PREVENTION	
	Psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg, MD is the doctor who coined the term Internet 
Addiction Disorder. Goldberg and Young  offer some ways people who believe they are 
addicted, or may be heading toward addiction, can help themselves.  First, Goldberg says, 
people must recognize patterns of overuse.   An awareness of the basic symptoms is 
important.  A key signal to this would be time spent at the computer, but also time spent 
thinking about the Internet or in activities related to the Internet.  The next step, according 
to Young, is to identify underlying problems.   Similar to other kinds of addicts,  Internet 
addicts should ask themselves what is causing them to want to escape from everyday life?  
The third step is to devise and act out a plan to work through the problem, rather than 
escape it.  Escaping  from the problem through the Internet, and effectively ignoring it, 
does not make the problem go away.  It usually only intensifies the problem.  Finally, the 
addict needs to take steps to resolve the addiction itself.  Young advises a gradually decline "
in use, until finally a "sensible" amount of time is reached (Murray, 1996).