Technology Addiction
Technology Addiction
“Let’s get HIGH on TECH”
In one country, thousands of people salivating at the mouth await anxiously in line. Some have not eaten in days, have forsaken their families and are tired and listless as they wish to meet their daily need. Disappointment awaits their arrival at home, if they were to return home empty handed. Is this some African country where people await in line for rations to feed themselves or their family? Sadly, they await the arrival of a new version of technology. Yes, man has displayed an excessive dependence on technology resulting in harmful effects for each individual and society in general. “Dr. Ivan Goldberg first theorized the disease of “internet addiction disorder” (technology addiction) in 1995. There is some dispute as to whether Dr. Goldberg was serious when he came up with the disorder or was, as the New Yorker Magazine claims, attempting to play a joke on fellow psychiatrists who were also members of the online BBS (Board of Behavioural Sciences) he’d founded in 1986 specifically for mental health professionals” (Wells, 2007). Though the theory of technology addiction has not been recognized many mental health professionals have argued that it should be included in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (more commonly known as the DSM-IV) due to its addictive and harmful properties. Technology challenges man’s very existence and the harmful effects of its addiction threatens him physically, intellectually, psychologically, socially and economically.
The overuse of technological media has put a strain on man physically causing his life to be highly restricted to use of these means. Oak (n.d) states that the lifestyles of today offer little for rigorous exercise and encourages laziness and inactivity. Before time, modern technology was so popular “daily life involved a lot of physical activity and daily exercise was integrated in the routine physical
“Let’s get HIGH on TECH”
In one country, thousands of people salivating at the mouth await anxiously in line. Some have not eaten in days, have forsaken their families and are tired and listless as they wish to meet their daily need. Disappointment awaits their arrival at home, if they were to return home empty handed. Is this some African country where people await in line for rations to feed themselves or their family? Sadly, they await the arrival of a new version of technology. Yes, man has displayed an excessive dependence on technology resulting in harmful effects for each individual and society in general. “Dr. Ivan Goldberg first theorized the disease of “internet addiction disorder” (technology addiction) in 1995. There is some dispute as to whether Dr. Goldberg was serious when he came up with the disorder or was, as the New Yorker Magazine claims, attempting to play a joke on fellow psychiatrists who were also members of the online BBS (Board of Behavioural Sciences) he’d founded in 1986 specifically for mental health professionals” (Wells, 2007). Though the theory of technology addiction has not been recognized many mental health professionals have argued that it should be included in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (more commonly known as the DSM-IV) due to its addictive and harmful properties. Technology challenges man’s very existence and the harmful effects of its addiction threatens him physically, intellectually, psychologically, socially and economically.
The overuse of technological media has put a strain on man physically causing his life to be highly restricted to use of these means. Oak (n.d) states that the lifestyles of today offer little for rigorous exercise and encourages laziness and inactivity. Before time, modern technology was so popular “daily life involved a lot of physical activity and daily exercise was integrated in the routine physical
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