3 Therapy For People With Gadget Addiction

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Due to the ever-increasing penetration of gadgets, addiction or addiction cases are increasingly being discovered. For that, it's good you know what therapy to deal with addiction to gadgets.

A person with an addiction tendency requires psychotherapy and even pharmacotherapy to reduce the level of addiction and impact experienced.

Quoted from the press release of the Ministry of Health, Saturday (7/7/2018), there are three types of therapy used by psychiatric practitioners to handle addiction cases, namely:

1. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
   Medical psychiatric specialist Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (FKUI) Kristiana Siste said people who have dependence on something, he already has a certain mindset. To that end, CBT is used to modify negative thoughts in order to be substituted with a more positive mindset.

"He already had the idea that by playing the game I'm happy, if I want to be happy I have to game. Well, to modify his mind, we replace using this method, "he said.

1. Motivational Interview (MI)
   This method is more suitable for pre-adolescent and young adult patients. Given the decision-making or autonomy in therapy is entirely in the hands of the patient.

2. Behavior Therapy
   This method is done by modifying the environment to decrease the motivation of the patient to inhibit his dependence. One example, for patients who are addicted to gadgets and the internet.

Patients need to make rules, for example using gadgets only in the family area or none providing Wifi facilities in the rooms.

"Play the game to be happy. Well, patients need to be diverted to various forms of fun activities or activities. Need to explore real activities that can make fun for example camping or cooking, "said Siste.

The treatment approach is only given to patients with co-morbid, for example with anxiety disorder or depression.