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Internet Addiction, US Research Institutes Plan to Include Mental Illnesses Nowadays, more and more people are addicted to the Internet. According to the latest statistics, nearly 70% of patients are children or teenagers. The American medical community...

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Internet Addiction, US Research Institutes plan to include mental illnesses. Nowadays, more and more people are addicted to the Internet. According to the latest statistics, nearly 70% of the patients are children or teenagers. The American medical community is planning to classify Internet addiction as a mental illness. Psychiatrists also feel that it is necessary to allow children with Internet addiction to receive treatment as early as possible, because anxiety may occur in the early stages. In severe cases, there have been cases that have been life-threatening. Some people play video games until they can't stop playing, while others gradually become addicts and are controlled by 3C products. This phenomenon is getting younger and younger, especially among teenagers and children. Now the American medical community is alert and planning to classify Internet addiction as a mental illness. Once it is classified as a mental illness, it depends on how it is diagnosed. If tolerance develops, it means that you will be satisfied if you spend more and more time online. If you don't use the Internet, you will worry about missing letters and become anxious. It may even interfere with your normal life and prevent you from going to work and class. This is Internet addiction. Because there is a happiness center in the brain. When you surf the Internet, you will feel happy, and then it will be transmitted to the frontal lobe, and you will tell yourself that surfing the Internet equals happiness. Then you will keep wanting to go online or even get deeper and deeper, worrying that Internet addiction will endanger your life.

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