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Re: Other Addictions? » Rosa

Posted by Mitch on August 23, 2001, at 10:18:55

In reply to Re: Other Addictions? » Mitch, posted by Rosa on August 23, 2001, at 8:28:20

> In an article by Dr. Grohol < www.grohol.com > he said:
>
> "A reward deficit syndrome can express as substance addiction, addictive relationship behaviors, communication addictions and addictions to electronic activity. But electronic addictions can include also television, recorded music and electronic gaming as well as Internet addiction."
>
> This doesn't sound like it's psychological.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Rosa

Rosa,

That is thought-provoking. However, given the widespread occurence of all of the "non-substantive addictive" behaviours mentioned by the Dr. couldn't this all be explained by just plain old *boredom*? We need to "kill time", so to speak. I read one of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s books last year, I think it was "Time Quake". In it he describes how he made a living writing short fiction for periodicals, and that was the "hot" thing to kill time with before TV. After television that just drifted away, and he decided to write novels instead. I suppose one could argue that the internet is less "passive" than television so that would represent some improvement. You do have to read and write.

Mitch


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