DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i04.025

Pages: 505-507

Internet addiction is a wide term that covers a range of impulse-control problems and behaviors involving the internet, mobile technology, and personal computer, while there are no officially accepted criteria yet to diagnose internet addiction. The Internet in some way has made our lives easier, for example, it provides easy access to entertainment and information. However, when used excessive amounts, it can cause, anxiety obsession, depression, and also isolation, which are all symptoms of Internet addiction. Internet addiction is listed to be yet within the latest edition of the statistical manual and diagnostic of mental disorders. However, a 2-year study funded by the National Institutes of health may change that. Beginning in August of 2017, the study could deliver sufficient evidence that problems stemming from more internet use deserve serious attention from U.S. mental health and psychiatric communities. Professionals that do recognize internet addiction tend to classify it as either an impulse control disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder or to assist treatment. Internet addiction is additionally called internet dependence compulsive computer use, and pathological internet use.