Why You Are Likely To Suffer From Internet Addiction Disorder

By John Muia 

                           Photo: Two teenagers busy on their phones. (Source: pexel.com)

Internet addiction is the excessive use of the internet to a point where other life activities end up neglected. When you connect your phone, tablet, laptop or a computer to internet, you are termed to be online.  Internet is more of addition and especially is you are idle in most of the time. Consequently ,the results later are disadvantageous in regards to what makes you get stuck online.

 Below are three main causes of internet addictiveness

Online gaming and entertainments

Watching movies and playing online games is a hobby to many youths. Idle people will be tempted to watch and play games online thus ending to an addiction.

People suffering depression and shyness

Internet currently having most of it entertaining thus depressed people uses it as a reliever. It is believed that internet entertainments are cures to relationship break up depressions. Do you agree with this really? No! There are more ways of relieving a breakup .Instead use of internet on that case might lead you to its addictiveness.

Although others get addicted due to regular researches , it should not be the case. Internet addiction has several demerits and zero merits.

Hacking

Hacking is the ability to capture unauthorized access of other people  networks in order to commit crimes. Website developers are the mostly affected of this. Thus due to getting used to hacking people social media accounts, one gets addiction to internet since he/she spends most time online.

Again, when people stay housed due to harsh whether you will have to busy yourself with the internet. Idleness as a result leads to internet addictiveness. Internet addiction has a number of effects. These are some of the major impacts.

Four main effects of internet addiction

Disorder. One grows what we call, “Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD)”. This is because the person wants to spend more time online. Social media has got people of different social classes. Therefore, somebody ends up comparing lives of other people to hers / his’ in social media. As a result mood disorder might affect such a person when his/her social classes differ with that of others. Especially if he/she realizes that has a low class. 

Time wastage .Instead one should try to get preoccupied with the daily responsibilities. People, and mostly the youths spend their nights on internet thus poor sleep. Researchers have given suggestions that sleeping late tempts the youth to watch pornographic and violent images. All these amounts to time wasting. 

Eyesight affections. Frequent and rapid blinking of light on your phone screen  affects the eye focus and sense of seeing.  According to the World Health Organization, (WHO), long phone use causes ocular symptoms which are; myopia, asthenopia, and ocular surface disease, and especially to children. 

Anxiety .According to the researchers, the more you scroll on your phone in search of happenings or a certain occurrence can lead to apprehension in you. Anxiety as psychological disorder is expected if what you are receiving as a feedback to your searches are negative.  

However, having the causes and effects to internet addiction, there are remedies to avoid this .Its worth of everyone who is affected to decline it if willing .    .              

How to get rid of internet addiction (remedies)

Set time limits for spending online. 

Having a personal duty schedule of the day, is the way to go about it. Adhere to your schedule .Having included few time to spend internet. 

Get to develop other interests 

Developing concern on other involvements its better than getting addiction to internet. Spending time internet won’t benefit you, instead specialize on something productive. Certainly, whenever you try this, I assure you no disappointments.