You spend most of your time online – are you an Internet addict?

Although more Malaysians are spending time online during the pandemic, it doesn’t mean that they are becoming Internet addicts, says clinical hypnotherapist Ko Teik Yen.

Ko believes that the added time spent online can be because of other factors such as working from home, e-learning, online shopping, or social networking because people aren’t able to go out during the movement control order (MCO) and conditional MCO.

“If you use the internet all the time at all hours of the day and night, but it doesn’t affect your daily function, you can still perform your work and family responsibilities well – then it isn’t an addiction, ” says Ko, who runs his own therapy centre treating clients with all kinds of emotional issues, including compulsive behaviour such as addiction.

“It only becomes an Internet addiction disorder when it…