Google Glass Addiction

Doctors report first case of desorder

What our parents tell every time we use electronic devices for too long is true: It will drive you crazy!

A 31 year old man checked in to the U.S Navy's Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP) this summer for treatment of alcoholism. He showed symptoms that doctors initially thought were solely related to alcohol, but they found out that even Goggle glass was a problem for him.

The patient had been wearing Glass for up to 18 hours a day, using it at work and taking it off when he went to sleep or bathed. Dr. Andrew Doan, head of addictions and resilience research at Naval Medical Center San Diego, told that the withdrawal symptoms from glass were much worse than withdrawing from alcohol: when the therapist asked him a question, he had this repeated movement of placing his index finger to the right sight of the face, similar to try to turn on the Glass, and he even began dreaming as he viewed through the eyeglass-like smart headset.

Internet addiction is not included in the latest version of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but Doan insists it's a real malady. Nowadays more and more technological gadgets are proliferating and he expects to see more cases of behavioral disorders connected to technology. One of them in the Nomophobia, or the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. 

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