Computer addictions are a serious glitch in online play
The calls keep coming, five or six a day, from addicts desperate for help, and psychologist Maressa Hecht Orzack, an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, understands the misery on the other end of the line. She knows firsthand the pain of an addiction so severe it might have wrecked her career.
But Orzack mastered her obsession and now helps others do the same. Granted, when Orzack beat her habit over a decade ago, she had it relatively easy. She’d become hooked on computer solitaire, the trivial card game built into millions of desktop and laptop computers. Orzack believes it could have been much worse.