就在專家們開(kāi)始組織編排下一版《心理疾病的診斷統(tǒng)計(jì)手冊(cè)》的時(shí)候，有關(guān)是否把網(wǎng)癮包括在最新的心理疾病中來(lái)的爭(zhēng)論也已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了。

    Internet Addiction?

    A quiet restaurant. Good wine. An animated conversation. Then, mid-sentence, you catch him steal a quick sideways downward glance at his BlackBerry. And the nickname CrackBerry comes to mind. You might think: for some, the Internet is an addiction.

    Well as psychology experts ramp up to publish the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a debate has begun on whether to include Internet addiction in the next big book of mental illness. This month the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an article weighing both sides.

    Kimberly Young, director of The Center for Internet Addiction, says that while it might not be a well-defined illness, those who spend excessive amounts of time online suffer the same issues as other addicts, including lost jobs, broken marriages, or financial problems. Young says if it's the cause of major issues in your life, then you have a problem.

    But Vaughan Bell, at the department of neuroscience at King's College London, says that the Internet is not an activity and so can't be an addiction. He acknowledges that people can spend excessive time online, perhaps as an escape from depressionor anxiety, but to label the use of the Web as the central problem or an addiction does a disservice. His concern is that the focus needs to be on the real illness, not on the "medium of communication."

    Of course, maybe some thought needs to be turned the many different activities one can do on the Web. Pornography and gambling, for instance, are well-known addictions.

    In any event both Young and Bell admit that research on Internet addiction is limited and inconsistent, so far. And for that reason Bell says it will be tough to support its addition to the list of new afflictions.

    網(wǎng)癮是病嗎？

    在一個(gè)安靜餐館里，你和朋友喝著上好的葡萄酒，交談也非常投機(jī)。說(shuō)話之中，你發(fā)現(xiàn)他悄悄地瞟了一眼他的黑莓手機(jī)（BlackBerry）.這讓你想起了一 個(gè)昵稱"CrackBerry"（Crack有"毒品"的意思，CrackBerry 指用黑莓手機(jī)上癮的人）.你可能會(huì)想：對(duì)某些人來(lái)說(shuō)，上網(wǎng)是一種癮。

    就在心理學(xué)家們緊鑼密鼓準(zhǔn)備出版下一版《心理疾病的診斷統(tǒng)計(jì)手冊(cè)》的時(shí)候，有關(guān)是否把網(wǎng)癮包括到心理疾病來(lái)的爭(zhēng)論也已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了。本月發(fā)表在《加拿大醫(yī)學(xué)會(huì) 雜志》（Canadian Medical Association Journal ）上的一篇文章對(duì)這個(gè)問(wèn)題的正反兩個(gè)方面都進(jìn)行了討論。

    Kimberly Young是網(wǎng)癮研究中心（The Center for Internet Addiction）的主任，他說(shuō)雖然網(wǎng)癮可能還不是一種界定清晰的疾病，但是那些在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上消耗大量時(shí)間的人與其他的"癮君子"受到同樣問(wèn)題的折磨，這些 問(wèn)題包括失業(yè)、婚姻破裂、或是經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題。Young說(shuō)如果網(wǎng)癮是你生活種主要問(wèn)題產(chǎn)生的原因的話，那么你肯定有問(wèn)題。

    不過(guò)來(lái)自倫敦國(guó)王學(xué)院（King's College London）神經(jīng)科學(xué)系的Vaughan Bell說(shuō)，網(wǎng)絡(luò)不是一項(xiàng)活動(dòng)，因此不能成為一種癮。他承認(rèn)，或許作為一種抑郁性焦慮的逃避，人們可能會(huì)在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上花過(guò)多的時(shí)間，但是把使用網(wǎng)絡(luò)認(rèn)定為"主 要問(wèn)題"或者是一種"癮",這會(huì)帶來(lái)?yè)p害。他關(guān)心的問(wèn)題是，人們應(yīng)該把焦點(diǎn)放在真正的疾病上，而不是放在"交流的媒介"上。

    當(dāng)然，或許有些人認(rèn)為，我們能在網(wǎng)上做的許多不同活動(dòng)需要改變。比如，觀看淫穢作品和賭博是眾所周知的上癮行為。

    不管怎樣，Young和Bell都承認(rèn)，到目前為止有關(guān)網(wǎng)癮的研究還很有限，而且結(jié)論也不一致。鑒于此，Bell說(shuō)，支持把網(wǎng)癮加入到新的心理疾病名單將會(huì)很困難。

    Vocabulary:

    Diagnostic:診斷的

    Statistical:統(tǒng)計(jì)的

    Disorder:紊亂；疾病

    Addiction:上癮

    Affliction:折磨；痛苦

    Psychology:心理學(xué)

    Ramp up:加強(qiáng)；增加

    Well-defined:定義明確的

    Excessive:過(guò)度的

    Neuroscience:神經(jīng)科學(xué)

    Depressionor: 抑郁的

    Anxiety:焦慮

    Disservice:損害；傷害

    Pornography:淫穢作品

    Inconsistent:不一致的