🌐 The Digital Double Edge: Internet Addiction and its Profound Impact on Health The Internet, the greatest tool in human history, began as a revolutionary source of knowledge, communication, and freedom. In the modern era, it has transformed into a Digital Ocean, where navigation can be both beneficial and destructive. While connectivity offers countless advantages, excessive, compulsive, and uncontrolled use has given rise to a new, serious form of dependency: Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) . IAD is not merely about spending too much time online. It is a condition where Internet use becomes the dominant activity in an individual's life, causing significant distress and functional impairment in all areas of daily life: personal, social, academic, and professional. Although it has not yet been fully included as an official diagnosis in the main diagnostic manual DSM-5 (with the exception of "Internet Gaming Disorder"), the clinical and research community recognizes i...
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What is depression? depression depression depression We live in the 21 st century, new age of technological evolution and innovation to many fields of human life, but what we see despite this evolution is the health problems that arise in humanity and especially mental health problems. Why people suffer from mental illnesses today? Depression is one of the most common illnesses in the world. Many people suffer from depression. What causes depression? Why people suffer from depression? Depression in simple words is a sad feeling that may last for days, weeks even months and many years if it is severe, the patient lose every interest for life, depression interferes in his daily life, and it is very difficult for/him her to get through it. ...
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