rankin, Has Succeeded In Brutally Press-Ganging Fundamentalist Atheist Richard Dawkins Into Very Poorly Paid Service In The U*U Jihad Navy As A "Basically Unable To See Man"!
If it's true that it causes people to feel despair, that's tough. It's still the truth. The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. If it's true, it's true, and you'd better live with it. . .
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