Escaping the Russian War Children Seek Virtual Salvation When There Is No Other

The growth of Internet addiction among children and adolescents is due to its spread in the context of the Russian military attack on Ukraine, since the Internet remains the only source of information about military dangers: the advance of the enemy, rocket and aerial bombardment, artillery shelling, looting by the Russian military of houses and apartments in which they they steal children's toys and clothes, rape children and their parents. The constant experience of danger to the life and health of oneself, one's parents and relatives significantly affects the formation of generalized Internet addiction, which reduces the quality of life and social functioning of young people. The article provides data on the comorbidity of Internet addiction with pathology of the central nervous system, neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders, affective disorders, and social phobias. The results of examinations of 84 adolescent male patients are presented. Of them, 39 people with residual organic insufficiency (hemorrhagic and hypoxic-ischemic cerebrovascular injuries in the anamnesis, which later provoked various forms of deviant behavior of a non-psychotic register; and 45 patients with neurotic, stress-related disorders, namely: mixed anxiety and depressive, phobic and post-traumatic stress disorders. The algorithm of the emergence of Internet addiction in childhood is revealed, which includes a period of mild fascination, which brings partial relief in the emotional state of the child-patient, a period of primary pathological urge, which was characterized by the appearance of a new need in the form of social networks or of computer games, which acquires a systematic character, and the last stage with pronounced signs of psychological and physical dependence on the Internet. and social components of the formation of dependent states.