The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated since the mid-1990s, but the delineation between beneficial and pathological use of digital media has not been established, and there are no widely accepted diagnostic criteria. Some experts consider overuse a manifestation of underlying psychiatric disorders, but moderate digital media use has been found beneficial to mental health. Digital addictions and dependencies have also been widely studied. The links between digital media use and mental health outcomes appear to depend on the individuals and the platforms they use. The eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases includes a gaming disorder diagnosis (commonly known as video game addiction), but neither it nor the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition includes diagnoses for problematic internet use or problematic social media use. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media_use_and_mental_health> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1856: Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot (portrait shown), was submitted for publication. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_of_Clerical_Life> 1869: In the first official American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey 6–4 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_New_Jersey_vs._Rutgers_football_game> 1939: As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_Krakau> 1944: The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington produced its first plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: Hansard: 1. (historical, also attributively) A member of a Hanse (“merchant guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town. […] 2. (chiefly Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hansard> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much — and its big, awkward, sprawling people. Anyway, I don't like politics; and I don't make "political gestures" … I don't even believe in politics. To me, politics is like one of those annoying, and potentially dangerous (but generally just painful) chronic diseases that you just have to put up with in your life if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes. It's a science, a catch-as-catch-can science, which has grown up out of simple animal necessity more than anything else. If I were twice as big as I am, and twice as physically strong, I think I'd be a total anarchist.   --James Jones <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Jones>