Addictions Series III

BEWARE OF TELEVISION (TV) ADDICTION

(Adapted and compiled from various sources)

Read each of the following questions carefully and answer YES or NO to each question honestly. If you answer YES to five or more questions, then you are a TV addict. Remember, if you cheat, you're only cheating yourself.

           

1.Do you watch 3 to 5 or more hours of TV per day on average?

2.Do you frequently think about television shows during the day, when not watching TV?

3.Do you find it too difficult to turn off the TV in the middle of your favourite program to do more important work?      

4.Is the focal point of your family room a television set even while eating and talking?

5.Do you insist on a separate TV set in your bedroom, though there is a common one at home?

6.Do you regularly take your meals while watching TV?

7.Do you spend more time with a television set than with your friends and family?

8.Can you live peacefully without feeling anxious, restless, or irritable for three days without watching TV?       

9.Do you ever rush home recklessly just to catch your favourite TV show, and not for spending time with your dear ones?

10.Do you need TV to relax or fall asleep after hard work of the day?

11.Do you go on changing channels after channels, looking for something fantastic to watch, and thus spend more time in surfing channels than real viewing a good program?

12.Do you feel you watch too much TV but cannot stop it?

13.Is it difficult for others to get your attention when you are watching TV?

14.Do others (especially family members and friends) criticize, comment or scold about your preoccupation with TV and its programs?

15.Have any friends or family members told you that you watch so much TV that it is interfering with your family relationships and work?

16.Have you ever tried to quit watching TV or reducing its use, but every time failed miserably?

17.When eating snacks in front of the TV, do you have a tendency to eat more than you intended?

18.Do you feel that you won’t be able to spend your time or you will be bored to death, if you suddenly stop watching TV?        

19.Have you ever missed work, school, or an important event (even social gatherings and celebrations), because you did not want to miss your TV program?

If you have said yes to at least five questions, then it is not you who are using TV, but the TV is using you. Learn how to get liberation from its slavery. [Follow up these lessons till the end of the series. You can get this article in my Blog on Creative Ministries at freddielifetips.blogspot.in//]

Addictions Series II

BEWARE OF COMPUTER AND INTERNET ADDICTION

(Adapted and compiled from various sources)

Read each of the following questions carefully and answer YES or NO to each question honestly. If you answer YES to five or more questions, then you are a computer/internet addict. Remember, if you cheat, you're only cheating yourself.

                                 

1.Is your mind repeatedly preoccupied and anxious about your work in the computer, or the previous on-line activity or with the thought of next on-line session?

2.Do you feel the need to use the computer or Internet with increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction?

3.Have you repeatedly made efforts to control, cut back, or stop computer or internet use and miserably failed every time?

4.Do you feel restless, moody, depressed, irritable or and bored when you are not at your computer or when you try to cut down or stop computer or internet use?

5.Do you get stuck to computer desk or stay on-line longer than originally intended?

6.Have you risked the loss of significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of the internet?

7.Have you lied to family members, friends or others to hide the amount of time and the type of activity you do when you use computer or internet?

8.Do you feel irritated and furious when you are criticized for the overuse of computer or internet by your family members and friends?

9.Do you use the computer or internet as a way of escaping from problems of life or to get relief from feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety, depression, responsibility?

10.Do you feel thrilled when you are on-line, chatting, or exploring the Net?

11.Are you or have you been spending more and more time at computer or on-line?

12.Have you missed very important duties, assignments or responsible tasks because of the overuse of computer or internet?

If you have said yes to at least five questions, then it is not you who are using computer/internet, but the computer/internet is using you. Learn how to get liberation from its slavery. [Follow up these lessons till the end of the series.]

Addictions Series 1

BEWARE OF ADDICTIONS!

WHAT IS AN ADDICTION?

An addiction is described as a mental obsession (uncontrolled craving or desire) for something (an object, gadget, behaviour, activity or substance such as alcohol, drug, etc.). It is further described as a compulsive and psychological or physical dependence on something. Addicts usually do anything possible to get/use the substance (alcohol, drug, etc.), or object (mobile phone, internet, etc.) they are addicted to.

Addictions can ruin your life. They will not allow you to live a life with definite aim or purpose. They will steal all your dreams for your future, for your family. In the next articles I give a self-examination test for some of the addictions such as addiction to mobile phone or cell phone, internet, T.V. alcohol, etc.

Are you addicted to mobile phone?

MOBILE PHONE (CELL PHONE) ADDICTION

Read each of the following questions carefully and answer YES or NO to each question honestly. If you answer YES to five or more questions, then you are a mobile phone addict. Remember, if you cheat, you're only cheating yourself. 

1.Do you have your cell phone with you constantly, and feel restless if it is not there right next to you even while eating, sleeping, attending meetings, praying, playing, etc.?

2.Do you fiddle with your cell phone whenever you have a little free time, or even when somebody is talking to you, or when you are attending a meeting?

3. Do you feel the need of calling someone as soon as you leave the office or home every time?

4. Do you always feel anxious about your cell phone, especially when you are unable to use it (during meeting, travel, class, prayer services or worship)?

5.Are you uncomfortable and fidgety (nervous/restless) when you are not using your cell phone?

6.Do you feel the need to talk on the phone almost all the time?

7.Do you take frequent breaks during work in order to talk to someone on the cell phone?

8.Do you usually talk on your cell phone while driving, walking, working, shopping, etc.?

9.Do you experience high levels of anxiety, stress, or insecurity whenever you are without your cell phone in your pocket or bag?

10.Do you sleep with your cell phone under your pillow or on a stool right next to the bed? Do you think that you cannot sleep well if that phone is not near you?

11.Do your friends and family members make fun of you for using the mobile phone too often and for silly reasons?

12.Do you sometimes believe your phone is ringing, but when you go to answer it or listen attentively you find it wasn't ringing at all (known as 'phantom ringing' or a hallucination)?

13.Has the number of calls made by you increased significantly day by day?

14.Do you get a shock when you see the balance in your account zeroing too fast (if pre-paid) or your bill too high (if post-paid)?

15.Are you unable to resist special offers on the latest cell phone models? Do you go on changing the models of mobile phones?

16.Have you had problems at work or school because of your cell phone use; that is did you get any scolding or warning for its misuse in those places?

17.Do your family members or friends criticize, joke, scold or forbid your too frequent and reckless use of mobile phone?

If you have said yes to at least five questions, then it is not you who are using the mobile phone, but the mobile phone is using you. Your greatest possession (mobile phone) is possessing you. You will learn how to get liberation from its slavery, if you follow up these lessons till the end of the series. These articles are adapted from various sources. Share these with all your friends by forwarding them. May the power of God be with you.

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