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Overeaters Anonymous and Sex Addicts Anonymous are two organizations that have been grappling with this, successfully, for some time. Especially in the Overeate
by bdamm 9y ago
Overeaters Anonymous and Sex Addicts Anonymous are two organizations that have been grappling with this, successfully, for some time. Especially in the Overeaters Anonymous case, it's obvious that you can't stop eating, and must therefore must define some boundary between healthy eating and compulsive gluttony. I suspect many "Internet Addicts" likely already have an idea of what level of use is unhealthy, so that's a reasonable basis for an individual to begin with. Defining a metric for society at large will be much harder.
- euyyn 9y agoGood point. The case of over-eating does have the physically-visible effects, but sex addiction has not, so it's a very close situation.
- tbabb 9y agoFor the internet, there are some tools for this. I find it very helpful to decide ahead of time how many minutes a day it's acceptable to waste on "addictive" internet sites, and then use extensions (StayFocused for Chrome is very good) to block them after that amount of accumulated time has passed. Helps by taking away some of the need to exercise pure willpower, without completely excluding entire parts of the internet from you.
- waterlink 9y agoThat is an amazing approach. Thank you! I'll try the plugin.