As our study is looking for someone who overuse their smartphone, and we try to let them experience a period which can reduce their overuse habit.But somehow, less some previours research, don't know 'how long' will much appropriate? what's name of the withdrawal addition process? can this process modified and apply to smartphone users? Wish you can help us , and please provide some evidences and literatures. thanks a lot!!!
interestingly, in adolescents who wish to decrease use of marijuana, n-acetylcysteine (NAC) decreases craving and helps them withdraw; given that adolescents are probably the most 'addicted' texters and given that NAC is a supplement that is (in most instances) good or at least not bad for one's overall health, it comes to mind.
We study at UCES(Arg) the speach acts n addicted personalities. We think that most of addicted people are "poli addicted", sometimes marijuana, alcohol, internet, smartphones, and type (like vegues) or amount of food, etc.The fixation is very early (to the intrasomatic libido ) and the defense is the floreclosure of the affect..They have an hyper cathexis of external or corporal sensoriality.They cannot feel affects , only sensations. They can t feel angish, only stress.
In my clinical experience naltrexone can help diminish addictive behaviors, but only if (1)the patient is motivated to change addictive behavior; (2)social support is available; (3)psychosocial interventions (e.g., CBT to change "cognitive schema" such as "it won't matter if I do this just ONE time) are ongoing.
Adolescent texting and sexting is hard to 'nip in the bud'....once adolescent becomes a young adult and discovers that addictive behavior from texting/sexting to sex addiction to gambling is destroying their lives, then motivation is present but it is STILL hard to change behavior.
That said, it is important to tackle this important public health problem and I applaud your effort....and don't let my remarks stop you: I do not mean to be cynical, just want to state some of issues/problems.
A read of the Wikipedia page on the topic may give you some references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorder
In my experience of treatments for smokers and gamblers, the addict people need a time for decreasing the use of substance (nicotine or alcohol or other) or behaviour (gambling or food). The amount of time required to complete remission of the disorder varies from individual to individual. I suppose, (and this topic should be studied), that, when various addictive disorders arise and alternate in the same person, there is an impaired efficiency of dopaminergic pathways. If we treat the addict with neuromodulation, (I did it with ear acupuncture, all symptoms undergo reduction with different speeds.
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