Technology overload can ruin relationships

Technology might be just as addictive as alcohol and drugs and could also wreak havoc with personal and work relationships, a leading expert said.

…Lifestyle

John O’Neill, the director of addictions services at the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas refers to it as “technology overload” when he sees addiction-like behavior in his patients using cell phones or emails.

“I think they share some of the same components as people who become addicted to alcohol and drugs in that we start to see that someone cannot really put it down and cannot stop the use of it even when there are some consequences,” he said in a telephone interview.

“We can become overloaded by technology and suffer consequences in our relationships,” he added.

O’Neill’s observations are backed up by psychologists who have classified technology addiction as an impulse disorder that can be as socially damaging as alcoholism, gambling and drug addiction.

The Internet/Computer Addiction Services in Redmond, Washington, which runs treatment programs and provides therapy, estimate that 6 to 10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in the United States have a dependency on…

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Technology overload can ruin relationships

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