While compulsive gambling is only beginning to be addressed by mental health professionals, they must now face a new affliction: Internet addiction.
"The problem isn't widespread but we know of serious cases in which teenagers don't leave the house, don't have interpersonal relationships, and have been isolated in front of their computer screen for the past two or three years, and only speak in the language of the characters they play with in network video games," says Louise Nadeau, a professor at the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology.
"In a few years we'll have couples in therapy because the Internet will have become their main occupation."More...
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