What is Internet addiction syndrome?

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Internet addiction syndrome is a new form of mental illness. Due to the lack of social communication and interpersonal communication, the patients regard the network world as real life, break away from the times, and have no common language with others, resulting in loneliness, depression, mental retardation, low self-evaluation and other symptoms, and even suicide ideation and behavior. In medicine, this symptom is called "Internet Addiction Syndrome", or IAD for short.

What is Internet addiction syndrome?

Studies have shown that long-term Internet use can increase the level of dopamine, a chemical in the brain, which makes patients highly excited for a short time. They can't extricate themselves from being addicted to the virtual world of the Internet, but their decadence and depression are more serious than before. Over time, these effects will bring about a series of complex physiological and biochemical changes. At the initial stage, the patient is only mentally dependent on the Internet, eager to surf the Internet and play games, and then it is easy to develop into physical dependence, such as loss of appetite, restlessness, etc., and even lead to heart disease and other diseases, requiring in-depth psychological counseling.

Network operation time out of control, and with the increase of fun, can not stop, difficult to extricate themselves. Patients often indulge in online free talk or online interactive games, and thus ignore the existence of real life, or no longer satisfied with real life. At the beginning, it is only a mental dependence, eager to surf the Internet, and then it can develop into a physical dependence, manifested as depression, dizziness, shaking hands, fatigue, loss of appetite and so on. The reason is that IAD patients have been on the Internet for a long time, which makes the brain nerve center continuously in a high excited state, resulting in abnormal increase of adrenaline level, hyperactivity of sympathetic nerve and increase of blood pressure.

These changes can cause a series of complex physiological and biochemical changes, especially autonomic nerve disorders, hormone imbalance in the body, will reduce the immune function and induce a variety of diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal neurosis, tension headache, anxiety, depression and so on. At the same time, due to the long-term eye gaze at the computer screen, the photoreceptor rhodopsin on the retina is consumed too much. If the synthetic substance vitamin A and related proteins are not supplemented, it will lead to vision loss, eye pain, fear of light, dark adaptation and so on.

matters needing attention

The main reason for children's addiction to the Internet is that there is something wrong with their parents' educational methods. The love of parents is mostly manifested in the material generosity, while ignoring the spiritual and emotional care. In family education, we should never give up on matters of principle, tolerate and understand small things, and communicate with children like friends. We must pay attention to the timing, angle, tone and expression of children's education. In fact, the truth in the world is very simple in the final analysis, but how to make children accept it with conviction is very learned.