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A recent study links excessive texting with a variety of health risks including anxiety and depression.  I have done a great many cyber activities to excess: texting, Internet chatting, surfing the web, as well as my grave addiction to video games.  I repeatedly say in my book, Cyber Junkie, that excessive and compulsive cyber behaviors… Read more

This is a guest blog written by Alex, a participant in my cyber recovery groups, and the subject of several pages of my book (159-163). In the piece that follows, Alex gets to the heart of his problem. Alex will be posting again later this week. I am not sure exactly when or how, but… Read more

This is a guest blog written by Alex, a participant in my cyber addiction recovery groups, and the subject of several pages of my book (159-163). In the piece that follows, Alex gets to the heart of his problem. Alex will also be posting tomorrow. Some people have a passion for learning, while others find… Read more

Tyler is now 19 and had a great deal of trouble in school. The rhythms of the academic environment just bored this very bright young man. His last year of high school, however, he went to a military academy, the intensity of which ignited passion and focus. He became one of the leading cadets. Upon… Read more

I am a cyber junkie, or should I say addict?  Certain types of real-time strategy video games—like Age of Empires and Command and Conquer—appealed to me to such an extent that I used to play for several hours and feel that only 20 minutes had elapsed.  I have had 50-hour binges, and used to play… Read more