Issue: 2016, Vol. 21, No. 2

Starchenkova A. M., Ursu A. V., Khudyakov A. V.

COMORBID DISORDERS IN YOUNG PERSONS WITH INTERNET ADDICTION

Keywords

internet, dependence, addiction, depression, personal disorder, psychic diseases, comorbidity

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The authors presented the data of scientific reports which described the connection of internet addiction with depression (including suicide attempts), syndrome of attention deficiency with hyperactivity, bipolar affective disorder, sleep disturbance, social phobia. These conditions are characterized by motivational regulation disorder and it is allowed to be considered as the main risk factor for internet addiction and other kinds of dependence. At definite stage the addict might have some wish to get rid of addictive realization but in this case he found himself in another one (alcohol abuse, abuse of drugs or other psychoactive preparations, sexual addiction, workaholism, pathologic attraction to gambling games). Personal peculiarities of persons with various forms of addictions are described namely fatiquability, excitability, reticence, irritability, lowered self estimation. Some authors attributed high aggressiveness to them. Personal disorders such as narcissism, boundary mental disorders, anti-social behavior) are spread among internet addicts.

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