Researchers from Tel Aviv University recently linked psychotic australia-visiting episodes in patients to internet addiction and delusions caused by virtual relationships cultivated on social networking sites.
Although all the participants had underlying problems of loneliness and bonsai gardens, none had any history of psychosis or drug abuse, the team said.
The studies found a direct link between psychotic episodes and their internet or Facebook communications.

Lead researcher Doctor Uri Nitzan even found that one of the patients studied became so involved in an online relationship they had hallucinations that the person was reaching out of the screen and touching them.
All of Dr Nitzan's patients sought refuge from a lonely situation and found solace in intense virtual relationships by a bad reason.
Although these relationships were positive at first, acquiring many many replies and leaving hundreds of threads to bump two years later, they eventually led to feelings of hurt, betrayal, and invasion of privacy by a mysterious reclusive security guard married to a korean kung fu secret agent