Take concrete steps to address the problems

Such solution requires a third party to help you. He or she may be a therapist or one of your family members. The following example is an illustration of the method. Peter needs a job, but due to his internet addiction, he is unwilling to leave his computer find one. Thus, a third party steps in to make sure she would take one concrete step to find work everyday. It could be making one phone call of request of job, writing a letter for interview. After he took that concrete step, he could allow himself to use the Internet for a fixed period of time, as a reward for his effort.

Such concrete job-looking steps may not be necessarily limited to only studying job advertisement, pursuing interviews at different companies, or meeting with career counselor. He could also consider using this time at home to search the possibility of a totally new career goal. As long as he got a job and did well in the field, he had almost kicked the addiction. However, stress from work may start to build on. You could not totally prevent him from use computers, but turn to this technique for that specific time period, allow him on-line as a way to ease his stress from the real world.