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Study: People Who Are Constantly Online Can Develop Mental Disorders
CHARLOTTE (CBS Charlotte) — Get off that computer. A new study finds that constantly being online can affect your mental health.
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg recently studied more than 4,100 Swedish men and women between the ages of 20 and 24 for a year and found that a majority of them who constantly use a computer and mobile phones can develop stress, sleeping disorders and depression.
Sara Thomee, lead author of the study, said there was a “central link” between computers and mental disorders.
“High quantitative use was a central link between computer use and stress, sleep disturbances, and depression, described by the young adults,” Thomee said in the study. “It was easy to spend more time than planned at the computer (e.g., working, gaming, or chatting), and this tended to lead to time pressure, neglect of other activities and personal needs (such as social interaction, sleep, physical activity), as well as bad ergonomics, and mental overload.”
Callmelennie
July 18th, 2012
And these problems can become especially acute if you spend too much time online learning what Obama is doing to our country
hanoverfist
July 18th, 2012
Thats soooo not true.
http://wastenomore.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/homer-simpson-drooling.gif
Anonymous
July 18th, 2012
How about constantly on TelePrompTer?
Moe Tom
July 18th, 2012
I agree. I’m a total wreck. But it sure beats working on the lawn in 98 degree weather.
m00pa
July 18th, 2012
… maybe for the young, I’m proud to say I had my metal illness well before the internet!
Jack Daniels
July 18th, 2012
@Callmelennie,
Indeed!, I can attest to the fact that my overall positive mental attitude has been negatively affected in the last three years due to reading about all the crap that has taken place under this current administration.
Jack Daniels
July 18th, 2012
I need a drink….again
cfm990
July 18th, 2012
So that’s what’s wrong with me.
Doc
July 18th, 2012
Cardigan, did you post this for anyone in particular?
I know my mental attitude would improve if I read that barryboy was under arrest by the military.
norman einstein
July 18th, 2012
What a load of bullshit.
This is from the same Swedish progtard school that gave Hillary Klintoon an honorary doctorate.
“Correlation” does not imply “causation”. Duh!
Not surprisingly we find this earthshaking article is by SeeBS.
Diann
July 18th, 2012
That’s outrageous!
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! DON’T YOU SEE I’M COMMENTING!
Oh, God will these voices ever SHUT THE HELL UP?!
Um. What was I saying?
Jack Daniels
July 18th, 2012
@Diann,
God, I actually envisioned you going hysterical posting that!!
LMAO
NoMoBo
July 18th, 2012
Ruh-roh. Hits too close to home.
CrustyB
July 18th, 2012
Being online all the time doesn’t affect your OMG THE KAISER IS TRYING TO STEAL MY STRING!
Boobie the Rocket Dog
July 18th, 2012
Sorry. I’m not Swedish. I don’t plan on being Swedish, so who gives a sh_t if they’re mentally disordered or not?
Billy Fuster
July 18th, 2012
#@!!%#@!!%!
Jethro
July 18th, 2012
That explains why I look like this:
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Jethro
July 18th, 2012
…crooked arrow is pointing to my avatar…
MAJMike
July 18th, 2012
ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT ABOUT ME, I’LL KILL ‘EM!!!!!!!!
Opps. Time for my meds.
iamthegps
July 18th, 2012
All my invisible friends are telling me that they’re wrong. And that I should light more things on fire.
willie t
July 18th, 2012
well that’s it for all you citizen-journalists posting to your blogs… i get a sense that the third week of august, the bummer people will be shutting down the webbies for your own safety
it’s like being able to kill your baby for your mental health
obtw, didn’t that sacrificial ‘professor’ that said anybody who doesn’t believe in globull warming has a mental illness?
check your list of the 45 goals of the commie agenda — pretty sure calling anthing a mental illness is just the start for verification for
internmententertainment at an reeducation campStirrin the B.S.
July 18th, 2012
I Am So Depressed.
Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel, “Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land.”
Nearly 75 years ago, (when Welfare was introduced) Roosevelt said, “Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the Promised Land.”
Today, Congress has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels and mortgaged the Promised Land!
I was so depressed last night thinking about Health Care Plans, the economy, the wars, lost jobs, savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc …. I called a Suicide Hotline.
I had to press 1 for English.
I was connected to a call center in Pakistan. I told them I was suicidal.
They got excited and asked if I could drive a truck……
we’re all screwed…..
….I now I found out that it’s all from my computer – I feel better already.
HooHooNayNay
July 18th, 2012
This is a “chicken or the egg” argument.
Zilla
July 18th, 2012
Pfft. Swedes. Europeans are weak, we’re fucking AMERICANS, damn it! They can take my computer when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
RANDO
July 18th, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs&feature=player_detailpage
!
Wyatt, Insensitive Jerk
July 18th, 2012
I really resent and disagree with the conclusions in that article.
And so do I.
Me too.