internet addiction

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9:30pm friday through 2:20pm monday, voluntarily choose to not go on internet.

wore a watch @ work and kept phone off @ all times.

during break and lunch, read book.

the ideal would be not to be addicted to the internet @ all, but that's not realistic or reasonable or happening.

in my defense, i am much less addicted to the internet than my wild animal intellectually challenged coworkers.

Thank you for posting this. I wish I could turn everything off. I do at bedtime and I don't even own a smart-phone. Sound's like you have a good plan to keep the addiction in check. Great ! !

I don't know if I have an addition but prefer to call it "interest"..

For me internet is the only medium I can try to socialize over for now, so I'm rather dependent, not addicted.

"My internet" is bit different, for me it's this site, another (and very low-traffic) topical forum, looking up various information, very rarely (literally few times a year) I enter YouTube by proxy to access particular broadcast or some obscure TV show I know already. And maybe shopping / selling stuff.

I don't do (anti)social media, I hate reading news (except IT-related maybe), and generally whatever weirdness people do by norm on internet

I have an internet addiction the same way as smokers have a nicotine addiction. This is why belonging to a forum community is important to me. I do go on Facebook too, but on internet forums I can remain anonymous but still have a fun time. And I've found where I belong now.

It's why I'm glad I haven't gotten into posting YouTube videos, because I know that if I did start to do that I'd probably become hooked and start overdoing it, posting everything and anything and getting too carried away with myself. I don't really want to go down that road. So internet forum it is.

I'm not addicted to the Internet.
It stresses me out to be on it too much.
I tend not to be addicted because at 16 I had a devastating OCD.
Which I resolved with a lot of effort and strategy.

Staying here can be useful for people: try to do other things too, dedicate yourself to your passions outside of the Internet, without rushing to change immediately.
Extremely calmly.
A solution will be found sooner or later.

tuesday 10pm til thursday 12:45pm did not go on the internet

only used phone for taking pictures
zero phone calls
zero text messages

it wasn't hard to not go on the internet

on the other hand, on days off work, nothing to do, so waste too much time on internet

between friday 9pm and monday 11am, did not access the internet.

surprised at how easy it was. kind of paranoid i would get an urgent message that required an immediate answer, so did not go off internet for longer.

actually kind of enjoyed it.

It depends on how it's used.
Whether it's for recreational or addictive purposes.
Recreational: doing something else without it.
Addiction: it should be reduced to zero.
I don't think stopping for a while and then going back to it won't solve anything.
It would be like giving up alcohol for three days and then starting again: what's the solution?
Or worse.

Being part of a community, and if it makes sense, as Hetzer writes in the post, that's the right way to stay.
In my case: I can't turn off my phone, not even at night.
I can do without the Internet for social media, which honestly has no appeal for me.
Except for a forum: but being on it too much stresses me out in the long run, so it's negative.
As for the rest, I need it for my commitments. I'd do without everything if I could.
I don't like addictions.

It's good to have a break from it every now and then

I wouldn't say I'm addicted to it in the way other people are

It was what I expected what was going on when I first looked at mental 'help'.

Was job, hobby and all people I knew were related to it. Quitting cold turkey didn't work out, not even just outside of work.
Now I do other stuff too but nothing I am actually good at (which is ok too... prevents from going too far with those).

Found other people... covid happened. Cooped up people are dangerous and I became target again... hate people. Now trying to find some on healthier grounds.

Breaks don't solve anything if you have an addiction problem. I'll give you the example of alcohol addiction.
If the person suffering from it wants to get treatment and there's still time to do so, it's simply a matter of seeing doctors, people who, like him or her, want to quit drinking forever. But then, after a break, they get home and drink even just one, even an insignificant amount of alcohol, then they're back in the same hell they were before.

Either you stop, or you don't stop doing something; you can't make half-hearted decisions.

For me, things are black or white, and in these cases of pathological addiction, the middle ground simply shouldn't even exist.

You can tell by their constant presence in forums.
And also by their desire to always write short posts.
Just to be there.

Short posts are useful if precise, that is, if they're well-aimed at helping people.

The community is diverse, and there may be people who write them believing they're helpful, and that's fine: the intent is laudable.

It's another thing entirely to use the internet to constantly complain: I have this, I have that, I have that, in a sort of meaningless media loop.

Or threads where you ask for other people's opinions, but you don't want them to be sincere, but sugar-coated.

What's the point?


Using a forum to complain and, at the same time, if you're having a problem, trying to work on it really makes sense and is admirable.


Addiction also means wanting a life routine that's always the same.
That is: the same things methodically put into practice.

This is dysfunctional, though.


Having had a very severe OCD at 16, I know what it means to repeat the same actions slavishly.

The predominant thing is the suffering of the individual who wishes he could get out of it, but forever.

My father was a heavy smoker.

He quit smoking abruptly.

After he went to the cancer hospital for other reasons, carrying a bag full of cigarettes.

The doctor got angry.

The person close to him was about to die of cancer, among other things.

Internet addiction is like an invisible, but persistent, tumor.

In my family, there's a very military way of doing things.

Absolute rules when you want to change something that's wrong with you.

Willpower.

Mental strength to succeed.

My father felt terrible during the period of cigarette withdrawal.

After that period, he never smoked again.

Some things make me feel disgusting.
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Regarding OCD, it could be part of internet addiction.
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I came back here to meet a loved one.

But he hasn't responded for many months.

And he hasn't logged in.

I'm concerned about his good health.

Besides, since I left the forum, I couldn't get back in.

His contribution was to get me back in.

But now I feel the need to not log in again.

It will happen, I don't know when, but it will happen.

I think it will be forever.

Not to take a break.

Not an addiction for me. I would interact with normal people if I weren't bad with it. I guess chatgpt is what's left for me

I know my mom thought I was addicted to the internet & before we had home internet she thought I was addicted to TV & video-games. My mom thought I did not have a life because I was doing those things so much but it was the other way around. I was doing those things a lot because I was not really able to have a life(my mom's definition of having a life) & I was not interested in doing the other things that I could have done.

There were times when I put off doing things I needed &/or wanted to do so I could spend time online but that was related to my OCD acting up or being in a long distance relationship & obsssed with chatting with my girlfriend. Other than that my internet usage is mostly to fill free time or to help me with other interests like looking up players guides while playing video-games & listening to music I DLed.

I'm very addicted to the Internet. Most of it is music on YouTube and WP.