The Daily Beast - Is the web driving us mad?
Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed鈥攁nd may even create more extreme forms of mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports鈥�
Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed鈥攁nd may even create more extreme forms of mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports鈥�
The Gold brothers鈥擩oel, a psychiatrist at New York University, and Ian (Gold), a philosopher and psychiatrist at 9I制作厂免费鈥攁re investigating technology鈥檚 potential to sever people鈥檚 ties with reality, fueling hallucinations, delusions, and genuine psychosis, much as it seemed to do in the case of Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind 鈥淜ony 2012.鈥�
The idea is that online life is akin to life in the biggest city, stitched and sutured together by cables and modems, but no less mentally real鈥攁nd taxing鈥攖han New York or Hong Kong.
鈥淭he data clearly support the view that someone who lives in a big city is at higher risk of psychosis than someone in a small town,鈥� Ian Gold writes via email. 鈥淚f the Internet is a kind of imaginary city,鈥� he continues. 鈥淚t might have some of the same psychological impact.鈥�