{"id":7355,"date":"2010-02-03T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:31:27","slug":"internet-addiction-can-cause-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/internet-addiction-can-cause-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet addiction can cause depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So turn your computer off <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8493149.stm\" target=\"_blank\">now<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said.<\/p>\n<p>The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were &#8220;internet addicts&#8221;, and many of these were depressed.<\/p>\n<p>The Leeds University team stressed they could not say one necessarily caused the other, and that most internet users did not suffer mental health problems.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions were based on 1,319 responses to an on-line questionnaire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least this explains some of the comments I get here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So turn your computer off now: There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said. The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were &#8220;internet addicts&#8221;, and many of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/internet-addiction-can-cause-depression\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[2092],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}