Internet Addiction Support Group
This community is for people who believe they are addicted to the Internet and would like support. Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder coined by Ivan Goldberg, M.D., in 1997. It is compared to pathological gambling. Whether the Internet is causing significant stress and impairment in your life, or you would like to reduce your usage of the Internet,...
Is anyone even here, lol? Does anyone ever reply to posts? Are we all addicts, or is anyone here who actually overcame a years long addiction?
If not, then - does anyone want to be my accountability buddy? We could exchange e-mails, talk a bit about our personal problems with internet addiction and try to make a daily reminder/accauntability thing to try and help each other out. Anyone interested?
A little info about me and my problem - my problem is I think made up of two main fascets, I guess. One is the emotional/problems irl aspect and one is the fact that I... I simply got addicted. I repeated the same action too many times. I got addicted because of two reasons - laziness and a search for something interesting, enjoyable, pleasurable, a new high in that sense, a dopamine release if you will. So the key words here are laziness + a general addiction + psychological difficulties. Yeah. So I need to work both on the sheer replace-the-habit thing and on my emotional triggers. Any advice or anyone willing to be an accountability buddy - much appreciated! :)
I would like to be your accountability buddy if you still need one!!! I know you posted 2 months ago, but i would love to exchange emails and talk about our struggles with internet addiction.
a little bit about myself:
I am also 21, and a third-year undergraduate student. My biggest struggle is that I keep relapsing into my old habits, and there many days where I cannot take care of myself. I have let my behavior consume me to the point of silencing my inner voice, making me unable to pave my path to happiness.
I get what you mean about the psychological difficulties and laziness/procrastination (whatever you want to call it). The one thing I know is that the reason I keep relapsing is because I feel like I can never regain control of my life, and I am tired of feeling this way. If you are interested, hopefully we can talk, help and steer each other in the right direction.
I didn't see the notification for your reply until now! Yes, I would really love that! :)
I also can't really take care of myself fully. It's like a plight on my mental health and the too many failed attempts let doubt creep in that I won't ever do that, as you said, never regain control over my life. But I very much believe it's possible!
My e-mail is anonimchee@gmail.com , if you'd like to contact me. ^^
Sorry for the extremely long post (It has been so long since I actually talked about it to someone), and please excuse any possible mistakes (I'm not a native english speaker so... ) By the way I love languages too. (Already learning the 5th :p ) If anyone has the same concern or something close to it please feel free to talk about it with me. I'm sooo lost!!!!!
Every single sentence you wrote describes me. I used to have like all As with the occasional B and it was pretty effortless for me or when I did put in effort it was in something I enjoyed. (Explains the Bs, there were never interesting projects in Math XD) Now I need to put in more effort and guess what - I just don't. Why? Internet addiction.
I think I have some really cool videos I could link you to to understand internet addiction better. I used to think I was some weird, broken human to be like this, but now I know better.
I also watch a ton of youtube videos and dramas. XD Asian dramas by any chance? And yeah, actually checking how much time you've spent, especially during holidays is FREAKY. This one time I checked because I felt like I spent very little time on the itnernet and felt proud, it was actually 10 hours! XD I was so shocked and felt so lost.
Which languages do you speak? I speak Bulgarian, English and German, all to a pretty good level, Bulgarian is my native. I haven't yet started a fourth, but I'm really interested in East and South East Asian languages as well as Arabic and Hebrew, ah, some Indian languages are really interesting too XD too many languages to love! But my three favorites are Korean, Cantonese and Japanese. These are the three I want to learn really, really well, as close as native-like as I can.
What social media do you have? I only have facebook, youtube and an e-mail. :D I will write you a personal message on this site, check it out. ^^