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Originally Posted by Ammi

..I think a really hard part of 'addressing' any addiction is to realise that you have one or that, that's what you feel it is..and you've obviously given it thought and decided that you yourself want to make changes in your life, so for you those will be very positive and something that will make you feel good about yourself..?...and that in itself will give you more and more confidence, as you feel proud with yourself ...and that will help you to achieve what you want to...for me personally, setting myself a 'goal' for something always helps...sort of giving myself a date/deadline and a task etc that I want to achieve by then..and also not making that 'achievement' too taxing/difficult..just a little at a time..step by step....

..I have to go offline for a little while but I'll look and see if I can find some advice sites that may help you and be worth looking at later, ok.....

Thank you Ammi. I've just done a quick search on internet addiction and it is largely dismissed as a fad, which is a little disheartening. Its very real, and i'm the poster boy for it.

I can sit and say that i'm going to actually do my shopping physically and so on, but I know I wont when it comes to it, because its so easy just to log onto tesco and do it sat here. Unless someone physically stopped me from sitting here all day, i'm not gonna change and they'll probably find me at 45 dead infront of the PC covered in Guiness and Pizza logged onto TiBB

There is no doubt the Internet is a major issue for me, and as other sites suggest it may be a symptom of another condition, which I agree with. I am on medication for anxiety. But again, sitting here just acts as another convenient crutch.