Hopefully the new DSM update will be more reasonable than the last. The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--essentially a directory of mental diseases. I remember a Time magazine article from a couple years ago accusing that the last DSM update had been usurped by pharmaceutical companies that drastically increased the number of disorders being covered--such that even shyness was included. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but the pharmaceutical industry had drugs to help overcome all the newly added disorders.

The problem with trying to cure psychological addictions is ensuring that there really is a problem. Societal attitudes too frequently paint the problem as being due to what a person is addicted to. Society says that something is seriously wrong with a person who looks at porn two hours a day while not considering anything wrong with watching sports four hours a day. I was looking at one religious site that focused on porn addiction and one of the highlighted articles was about a woman who had to divorce her husband due to his porn addiction. She caught him watching a porn pay show ONCE and immediately labeled him a porn addict and the site touted her bravery and misfortune to be married to such a horrible individual. I've got a brother-in-law that, at any social gathering, will walk in the door and sit on the couch and turn the TV on to watch a sports game. Even if he doesn't want to be there, it's still a crass thing to do. It's not as if I'd go to his home and find the den so that I can sit down and play on the computer instead of interacting with his family. Whatever "addictions" I might have, they're not as bad as his sports addiction.

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