A certain clinic in China claims they can help children addicted to the internet be "reborn" free of the obsession with electro-shock therapy. The unortunate side of the story id that Chinese parents are actually falling for such baseless claims.
The harsh methods used by the clinic have caused an outcry among 3000 teenagers, who have been subjected to this odd treatment, The Sunday Times reports.
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Their parents have sent them to the treatment centre in Shandong province, eastern China, because they have become hyperactive and uncontrollable.
Patients are forbidden to speak about anything except their struggle to escape the addiction. The boy or girl is made to write a confession and kneel in front of his or her parents.
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Former patients, writing online, claim the shocks, some severe, were administered continuously.
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"We should educate and lead these children instead of treating them as psycho-paths to be dosed with drugs and electric shocks," added Tao Hongkai, a professor of education at Central China University.
Overuse of the Internet has become a household worry in China. The country has more than 300 million Internet users, 40 millons of whom play online games.
An official study two years ago claimed that almost 10 percent of the nation's young people were "addicted to the web".
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