http://www.physorg.com/news106809802.html

If, indeed, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is "... a mild to severe mental health condition that results in an urge to engage in ritualistic thoughts and behavior... " then I suppose we can regard all religion and all government as being forms of OSD. The obsessive urge to control "the people"... LOL

I'm confused - Using the net to provide a (more) satisfying social life is bad... How?

Clearly, to date physical interaction is a better technology than machine-mediated interaction, but that seems closely correlated to bandwidth, and the bandwith gap narrows daily. Given this, if people are preferring time online, does it not follow that they prefer distant people limited by current tech over local people at full bandwidth?

This thought pattern would seem to classify my Mother's remarkably intense interest in tomorrow's weather as "TV addiction", especially during hurricane season... Perhaps she would have "Seasonally Affective Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Television addiction - Weather"

See Also: wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction
-Greg

If indeed this is true then everything we do is an ocd....we have ritualistic behavoirs and thoughts everyday...most of them taught to us by society...so i guess were all a bit anxious and depressed...u know they advise to get into a routine to relieve some kinds of depression....just dosnt seem to make sense really....

Its just the psuedo-science of psychology at work again. There's always some sort of "disorder" to diagnose.

Clearly there are drugs which can alter mental status of the individual, so naturally mental health is a real issue which bears study, but lately it has gotten to the point where quite literally everyone fits the description of a "syndrome" or "disorder" of some sort, which if you are a psychologist or a drug company that is exactly what you want: more customers.