Could Candy Crush Saga be a gateway to gambling?.
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Selfie-obsessed: teen attempts suicide over ‘perfect’ selfie
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Selfie-obsessed: teen attempts suicide over 'perfect' selfie. For all you instagram people … what is this stuff??
Growing concerns over side-effects and soaring prescription rates of psychiatric drug Seroquel – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Growing concerns over side-effects and soaring prescription rates of psychiatric drug Seroquel – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Over and above the disturbing theme, an especially disturbing quote: Seroquel, has become a blockbuster pharmaceutical both in Australia and internationally. Blockbuster…
“Saving normal” links
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Some things we should be thinking about as psychologists – these are the free versions of discussion on the topic of “Saving Normal”, the book I’ve been banging on about that is highly critical of DSM-V and the medicalisation, overdiagnosis…
Social media becoming barometer for self-harm as rates rise – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Social media becoming barometer for self-harm as rates rise – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation. So do social media act as a barometer for self harm, or do they serve as a vector for transmission of self-harm ideas/methods? Or do…
Changes to DSM-5: Internet Gaming Disorder
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APA DSM-5 (click link and see on right hand side new additions and changes) Just reading over a summary of the changes to various diagnoses in the DSM and came across Internet Gaming Disorder.. Thought it may be interesting for those looking at…
Why You Should Deactivate Your Facebook Account | Social Media
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Problem social networking site use and internet browsing
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Although there is a general consensus that individuals who experience excessive internet use, tolerance, withdrawal symptoms and negative psychological, social, academic and occupational outcomes due to internet use demonstrate problem internet use (PIU), it is not considered a psychological…
Hungry for more: the art of addictive TV
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Bingeing on TV serials (from The Age) An article in The Age on the way in which TV serials are created to be addictive and the new style of “binge watching” due to availability via the internet …
