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Moms + Internet = Addiction?

By John M. Grohol, Psy.D.

In a fluff piece Parenting magazine recently published (and which was picked up by CNN below), moms are apparently “at risk” for a non-existent mental health concern. How one can be at risk for something that …

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Moms + Internet = Addiction?

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  1. The situation is now very difficult and many people do not really know what to do, but now we must get down to analyze each of us and see if we can get ahead, as everything depends on oneself, there are ups and downs but the important thing is that while there is life there is hope, a few days ago I read in findrxonline that antidepressants are the most common pills used in these cases but not many of them know the consequences …

  2. Dr. Ivan wrote his Internet Addiction post as a *joke*. It seems to be lost on most of the people who read it.

  3. To hopefully attract Ginko100 to this posting, I hope you read it all and digest Dr Grohol’s repeated dismissals there is internet addiction.

    that is how I read what he wrote.

  4. I LOVED this article. I’m so glad that I found it and read it. Staying at home is indeed very isolating. Although I ADORE my children and LOVE spending the day with them, I also miss that adult interaction. The internet helps with that for me. Maybe some people can get lost in it, but ‘addiction’???? Really???? It sounds to me that in those cases there’s probably WAY more to the story…. I definitely believe the flawed research points in this article..

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