Because of the need, many institutions have been born to quit internet addiction, and outdoor development, military training, day schools and so on have emerged. Some institutions even introduced the diagnostic criteria of Internet addiction as mental illness, which made many parents talk about the internet.
According to the diagnostic criteria of mental illness, it is easy to overturn the conclusion that "Internet addiction is mental illness".
Internet addiction is a psychological problem, manifested in children, but actually rooted in parents; It is not so much that children have psychological problems as that of parents' education. Because children are accused too much in family, school and society, because they need to export, so children will choose a virtual network to let him talk about their inner feelings, because in the network, no one accuses him and no one judges him, so for children, the network is a psychological need. If this psychological need is cut off, children will commit other rebellious behaviors, such as gambling, stealing and fighting. These are the behaviors of those young rebels when there was no Internet in the last century. Therefore, mentality determines life, and mentality determines whether children are obsessed with the Internet.
Solving children's internet addiction can't rely on blocking, because it is an expedient measure, and the fundamental solution is the child's mentality. When the child has no psychological problems, the child's internet addiction will naturally disappear.
Because the child is very young, many times, parents will inadvertently put the child who has solved the problem back, because the child has not changed, or does not know how to educate the child, from reprimanding to beating and cursing. Therefore, the key to solving Internet addiction is parents' education, and parents should follow a good educational concept. Of course, it is not enough to understand the educational concept, but also to have a "heart" certificate. Only with the "heart" card can we do it! Because often reason can't overcome emotion, so if you want to combine reason with emotion, you need to cultivate your mind and cultivate your nature. Ceng Zi said: "If you want to keep your home in order, you should cultivate yourself first. If you want to cultivate yourself, you should straighten your heart first." What is rightness? Is to treat our children calmly and make real friends with them. Because "it's wrong to be angry, it's wrong to be afraid, and it's wrong to be happy …" Our parents should think deeply.
Controversy: Internet addiction is not addiction, and the inducing reason is not network.
Internet addiction disorder was first proposed by Goldberger (MD) in 1995. According to the definition of pathological gambling in DSM-IV, he established the theory of pathological internet surfing, but it was not included in the latest statistical manual of mental illness diagnosis. IAD thinks whether it is classified as mental disorder needs to be studied. However, his definition of Internet addiction has been widely reported by the media, which makes it controversial whether this problem should be classified as a kind of mental disorder. Later, Goldberger declared that this assumption was a joke.
Psychiatrist Dr. Goldberger believes that Internet addiction is not a real addiction, and the real addiction is much more serious than Internet addiction. The definition of addiction is vague, and every compensation behavior can be called addiction. For example, some people talk on the phone with friends for a long time to vent their unpleasant emotions, which can also be called "telephone addiction". Similarly, liking the internet is no different from eager to communicate with friends.
In addition, some people think that many patients' excessive or improper use of the Internet is just a manifestation of their depression, anxiety and impulsiveness. Just like IAD's analysis of dietary addiction, patients' overeating is only self-comfort of depression and anxiety, not real dietary addiction.
Perhaps, some network-related behaviors, such as indulging in auctions, pornographic movies and online games, are morbid behaviors, but it cannot be said that online media itself is addictive. There are also some important online activities, such as e-mail, chatting and surfing the Internet, which are very different from pathological gambling. Internet is beneficial to society, while indulging in gambling is regarded as an act that has no contribution to society. Network is another social form. Not surfing the Internet is like living on a desert island, but it's morbid.
The medical community believes that addiction is generally used to describe people's dependence on drugs, tobacco, alcohol and other substances, which can be demonstrated by medicine. However, the internet is a media with diverse contents, and it is not a single chemical substance or other specific single behavior that stimulates the brain like drugs, tobacco and alcohol. Whether the problem of internet addiction is a disease or not is controversial in medicine and theory.
Social appellation
In China, the media will call Internet addicts "Internet addicts", and sometimes the media will directly or indirectly call Internet addicts and even moderate users (including online gamers) "drug addicts" or "mental patients". Many people are dissatisfied with these names and think they are derogatory and discriminatory. In Japan, they call these internet addiction groups "leaders" (hidden youth). This word refers to people who are introverted, stay at home all day except for work, interact with the internet all day, and have little face-to-face social behavior.
"electronic heroin"
In real life, heroin, as a drug, will do great harm to people's physical and mental health. In China, some scholars, media and parents of teenagers borrow the word "electronic heroin" to describe online content such as video games, online chat tools, obscenity and violence. Sometimes it also refers to simple online behavior. They believe that these information or entertainment means are addictive and will do harm to people's body and mind. The definition of this word is sometimes very vague and is a derogatory term.
Experts and scholars in China used such words in their speeches when the Internet was just emerging. Its appearance, like the appearance of words such as "Huang Ge" and "the voice of decadence", can basically be regarded as the product of insufficient understanding of new things under the influence of specific ideology. However, today, the Internet has become an ordinary way of life for many people in China. Not only has this word not disappeared, but it is often used by some parents whose children are addicted to the Internet. However, the emerging educational circles believe that it is illogical to compare the internet and games to drugs. The phenomenon of indulging in the internet and games does exist objectively, but it is not the reason of the internet and games themselves, but the reason lies in educational problems or other social problems.