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What is a good title for my essay about computer addiction, this is a personal and non-fictional event...I just can't think of a creative title, any ideas?

Computer Craze

2009-02-11 19:22:01 by Anonymous

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i realized that i have a huge problem: i've been procrastinating way too much and i stay up until one am trying to do my work and is so tired the next day.

every time i do something, my attention wanders, in class at home etc. if I'm on the computer typing my essay, i go online and it seems like i just stare at the screen so much i don't even notice 2 hours has passed.

also i think i have a really short attention span..that's why i can't finish my work..HELP!

any suggestions??

When you find yourself just starring at the screen, get up and stretch, maybe get something to eat or drink, splash cold water in your face, etc. It helps.

2008-06-04 17:05:00 by layla

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Right when I get home from school I sit down at the computer and start doing my homework (research, essays, etc.) and generally don't get off the computer until 10 or 11 at night except for dinner, taking the dog out and the likes. I'm doing homework the whole time, but my problem is that when I need to take a break I just stay on the computer and go on YouTube, Yahoo, etc. It's driving me insane because I'm very athletic and want to get out and go running, but I just... don't. It seems like more of a time management problem than anything else. How can I stop going to the useless websites and start just focusing on homework when I'm on the computer?

First, this question of yours does not by any means constitute a mental health issue.
But moving on, you should make a schedule. Write down (on a piece of paper NOT on the computer) how long it takes you to do your homework. Now, allot some time for that. For example, do you homework from say 5-8. Then go jogging or whatever it is you like doing (that does not include electronics). But you have to turn off your computer first, not just hibernate/sleep it, which will help you not relapse. Also take breaks in between your homework. Eat, cook, or just take a walk/run. One more thing, try to make a list of the things that absolutely REQUIRE a computer. If you're doing an essay, for example, write a rough draft by hand, then do some further research on the computer to strengthen it then type it and you're done. Math homework, for example, doesn't require a computer.


Good Luck

2009-04-17 12:45:55 by Sweet Voltaire

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I'm doing this for an essay

it depends what your doing on the computer ; )

2008-07-15 17:33:26 by doirbravo

A person has to write an essay on a particular subject. While writing this essay they begin to spend more and more time on it, fretting over every detial, rewording sentences and parargraghs that just don't sound right. Their behavior resembles that of any perfectionist writer in the beginning, but soon this person begins to neglect other daily responsibilities and literally cannot peel themselves away from this essay.

It snowballs into something bigger, and even when they finish the essay, they have to write more, to the point where everything else in their life suffers from their neglect; their job, their family and friends, because they are always at the computer writing, as if all of their self worth and reason for living lies in their writing.

What does this sound like to you?

Actually, it could more likely be neither obsession or addiction. What this sounds like to me is transference.

Obsessions and addictions just don't suddenly arise through one incidence like having to write an essay. They both usually develop gradually over a period of time until they manifest themselves as you're describing now.

However, transference can occur instantly as a way (an emotional outlet) to deflect other issues in a person's life. An example: You're very unhappy with your home life. So instead of dealing with this unhappiness on a realistic level you deflect the emotional stress such feelings create by sinking yourself into a project that lets, even forces, you to ignore the real issues that make you unhappy.

Some drink because they are unhappy, some do drugs for the same reason, both because they can't or won't deal with the real reasons why they're unhappy. Other people sink themselves mentally and emotionally into some job, some task or project that takes all their attention.

Paying an unhealthy amount of attention to something is often a way to avoid dealing with issues that the average person doesn't want to deal with. This is not so much an obsession as an avoidance (transference) tactic.

2008-03-12 01:00:22 by Pleasantly Plain