Monday, February 25, 2008

Being cyber/internet addict? Be careful!

You know drug addiction. But what is internet or cyber addiction? You may also call it being over cyber crazy. This happened to me. In this article, I am going to let you know you about how this happened to me, effected my health, lifestyle and I wasted my time but latter I managed to return to normal life( Yes, I call that life abnormal). This may happen to anyone.

am very crazy about technologies. From the time I entered into the world of cyber, I started being attracted more and more day by day to the world. This was good thing in one way. Because the more I was crazy, the more I discovered new things and increased my knowledge. That habit turned negative when I started to spend more than 10 hours continously without leaving the chair even if I didn't have anything special things to do. Everyday I used to spend at least five hours continously and didn't have attention whether I ate, drank, slept, went to college and many more. I termed this habit addiction because it had effected me psychologically

I use to spend my time on the internet every day and if I didn't sit before computer and browse internet one day, then different type of wave used to run in my body and mind. I used to feel as being unsatisfied of one or another thing and be offmooded. This was not only. After spending some time on the internet, I didn't use to have desire to leave the computer. My mind used to tell me that you must stay here. If you do not have anything special to do, just look for different sites by searching Google. What happened to me next then?

I started having back problem, eye problem, unbalanced sleeping, untimed meal and bad health condition. This also had effected my daily works- sometime absent in my classes, no interest to do other things than browsing internet, and negative effect in my whole lifestyle.

But I always take care of myself and look for immediate solution to any problem. My relatives and friends also raised concern about my changing habit. Then, I used different ideas some by consulting with others and some from myself and after sometime I totally regained my origional state and became happy. Here I am outlining what I did:


prior to sitting before computer, I fixed the things I had to do with approximate time for each one and left the computer with force initially.


After saparating time for each task, I made strong belief that I would stay for only separated time. I felt hard in the beginning but improved day by day. I decreased the time I spent on the internet by half an hour a week. I had done this before but was not concerned about the negative effects then.


I tried making myself busy with other daily works and with my study.


It is necessary to make strong determination that you should change your habit.
Some people have to spend most time of the day on inetrnet. I do not want to called them being internet addiction.

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