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.]