For those who don't know, when I was seven years old, I spent about three weeks in a children’s hospital after a gun accident incapacitated me. Seventeen years later, the hospital stay itself is but a distant memory—except one of the parts that I distinctly remember from that time is watching the Disney Pixar movie “A Bug’s Life” nearly every single day. The once-traumatizing “flashbulb memory” of the accident is psychologically associated with that movie. Recently, I came to...

 Internet Addiction Disorder

                -Controversy: Is being addicted to the internet inherently a bad thing? Computers can be productive but it can also get sorely in the way of your productivity.

I recently listened to a podcast by Stuff You Should Know about computer addiction. When I stumbled upon it, I had already made the resolution to get rid of my Facebook for one year. It struck me as fascinating, so I decided to write a whole post about it; I will be paraphrasing much ...