Addiction is such a strong word that makes us first think about: drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex and many other vices that are really complicated, especially when it comes to treatment.
I am neither a psychologist nor psychiatrist.
In this article, as the Internet is the only means to get through to BleacherWorld, I just want to shed light on addiction to the Internet in general, and B/R in particular.
Upss..! That makes it sound really serious, so let me take a humoristic approach to it.
Web-addiction is a universal phenomenon, so here some sympythoms:
When you are really addicted, if you really feel that you are identified by the things I am speaking about, I'll stop and ask you to please GO and find yourself treatment:
1) While using your computer, someone asked you to lend him something that you love very much, but since you are hooked on B/R, you just answer: ”Sure! Use it, you don’t even need to ask. . .”
2) When answering the comments on your article, you need to go to toilet, but you ignore the urge for a short time because you are completely absorbed in what you are writing.
3) While sleeping, your dreams are repeatedly HTML, Upload, Like, Pick, Dig, LOG OUT…
4) Your family is missing you so much, in spite of your being present in body. You’re more silent than ever.
5) All the news they get about you, which prove you are still alive, are simply your disturbing continous clickings on the keyboard.
6) Your friends have strange names such as: rocko, bob bob, Satan, angel. . .
7) There is an important job to be done at home and everybody is sure that somebody else would do it. For sure, you’ll never do it because you’re writing/commenting on B/R. So It ends up that everybody blames somebody when nobody does what anybody could have done!
8) You’re still working. . . never caring about the time, you keep on working online, till the morning breaks and the birds start singing outside your window.
9) You drink from a coffee cup into which you’ve extinguished your cigarette.
10) You set the alarm on your digital clock for 7pm instead of 7am.
11) All of your friends have an @ in their names.
12) Your dogs/cats have their own home page.
13) You fall asleep for a while, and then you wake up to go to the bathroom and stop and check your profile/mailbox on the way back to bed.
14) You never call your parents…because they don’t have a modem.
15) You’ve never been in a church/synagogue/mosque/temple…Then at 6.00pm you are religious more than ever.You raise your hands and look up to the heaven and: ”Oh God! Please help me on this, only one pick of the day and I will never ask for anything else.”
16) At 6 p.m./7 p.m. another article has won the Article of Day. If it’s not Leroy, it’s Blaine; if not Heartbeat of the Bronx, it’s Sulayman; if it’s not Rocky, it’s Shane. If it’s not DJ, then someone else who has successfully played music on your nerves.
If those symptoms persist, stop reading this article and call for an appointment to see a Psychologist.
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