Internet addicts should be considered mentally ill

Internet addiction is a real mental illness because it exhibits four characteristics:

The online addicts lose the sense of time or neglects basic needs like sleeping and eating.

Addicts also feel anger or depression when their computers are inaccessible.

Online addicts continually buy better computer equipment or software.

Online addiction has serious negative repercussions like social isolation and poor achievement.

Yep, I have all 4.

I'm two sandwiches short of a picnic.

Plus in addition to the 4 symptons:

I chew the furniture

I sometimes bark at people

I have a squeaky bone

I dig big holes.


Yep - 4 tortoises short of an igloo.

Shut that squirrel.