It promises so much: “World…Wide…Web.” The whole world at your fingertips.
But like any addiction, all the promises of the WWW fell flat when I got addicted and it came back to bite me on the bum.
I came to the Internet party late. The year was 1998. The first time I went online was at my technical college and I was so cult brainwashed, I thought the instant I opened the browser, pow! There’d be porn in my face. And I wasn’t even sure what porn was.
I remember being “interrogated” at home that evening. What had I seen online? Anything naughty? When we finally got the internet at my house, it was all bleep-screech-ding dial-up modems, constant drops and the incessant waiting for the bleep-screech-ding dial-up to maybe (or maybe not!) log us back onto the Internet.
Not much fun. No addiction possible.
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All addictions serve an emotional purpose. Reasons for compulsive substance abuse or any hurt, hangup or habit, are driven by emotional factors, usually feelings of intolerable, overwhelming helplessness about whatever in life makes one feel overwhelmingly trapped, powerless and out of control. It’s the rage at feeling helplessness that drives the addictive behavior, the need for the quick fix or mood changer of drugs or other behaviors. All addiction is caused by one underlying emotion: intolerable, helplessness (When one feels helpless, they feel trapped, powerless and out of control).
Addictions are continued use of behaviors despite adverse consequences. Addictions are not just substance abuses (drugs, alcohol), but also behaviors. In humans, the common denominator behind any compulsive behavior is the desire for a, “quick fix or mood changer,” for how we feel, the need to feel better, escape the trap of helplessness. Addictive behavior is never random, addictive behavior is learned, there is always a reason and a reward. Whatever is rewarded gets repeated. (Trigger-Behavior-Reward-Repeat). You can’t get addicted to a substance or behavior that doesn’t do something for you.
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Category: INTERNET: Social Networking, TV Watching, Tech Obsession & Computerized Gaming
