¶ … Internet Addictive Disorder or IAD is defined in this paper as a "maladaptive behavior surrounding the use of the Internet," and it was established earlier that this kind of disorder is not yet formally recognized, most especially among the scientific community. IAD is significant and poses a crucial problem for every individual who gets acquainted with Internet use, and even though IAD may be difficult to define and determine accurately, the problems it poses to an individual and the society around him/her can be considered serious and critical.
This paper also discussed some behavioral patterns in which one can observed an individual or even one's self if they are afflicted with this kind of disorder. Primarily, IAD is considered to be type of an obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). Another theory says that IAD is only a "phasic" behavior, which can be rationally explained because of the overwhelming effect of Information Technology, particularly the Internet, in everybody's lives. Although...
These IAD opponents stated that Internet Addictive Disorder is not entirely a disorder, since psychologists, they say, tend to label maladaptive behavior as a disorder. This is not entirely the case, they say. IAD may be characterized as a maladaptive behavior, but is certainly not a disorder, since individuals who tend to be 'obsessed' or 'engrossed' in an activity such as Internet use can hardly be identified as a disorder at all, but rather, Internet use that characterizes maladaptive behavior is just a simple case of the initial phase of Internet use, which will eventually decline once an individual's interest and use in it declined. Despite the theories proposed explaining IAD and its nature, and arguments that oppose the IAD theories, Internet Addiction Disorder, or whatever term we…
