The other day the topic “GROUP OF DEATH” flew through many forums, people were shocked. INTERNET ADDICTION lay at the heart of all the tragic suicides described in the article. Internet addiction, like any other addiction (alcohol, drugs, codependency in relationships) is a DISEASE OF FEELINGS. When a person, even as an adult, experiences (or is not even aware of it) a feeling of being disliked and misunderstood by his parents. If we talk about teenagers, so-called “abandoned children” often become addicted. Many people may not like what I’m about to write, but everything comes from the family, just like drugs - all the houses in the city are covered in phone numbers about the sale of so-called “mixes”, but not everyone becomes drug addicts... it’s all from lack of attention parents, from dislike by parents, and parents do not want to hear this, to realize that until they solve their personal problems, do not realize their suppressed emotions, children will not stop injecting drugs, drinking, i.e. also suicide, only slow...And parents seem to be raising their children, involved in their development (clubs, sections, tutors, music school, etc.), but there is no...true communication, heart-to-heart conversations, children do not our attention is enough. Parents have no time to communicate with them, they work a lot, get tired, and sometimes in the evening they simply don’t have enough energy to communicate with the child. And it is important for them to share their emotions with us, so that they can be helped to realize them, to experience them, but this is not the case. Nowadays even grandmothers all work, even theirs has been taken away from children... Lately I generally believe that children do not need education at all. They need our support, approval and love of their parents. Nowadays it is fashionable to put children to sleep in a separate room; this fashion came to us from Europe. Comfortable? Yes! But what happens to the child - already in the first year of his life he does not receive the acceptance and trust of the World (and his world in the first year is, by and large, Mom). A mother who should not wait for the child to start crying that he needs something, that he has some need, or that his tummy hurts. Mom must prevent this cry and respond to the first concern. By the way, many women come to me for consultations, we sort out their fates. And the most severe developmental trauma is the trauma of the first year of life, when “the world did not accept me” (very often these children were not approached at night, were not taken into their arms again. And a person develops distrust of the world, of people. Or a child at night I had a terrible dream. I ask him: “Well, did you wake up your mother? Did you tell her?” “No, I woke up the nanny.”.))) In many children now we see the orphanage syndrome. Often these are children from good, apparently prosperous backgrounds. families. But perhaps my mother got married for the second time and devotes more time to her new spouse. Or parents are completely busy with work and have no time for their children. And they pay off with expensive gifts. Children need the true love of their parents, so that they can talk to them about their feelings, desires, and mistakes. Any addiction is a person’s way of attracting the attention of his parents, his way of saying: “I feel bad!” Take the same extreme videos and extreme selfies posted on social networks - a person loses his sense of caution and is ready to do anything to make an original snapshot! This is how he tries to raise his self-esteem: “Look how they love me!” (this subtext is again addressed to parents). If for some reason a person does not receive enough strokes/likes, then he begins to feel increasingly inferior, which can lead to committing increasingly inappropriate/risky actions in order to get the attention he needs. Increased irritability, anger or depression is observed in behavior. Such people need psychological help, but they themselves do not realize this and deny the need for it, despite the obsessive desire to photograph themselves and post their photos on!