Internet Addiction to be listed - Mental Disorder

You can read the article here, at Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-06/st_wtf

I don't know how to respond to this.

While I recognize that someone who could honestly live their life entirely online, and not see the problems therein, has a mental disorder, or at least a very serious mental problem. I also am growing more and more aware of today's society feeding more and more into the trend of using a medication to cure every problem imaginable to the human race. Depression, weight problems, anxiety issues, and now, individuals whom like their computers far exceeding the normal amount of accepted affection.

And while I realize that extreme cases of the above stated disorders do require medicine, not every case does. But every case is at least offered the choice, and nine times out of ten, handed it within minutes. My brother's doctors have told my parents countless times to put him on ADHD medication, which they refuse to do. The symptoms he shows, are normal for little boys. And using a medication to suppress him, and his appetite, I find to be the wrong decision. The other scary part of this, is that it's seeming that other means of dealing with problems, aren't being discussed anymore, or at least, aren't being discussed as much.

There are other routes to dealing with problems, a pill can't solve it all.