Cyber Addiction: ; Psychiatrists Find Problems Linked to Online Role-Playing Games

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Finding help The Web site www.olganon.org contains a 12-step program based on Alcoholics Anonymous. Another site, www.netaddiction.com, was developed by Kimberly Young, a psychologist who runs the Center for Internet Addiction in Bradford, Pa.

CHICAGO - Doctors didn't believe Liz Woolley when she said her son was addicted to an Internet game in which players take on the roles of elves, ogres and trolls.

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Cyber Addiction: ; Psychiatrists Find Problems Linked to Online Role-Playing Games

Sure, her son, Shawn, 21, was depressed, they said, telling Woolley that the 12-hour days of game playing, the social isolation and personality changes were a side effect rather than a cause of the Hudson, Wis., man's mental dete...

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