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A NEW FACEBOOK addiction service has been launched in Dublin.
Psychologist Jason O’Callaghan is behind the initiative, which is being offered at the D4 Clinic.
O’Callaghan said that the service is necessary as “people are literally online constantly”.
“People are becoming increasingly addicted to social media because it is so freely available, even smokers or alcoholics can’t do it all the time but those addicted to social media live on their phones.”
O’Callaghan told TheJournal.ie that he decided to set up the service as he became aware that his clients were increasingly dependent on social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
He noted that people “worry they’re going to miss something if they don’t check in [online]” and get stressed when they can’t access social media.
O’Callaghan said that the issue had reached “epidemic proportions” and was leading to several other issues such as an increase in cyber bullying and weight gain.
People don’t do anything any more, they don’t walk – they spend all their time sitting at their computer or on their phone.
Speaking at the launch of the service, O’Callaghan said that people’s mental health is “being damaged due to the barrage of images and false reality that they are seeing online”.
Most have more virtual friends than real friends and cyber bulling is becoming more frequent on social media, especially amount young people.
The clinic hopes to help people with social media addictions through counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy and clinical hypnotherapy.
Before becoming a psychologist, O’Callaghan was a showbiz diarist and singer in a Rat Pack tribute band.
In May he unsuccessfully ran in the local elections as a Fine Gael candidate in the Crumlin/Kimmage constituency in Dublin.
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why all the fuss leave them up there
@PW: I think that’s what they did, removed at 8am, just in time for breakfast
@PW: gotta make way for Santa’s sleigh
Should spray them with water and leave them over night. Wouldn’t need any so called special trained staff to get them down then.
@Seán Dillon: that’s my brother your talking about
@Seán Dillon: i second that.
@Martin Scaldbag: and what
@Martin Scaldbag: Nobody cares
@Seán Dillon: Or just put some thought into designing prison roofs so it’s not possible to stay up there. I.e., steep roofs, roof access only possible with scaffolding or cherry-pickers, no parapet to stop you sliding off, etc.
@Conall: yeah good idea, unfortunately most of these prisons are old and retain the old structures for imprisonment.
@Seán Dillon: unfortunately its now considered inhumane to use water on prisoners, load of nonsense i know…
As a member of the EU we should lobby to be able to transfer Prisoners on disciplinary to other Prisons throughout the EU. So the likes of those convicts that assault staff, or as in this case endanger staff having to get them down, could be shipped off to a Romanian, Bulgarian or Baltic States Prison etc for a few months. A form of Shenigan treaty for Prisons. You could bet they would sing a different time when they returned.
@Mick.: would you not have Romanian and Bulgarian prisoners constantly acting up so they could stay at mountjoy hilton
@Darren Byrne: There are much easier Prisons to choose from in Scandinavia. But those States I mentioned know how to deal with their own disruptive convicts far more effectively than we do. The “Touchy Feely Bleeding Hearts” have very little input into their Prison Systems.
@Mick.: welcome back
Someone should have told them the magic sleigh is coming tonight to fly them away
@Kieran Monaghan: doesn’t take very much imagination to think up of a few ways to get them down quickly! And the specialist’s wouldn’t be needed either!
Specially trained negotiators? I hope the conversation was brief ‘ get the f… down or f…ing freeze.
They were prob just fixing their sky dish (that is mugs are paying for)
Get their mammies to come tell em get down like they did in Spike Island way back or just leave em dere.
Shame they were “Safely” removed….
Why the Carolina flack comments closed
@Karllye kripton: cause she beat 7 shades of shite out of her boyfriend and now she’s being prosecuted for it.
@Adrian™: that’s what he was into‘allegedly’
@Adrian™: I’ll bet if the shoe was on the other foot the media would have a field day with it
( doesn’t matter what foot it’s on for the record it’s wrong,, but I can’t stand double standards)
I would have used a sniper!
ah come on , they were looking for a chimney to come down tomorrow morning.
Another joke of a government department
Government can’t even secure our prisons….it’s a joke
And it’s up like a bird and it’s over the city, 3 men are missing I heard a warder cry………..
Does Santa have a key for Solitary to deliver present…..
Smarter than I thought. Waited for the weather warnings to clear.
Because there’s criminal proceedings and the journal respects the right to a fair trial
They should have shot them, then they would fall from the roof and hey presto problem solved and as an added bonus more prison spaces would be freed up
I’m all for leaving them up there. Or knocking them off with plastic bullet
Send up a Drone with a few pints, tell them it’s on the slate:
Protest over them having to make Xmas cards for next year .
Waiting for the drone with the xmas parcel. I’d say they’ll be a happy lot over the festive season
Punters Pal..explain?
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