Long-term continuous Internet access for more than 6 hours may be diagnosed as mental illness

Beijing, November 22 (Reporter
Li Xiaohong) recently, the "Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Network addiction" jointly developed by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and the General Hospital of Beijing Military Region passed expert demonstrations, which means that the "Internet addiction" diagnosis in the medical community in China will be standardized, for the first time, "Internet addiction" was also listed as the scope of mental illness treatment.

According to the clinical diagnostic criteria for internet addiction, internet addiction is a mental disorder caused by the repeated use of the Internet. The symptom definition has seven criteria, one of which is a quantitative indicator.The average daily network usage reaches or exceeds 6 hours, and the symptom reaches or exceeds 3 months.

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