From The Daily Beast,
Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed—and may even create more extreme forms of mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports.
As one commenter said, “Everything in moderation.”
An update: Proof?
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From The Economist, a review of The Fix. By Damian Thompson about addiction, where the author argues that “addictive behaviour is essentially voluntary.”
Mr Thompson leaves no room for smugness. Everyone is potentially at risk from addiction, not just “coke-snorting hedge-fund managers, bulimic receptionists and absent fathers glued to World of Warcraft”. He sees no difference in principle between the high of illegal drugs, the sugar rush of cupcakes and the blinking red light on a BlackBerry that signals a new message. All involve the replacement of real relationships and real people with surrogates.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From Mockingbird:
…a couple recent studies at Ohio State conclud[e], surprise surprise, that “Young Adults Are Obsessed With Self-Esteem.” As it’s wisely been pointed out, the self-esteem movement is a losing game, regardless of how it’s played – human need is a bottomless pit…
It’s all quite odd for someone who never really focused on the subject of high or low self-esteem. There are no doubt people who are depressed and people full of themselves, but most of the people I spend my time with are balanced, unlike any person who would make the following statement and mean it:
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