Finding time means competing with Email, Google and Amazon for your attention. What are ways you can keep your focus where you want it?
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Learn the 14 ways in which you can help make the Internet a safer place for you and your family. You teach your children to look both ways before crossing the street. You tell them not to talk to strangers. But do you really know how to teach them to safely use the Internet? In this book, Linda Criddle, a leading child safety expert, offers a practical education about what is safe, what is not, and how taking a few precautions can help your children avoid putting th… More >>
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Essential strategies to keep children and teens safe online
As our children and teens race down the onramp to the Information Superhighway, many parents feel left behind in the dust. News stories about online sexual predators, child pornography, cyberbullies, hate groups, gaming addiction, and other dangers that lurk in the online world make us feel increasingly concerned about what our children are doing (and with whom) in cyberspace. In Cyber-Safe K… More >>
Many anxious parents see their teenage sons and daughters spend endless amount of hours in front of the computer and wonder if they should get worried, if their teen is developing an internet addiction. The answer is: not necessarily. Some teenagers will not get addicted to the internet no matter how many hours a day they spend surfing the web.
An internet addict teenage boy reported feeling anxious whenever he went outside with his friends. Obsessive thoughts like “I must go online now” and “I must check my new messages” were constantly bothering him. This is not uncommon, as many internet addicts are teenagers. These teenagers, although spending many hours in social media sites like Facebook, are prone to feeling depressed and lonely. In fact, the internet usually helps teenagers escape real life and not deal with it.
Exposing people to their emotional experiences helps them to accept and regulate their emotions by attending to how they process experiences.
New findings demonstrated how emotional patterns and responses affect regions of the brain. For example, brain-imaging studies show that cognitive reappraisal and other emotion-regulation techniques modulate the response of both the amygdale (brain structure associated with fear) and prefrontal cortices (regulate emotions and impulse) in ways that reduce negative emotions, increase positive emotions, or both.
Further research showed that people with emotional disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety, and phobias) experience their emotions in similar ways. In essence, they enter a downward spiral in which they cannot accept an initial negative emotion; they try to get rid of the emotion; and they have trouble regulating and letting go of the emotion. Dr. Janetzke combines several techniques to help clients to build coping skills in order to accept, let go of and move on from their negative emotions.
For years Dr. Janetzke has successfully treated emotional disorders using a variety of techniques such as psychoeducation, emotional awareness training, cognitive appraisal and reappraisal, modifying emotion-driven behaviors and emotional avoidance, internal somatic situation exposure, relapse prevention, and present-focused emotional awareness training.
Internet addiction
The first residential treatment center for Internet addiction in the United States opened its doors in Seattle. Internet addiction has already been taken seriously in China, South Korea, and Taiwan. Pathological computer use can include obsessive use of video games, texting, Facebook, eBay, Twitter and any other obsessive use of technology. The effects of internet addiction have led to loss of a job or marriage, car accidents while texting, and death, generally stemming from a blood clot associated with being sedentary.
The DSM-5, the updated version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will be out in 2013. This is the bible of mental health professionals for making official medical diagnoses of mental illness in its various forms. It has huge ramifications for all mental health patients since health insurance companies base coverage allowances and policies on the DSM. Whether an individual qualifies for disability are answered based on the DSM.
For most of us, this discussion does not become relevant until we need help from a mental health professional. Anecdotal accounts, seem to point to a growing problem of Internet related addictions and clinics for handling Internet addiction are popping up worldwide. China and Korea even decalred Internet Addiction to be their top health concern. And with place like “ReStart” opening up – a Washington based rehab for Internet addicts, the fact that there are patients heading there at $14,000 a stay, means something is going on. Read the rest of this entry »
