Internet Addiction: Signs You Need to Shut Down (Mental Health Guru)


 

Internet Addiction: Signs You Need to Shut Down (Mental Health Guru) – We all love the internet, but could a favorite pastime turn into a full blown addiction? mental.healthguru.com

 

Study: Porn Addiction Increasing as Technology Proliferates Access

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These self-help / mutual-support groups are well-liked and effective at helping sex addicts achieve and maintain sexual sobriety. Internet monitoring or Internet filtering (designed to keep children from seeing adult images and content) helps reduce …
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Issue of the Week: Women, Beware

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We've seen the ads everywhere—on buses and bus shelters, on billboards and on the Internet. They usually feature a woman in soft-focus, worried about her pregnancy, and will refer that woman to a 24/7 help line, often with offers of free pregnancy …
Read more on Express Milwaukee

 

Food Addictions (Part 1)

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Do giving in to cravings and eating your favorite foods help you reduce negative emotions and increase pleasurable thoughts? As time goes on, does this not work as well as it use to? If you answered to these questions, you might be food addicted …
Read more on Yeshiva World News

 

Match-fixing: How gambling is destroying sport

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The Football Associations need to establish problem-gambling counselling and a clause in the players' contracts that allows them to seek help for addictive behaviour without it damaging their professional success. They need to back this up with a full …
Read more on BBC News