I am an Internetaholic

Someday someone might be saying this in his own Internet addict support group. According to an article I've come across with in http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/08/can-the-interne.html an article describing something called "Internet addiction disorder" has been spreading around the Web. However, Vaughan Bell, a psychiatrist at King's College London, seriously argues against the proposition. Bell says that the Internet itself is not an addiction because addictions are formed through substances or activities. Since the internet is neither a substance nor an activity it cannot form an addiction. Nevertheless, the debate is far from being over as people can argue that although the Internet is neither a substance nor an activity, Internet-surfing is, and as an activity, it can lead to the formation of an addiction
If they ever settle the question of whether the Internet can be addictive or not in the affirmative, I can think of another psychosis that might be uniquely applicable to Filipinos. After confessing that "I am an Internetaholic", the next thing that'll be coming out of your mouth might be "I am a pirated-dvd-addict".