Your Internet addiction is now considered a mental illness

Your hands are shaking, you've got cold sweats, you're jittery — you just need a fix. If you could just click that sexy red icon one more time, that's all you'd need to get through the morning. Sound like a familiar fixation? You're not alone: You may have something psychologists have deemed "Internet use disorder," and it's about to be added to the psychological bible "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders." The condition will be considered similar to other addictions (with symptoms like emotional shutdown, lack of concentration and withdrawal) and recommended for further study. So there you have it, you're an addict. Now get back to gaming and aimlessly surfing Wikipedia. [Source]

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