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Our drive to “stay connected” often verges on a dangerous obsession. Many of us are unable to regulate our usage of the cyber world, a fact that can bring unforeseen, and sometimes serious, consequences. A participant at one of my cyber recovery groups went into debt because he could not stop buying “currency” for Farmville, Café World, and Cityville. Another participant used her smart ph…

This blog is written by Alex, updating us on his growing awareness regarding his addictive cyber tendencies.  If you compare this with his earlier post, I think you will see an unquestionable evolution in him.

For me, the cyber world is a double-edged sword.  The sword metaphor is more than appropriate for me, due to the amount of time I’ve spent playing fantasy role playing games fantasy r…

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 usually reveal deeper issues. Providing us with a visible o…

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 through a variety of events and circumstances, I developed a massive reservoir of inadequacy. I suppose that ear…

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 also be posting tomorrow.

At about ten years of age, I reached a tipping point when the responsibilities and rigors of reality became an inconvenient interruption to my fantasy life. …