Treatment of addiction to technologies and the Internet

Internet addiction is linked to addiction to new technologies, and it is likely to be associated with mobile addiction in many cases, even having a strong link with mobile addiction as an associative tool.

The use of the Internet generally makes life easier in the digital age, but the problem arises from the harmful use that can be made. In other words, internet addicts arise as a consequence of the excessive habit of the Internet.

Spending more time on the Internet than it requires, even getting excessively involved, even creating a personality or image to which a person can become addicted, generates an unreal double life, which can generate disorders.

The majority of patients associated with the pathology of Internet addiction are young people in the adolescent stage, when they are most vulnerable.

It is also worth mentioning that increasingly, society allows the entry of adults into the circle of this pathology as society develops the behavior.

In Spain, it is estimated that between 6 and 9 percent of regular Internet users can generate an addiction to the Internet or social networks.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT

The psychological and sociotherapeutic treatment of conduct disorder due to the abuse of the Internet, new technologies or mobile phones, manifests themselves in different contexts, as different as the plurality of the human being, in addition to the environment, their personality, the problems they have and their way of dealing with them.

That is why psychological guidance is going to be so important in this therapeutic process. The treatments we carry out from our Addiction Center respond to an individual evaluation, with a personalized program, which aims to improve the patient’s absolute improvement through the most effective intervention strategies.

PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT FOR INTERNET ADDICTS

The use of pharmacology will be decided based on the severity and impact of the problem on the life of the person suffering from this pathology.

In this sense, perhaps because they are more directly related to biological processes, cognitive distortion, deficits in impulse control, affective instability and the level of anxiety will be controlled by the doctor in parallel to the psychologist.

As in other behavioural addictions, internet addiction can be related to high levels of sadness, anxiety or their organic manifestations (uncomfortable palpitations, feeling short of breath, “knot in the stomach”, sweating phases…).