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Saw this article today and thought a few people here might relate to it:

UK: Excessive text messaging may be sign of mental illness
Publisher: AAP NewsWire
Publication: aap International News (Thu 27 Mar 2008 3:28:21 AM)
Keywords: mental (3)
Edition: Both Cycles

By Wesley Johnson

NEW YORK, March 26 PA - People who send excessive text messages and emails may have a mental illness, according to an editorial in a leading psychiatric journal.

Dr Jerald Block said addiction to the internet "appears to be a common disorder that merits inclusion" in a new manual of mental disorders.

He said excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations and excessive text messages and emails were all covered by the illness.

In an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry, he said that symptoms included feelings of withdrawal when a computer cannot be accessed, an increased need for better equipment, the need for more time to use it, and negative repercussions of addiction, such as arguments, lying, social isolation and fatigue.

"Unfortunately, internet addiction is resistant to treatment, entails significant risks, and has high relapse rates," he wrote.

He referred to research in South Korea and China, where internet cafes are often used instead of computers in the home.

"Using data from 2006, the South Korean government estimates that approximately 210,000 South Korean children (2.1 per cent; ages 6-19) are afflicted and require treatment," he said.

"Perhaps 20 per cent to 24 per cent require hospitalisation."

Preventive measures are now being introduced into schools in South Korea, he wrote.

"I don't have a mental illness and I am not addicted to the Internet."





(Touch my computer and I'll bite you. )

Who the bloody hell is Dr Jerald Block anyway.... anyone got his number?

I'm gunna text the moron and let him know he doesn't know what he's talking about....

Fact I might send the same text message every 5 minutes for a week

how many of the symptoms do you need to have to qualify?

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psychiatrists getting bored with the hundreds of mental diseases they've made up?

Does this qualify as a symptom?

So now I have another addiction, At least its not CRACK

savageG, a true PC/net addict...............the side case of your computer is off.

i'm going to start a poll as i reckon we're in the majority!