Msn - An addiction??

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Can not you stop writing the Messenger? Are you hooked on an RPG? Well be careful because you may be suffering an addiction. Internet gives us great opportunities, but too much of a disease. Say that two teenagers of 12 and 13 who are being treated at the Children's Mental Health and Juvenile Lleida because they are addicted to Messenger.

The uncontrolled use by adolescents of the Internet is creating for young addicts. In the Balearic Islands, has increased cases of young people from age 14 addicted to RPGs, the Messenger and other Internet programs. The symptoms are very clear, teens can not control their desire to participate in a chat and spend many hours a day writing in the Messenger. In the end, needed medical treatment for addiction that can be extended for at least a year.


So what explains the clinical psychologist Capistrano, Marta Cittadini, a specialist in this clinical center, who noted that from the age of 14 cases usually occur users of MSN, games "online" and RPGs that have addiction and not are monitored at any time by their parents, while Internet use is "very common" after 15 or 16 years.
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As he says, has come to be some young man of 12 years by addiction to the network, mainly to chat and role-playing games, which users perceive as a new way "to experience and live a virtual reality" as allowed to assume certain identities and come to take the game "as an obligation." "A large percentage of the population feels that need," he says.


He explains that there are people who participate in these games for several years and approximately five to start is when they are detected addiction. In particular, according to a survey conducted in 2007, women opt for MSN chat and how to communicate through the Internet to be a way to disguise his shyness.


In the same vein, two boys aged 12 and 13 are receiving treatment at the Mental Health Center Child and Youth Lleida. In both cases, conduct disorder of children had led to school failure, and the treatment they receive, one of them is three months while the other has seven, in a process that will last at least two years.


The center's director, Maite Utgés, notes that both had your year and a half before going to the center without supervision by parents. One of them took advantage of the tips of the family to recharge the card. The center of Lleida is treating 20 children and youth Internet addiction of which 17 have addiction Messenger, according to its director.

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