honestly, it is getting serious that most people spend over 18 to 19 hours these days on systems and mobile phones watching the market, trading on the move with their mobile. the addiction is getting out of hand. i think i am probably getting into this kind of life.
what could be the possible means of prevention. i need to have my normal life back.
It is not called addiction. They just don't want to lose their investment so they focus on the market movements. They earn profit not depending on luck. Compared to being addicted in gambling, it doesn't matter to you if you lose money, your focus is to win the jackpot not realizing you just lose more.
Addiction actually comes in different forms, I understand your own view of it and I understand what you are trying to say that whatever you are with for the purpose of making genuine income is not an addict, but really, everything as measurement, even if you doing things to make money, it has to be moderate, life is not a matter of life and death.
There is time for everything, someone who is staying up to 19hr on a system is seriously even addicted to the system and not the trade alone which is bad because this could affect the body chemistry and make the brain and body to shut off when they are not to do so. Even the engine the whites designed to function from time to time without rest do short down sometimes, talk less of a body that has been design to shut down when tired.