Web of Depression

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 8 February 2010 6:29 AM

If you spend a substantial part of your day trolling the Internet, you may want to Google the name of a good therapist says the LA Times. A new study has found that heavy Internet searchers are likely to suffer from depression. Researchers say they tend to replace real life interactions with aimless web searches.

Click here to read an abstract of the study, published in the Journal Psychopathology

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