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Life Style

The Psychology Behind Shopping Addiction

A behavioural addiction, shopping addiction is characterised by excessive purchase as a coping mechanism for unpleasant emotions including anxiety and despair. Similar to other behavioural addictions, an addiction to shopping can become a fixation that causes issues in other aspects

Social Technology

Algorithmic Addiction: Why You Can’t Stop Scrolling

What are the different social media platforms you use? How often do you use them? Do you monitor the amount of time spent on social media? Nowadays, social media become part of our daily lives. The world of likes, comments,

News

APSI to Hold a National Mid-Term CME Conference 2025 on Innovations in Addiction Psychiatry

APSI to Hold a National Mid-Term CME Conference 2025 on Innovations in Addiction Psychiatry Puducherry, India, April 11-12, 2025. The Addiction Psychiatry Society of India (APSI), along with the Department of Psychiatry at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and

Research

Impact of Internet Addiction on Youth’s Emotional Development

Since technology has advanced, the internet has become a vital component of our life in every aspect. It is evident that modern individuals use the internet to effortlessly fulfill their information demands and do daily tasks like communication, entertainment, daily

Research

The Need for an Integrative Therapy for the treatment of Internet Addiction

With the rise of technology over the past years, the prevalence of Internet addiction and Internet Gaming Disorder has grown. Internet Addiction can easily turn into Internet Gaming Disorder when gaming activity is uncontrollable and leads to negative psychosocial effects

News

PBGKR Pushes for Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hub in Andamans, Calls on LG for Backing

To counter the increasing mental health and substance abuse menace in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a charitable society, that is recognized for offering relief to the disadvantaged in the ongoing pandemic, has proposed the setting up of a Psychiatry

Health

How is Sex Addiction Treated ?

Sex addiction is a compulsive behaviour involving overwhelming desires to engage in sexual activity that interferes with daily life, relationships, and responsibilities. People develop sex addiction with easy misunderstanding and, with the power of stigma, this addiction seems as destructive

Awareness

Porn Addiction and Desensitisation to Victims

Since 2015, India has blocked over 800 pornographic sites (BBC News, 2015). However, the bigger question is whether this helped reduce traffic to adult sites. Not really a surprising answer but, no. India ranked as the third largest porn-consuming country

Education

Dopamine Addiction 

Have you ever reached for your phone without thinking about it, like a compulsion, or scrolling mindlessly through social media for hours? You’re not alone. According to Dr Anna Lembke, “We are seeing a huge explosion, in the numbers of

Health

Addiction vs Compulsion

Addiction refers to a persistent and intense urge to use a psychoactive substance or engage in a behavior which produces natural rewards, barring its detrimental consequences. An individual when consumes a particular substance or engages in an activity, activates the