Instead of playing online, the children who are diagnosed with Internet addiction, they spend a marching or even sessions of electric shock. This is the special treatment received by the computer players in a special centers set up in China.
Among the target at 6.00 and 21.00 to retreat teens do not have a free minute, only military-style exercises and a strict regime. This is a medical facility for rehabilitation for those young Chinese Internet lovers who recently spent hours in the virtual world, showing an obsession by being online and the inability to disconnect from the network.
Although international medical community Internet addiction has not yet been officially recognized as a mental disorder, more and more cases are reported of people fled, mostly young people, virtual world to the detriment of their social life, education and health. Therefore China's authorities, with the largest population of Internet users in the world, consider a diagnosis like a reason to enter the adolescents in a medical center. In turn, the Chinese experts believe that the best treatment for this disease is a discipline railway.
According to official rates, one in five young Chinese are passionate about computer games currently in need of medical care, reports 1tv.ru. According to reports the address of doctor, treatment can last up to six months and costs to the family of 'patient' a sum equivalent to nearly eight thousand dollars.
The goal of doctors is to return to the country citizens capable of acting and mentally healthy. For this they are worth nearly all media. If it is not efficient marching, patients are prescribed antidepressants. And in special cases even used electroconvulsive therapy (used in medicine to treat some forms of depression), a method that provides maximum effect, according to its developers.
first applied shock level varied in the patient's hands, and if no effect on Internet addict gets an electric shock to the head. According to experts, from 2005, when China began the treatment of addiction to the Internet, have been cured over 5,000 people, most of them with electroconvulsive therapy.
However, while doctors fight the harmful effects of the network, the same Internet they doubt that the treatment methods used in rehabilitation centers are healthy Chinese. In 2009, a certain public resonance deserved a fatal case in one of the center of its kind in the Guansi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where he died a teenager who savagely beaten during the proceedings 'healing'.
Meanwhile, Russian experts do not support such drastic methods of therapy. Russian expert explained Vitalina Burov, quoted by the website of The Voice of Russia, medicine Russian reserves electric shock therapy to some forms of schizophrenia who are unresponsive to drug therapy and drug doctors in Russia used to cure Internet addiction is not (a phenomenon that has not yet enough studies to develop a optimal treatment), but for the symptoms that accompany it, as . COM anxiety, insomnia or depresión.RT
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