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10 Years Ago on Psych Central

• How Much is Too Much When Spending Time Online?
  Ten years ago I wrote this editorial about the silliness of ‘Internet Addiction Disorder’ as a stand-alone diagnosis. Ten years later and, while we have more research into this phenomenon, it still stands as a ridiculous attempt to label people dysfunctional based upon arbitrary, borrowed criteria. I suspect it’s just a matter of time before a medication is approved to treat this issue. Television, Talking-to-Friends and Book Addiction disorders won’t be far behind.
  

5 Years Ago on Psych Central

• October 2002 Blog Entry
  Scroll all the way down the horribly formatted page and you’ll see an entry about how a study at the time found that women’s mental health benefits just as much as men’s in marriage. (It’s one of the few entries that doesn’t link to a dead article — a frustrating aside: why do so many websites have to change their links and not put in simple redirects to the new location of the article?) This was interesting to me since we’ve recently blogged about related issues, such as the effect of relationships related to risk of heart attacks, relationship arguing style and marital satisfaction.

1 Year Ago on Psych Central

• Abolishing Schizophrenia: In My Opinion
  Contributor Jennifer Bechdel shares a controversial viewpoint about doing away with the diagnosis of schizophrenia, but not really… Simply changing its name, to try and reduce the stigma associated with it. It’s worth another look if you missed it.
• Our Dying Cat
  One year ago, we had to say good-bye to one of our cats who was dying of chronic renal failure. We prolonged her life for 2 years, but one year later, we still very much miss her. Someday I’ll post a picture of our family of cats.
  

Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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