Is it enough to spend a certain quantity of hours in front of the PC to become an internet addict? According to specialists an addict is a person who cannot control himself or herself when being in contact with the thing that is the consequence of his/her addiction.

    So the person may be on line ten hours a day but it does not necessarily mean he/she is an addict, unless he/she cannot avoid doing it. That is the case of Johanna, who has admitted her addiction in the last month. She used to pass more than 8 hours per day surfing on the internet, looking for information, playing any game that appeared there. Many things were left behind because there was an imperious need of searching every site on the internet. She is married and her marriage was threatened because of her addiction. She had no time for house-working, for paying attention to her husband and working at a well-known company specialized in agrochemicals. As a consequence, she was sleepless during the nights because she was missing the news on the web.

    She is an example of how an internet addiction can put in danger your life, as any other does. The first step is to know we are at a serious problem if we have a friend or relative that is going through this. Then the addicted person has to be aware of that situation, because if not he/she is not going to be in conditions of starting any treatment. Extensive attention has to be paid in order to support the person, due to the vulnerable condition he/she may be at.

    If you do not know how to manage a sensible situation like this one, there are several centers that can help you and guide you to start the rehabilitation. Whether we are internet addicts or not, it is essential to take into account that there is a certain risk when spending so much time surfing the web.

    投入一定數量的時間坐在電腦前成為一個網蟲這有必要嗎？根據一些專家的認為，這些上癮者是由于他們跟接觸事物的時候無法控制自己從而就導致了他們上癮的結果。

    一個人有可能花費十個小時泡在網上這并一定就意味著他/她就是網癮患者，除非他/她無法避免要這樣做，約翰娜就是這樣一個案例。她在上個月承認自己患上了網癮，她過去每天都會花上8個小時上網，尋找信息，玩那些出現在網上的游戲，很多事情都被拋在了后面，因為在網上搜索每個網頁成了她迫切的需要。她已經結婚了而且她的婚姻受到了網癮的威脅，她沒時間去做家務，去關注她那在一家著名的專門從事農業化肥生產公司上班的丈夫。作為結果，她在晚上變得失眠，因為她迷失在網上的這些信息里。

    約翰娜只是一個網癮會把你的生活置于危險之中的個例。而其他人要做的第一步就是知道如果我們的朋友或者親戚在經歷網癮那面對的就是一個嚴重的問題，其次上癮者必須要意識到這個情況，因為他們非常容易處于弱勢條件下，由于沒有得到一定條件的治療或者沒有廣泛的關注去支持他們。

    如果你不能明智地處理像這樣的情況，這些要點可以幫助和指導你去開始康復，不管你是否已經染上網癮，這都是必不可少的考慮，因為每天花這么多時間掛在網上是很可能有染上網癮的風險存在。