Teen Internet addicts more likely to self harm

On msnbc there was an article stating that researchers have been investigating today's teenagers' addiction to the internet. They have been trying to find out if thier addiction to the internet has anything to do with hurting themselves. They said that if the addiction to the internet is bad enough, it could be just as bad as an addiction to anything else, meth., alcohol, etc. After researching 1,618 teenagers from the ages of 13-18 that internet addiction can in fact, cause self harm.

The test found that about 10 percent of the students surveyed were moderately
addicted to the Internet, while less than one percent were severely addicted.The
students ranked as moderately addicted to the Internet were 2.4 times more
likely to have self-injured one to five times in the past 6 months than students
without an addiction, said Dr. Lawrence Lam from the University of Notre Dame
Australia.The moderately-to-severely addicted students were almost five times
more likely than non-addicted students to have self-injured six or more times in
the past 6 months, Lam and his colleagues from Guangzhou's Sun Yat-Sen
University reported.

I really do think this whole thing is true, although there are very very few teenagers that are actually severely addicted. I think that it would be very hard to get addicted to the internet, unless you have no mental strength and the only thing that you know is the internet. Another reason i could see this being true is if you are a hardcore online video gamer. This doesn't necessarily deal with the internet itself, but more just computers in general. It is much easier to become "addicted" to video gaming than to the internet itself.