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Survey Finds Adults Check their Smartphones 352 times a Day!
I absolutely detest smartphones. – Not because I have anything against the technology per se. It’s more from the viewpoint that I just consider them to largely be an inferior version of better or more suited products. If I want to post something on my social media, for example, I’ll…
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First NHS Funded Gaming Addition Centre To Open In The UK
UK’s First NHS Funded Gaming Treatment Center To Open A little over a week ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially recognised gaming addiction as a medical condition. The addition to their categorisation was originally proposed back in December 2017 and as of last week, it is now an officially…
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Gaming Addiction Formally Recognised As A ‘Disorder’ By WHO
World Health Organisation Recognises Gaming Addiction How addicted are you to your gaming? In this context, the word ‘addicted’ might, for many, be an elaborate stretch. Then again, at what point does a hobby become an addiction? I suppose taking the term at its definition the term ‘addict’ means a dependency.…
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WHO Proposes ‘Gaming Disorder’ as Part of Addiction Diagnosis
The latest draft of the World Health Organization‘s 2018 international classification of diseases is now available online. Considering the diagnostic manual classification’s last update is all the way back in 1990, it is due for an update. For almost 30 years people’s lifestyles have changed and that includes the growth…
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13 Year Olds Being Treated for “Mobile Phone Addiction”
Children as young as 13 years old are being checked into clinics to help them deal with their mobile phone addiction. There is increasing concern that children today are becoming too reliant on social media and their phones to the point that some believe it may be a degenerative addiction.…
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Algeria Opens First Internet Addiction Clinic
Psychologist have opened the first clinic to treat internet addiction in Constantine, Algeria. The Bachir Mentouri clinic specialises in treating patients who are addicted specifically to social media, and has already seen over a hundred people, ranging between 15 and 40 years-old, since it opened its doors a few months…
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Russian Gamer to Sue Bethesda For Fallout 4 Addiction
Video games like any entertainment medium can be addictive especially if the individual in question has an obsessive personality. Usually, consumers applaud developers for creating expansive experiences and enjoy the value proposition this brings. However, a 28-year-old man from Krasnoyarsk is suing Bethesda for $7000 because he didn’t realize Fallout 4…
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Kickstarter Launched to “Help” People With Phone Addiction
The NoPhone Zero is definitely one of the most bizarre Kickstarter campaigns I’ve ever seen which replaces your smartphone with a piece of plastic. This invention, and I use the term loosely, is designed to enrich your life and stop people from obsessively checking their smartphone on a regular basis.…
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Rehab Clinics say our Smartphone Dependencies Fuel Other Addictions
Morningside Recovery rehab clinic’s executive director (Joel Edwards) has recently made some comments claiming mobile phone addiction is making some of our bad habits even worse. As we learned, Edwards stated: “The smartphone is the tool that helps exacerbate that addiction or it’s a tool they use not to deal…
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Heavy Use of Twitter, Facebook Can Damage Your Relationship
Obsessive use of social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook can negatively impact your relationship, according to a recent study published by University of Missouri doctoral researcher Russell Clayton. The use of Facebook and Twitter can be blamed for “negative relationship outcomes,” and it’s unknown if Instagram and other…
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