Showing they have some awareness and perspective of what they are doing. One common feature of hardcore addiction is an almost unrelenting, solid denial that there is a problem. Nevertheless, addiction is a serious matter, regardless of its nature. When a player begins to flunk out of school, lose a job or is divorced by a spouse because they cannot resist their virtual land, they are pathologically addicted. Viktor Brenner, of Marquette University, advises that personality disorders, family problems, quality of life, and disfigurements be further explored.
Many psychologists believe so.
Looking at Internet addiction as an escape from real life, most people will view it as negative. However, I am finding that the more time we spend on line, the less implicit and explicit societal boundaries hinder us, and the more in tuned with ourselves we become. Maybe the fact that in game relationships make obsolete most real life boundaries is a superior progressive step. Or, perhaps we are becoming less addicted to real life and therefore a threat to those who view our virtual worlds as phony. In the same sense, Astronauts discover unknown boundaries and anomalies daily.