Military discipline meets group therapy.

[Jabberwocky]

Photos: Inside a Chinese Online Gaming Addiction Rehab
Military discipline meets group therapy.

These photos by award-winning photographer Fernando Moleres offer a window into China’s oldest Internet addiction treatment center, in Beijing. The facility, run by military doctor Toa Ren, has treated 5,000 people since 2004. Its aim is to break the habits of game-addicted teens through labor and military drills—the kind of “tough-love” approach that in the US is considered discredited and harmful for teens—while monitoring the effects of gaming on their neurological activity. There are currently 62 boys and six girls in treatment.

With approximately 632 million Internet users and 113,000 Internet cafes and bars around China, including 24-hour locations, Tao Ren estimates that there are 24 million Chinese people are addicted to gaming. He believes that the rising problem is partly due to the high number of children without siblings whose ”parents work a lot and spend few hours at home.” Stiff competition and economic problems also contribute to the pressure on young people to do well at school, and online gaming can provide an escape, as well as a sense of community.

China’s Internet treatment centers are highly controversial. In 2009, 15-year-old Deng Senshan died less than a day after his parents sent him to a camp in the southern Guangxi province where he was allegedly beaten to death. And the Ministry of Health recently banned the use of electric shock therapy at another facility in eastern China.

The Internet Addiction Treatment Center (IATC) is led by Tao Ran, a military doctor and researcher who built his career treating heroin addiction.

Leo, center, started playing online video games in 2005, playing an average of 16 hours on days that he is not at school.

Thirteen-year-old Lu Jung Song has his cerebral bioelectrical activity measured.

Some patients take medication, paid for by their families, to counteract irritability, anxiety and sadness.

Patients in the daily group psychotherapy sessions.

http://www.substance.com/photos-inside-a-chinese-online-gaming-addiction-rehab/17198/

 

[TheRapperGoneBad]

This is a fuckin spa bro....
One of you guys down to send me, I'm such a gamer. You all family right..?
I'll definitely need some xanax for the anxiety and brAin activity.
or some soma from my over active hand muscles.
for real tho let me popem all 'for I'm wearing that pointless machine hat for no reason.

First pic That guy on the left in the middle face like "the fuck this nikka say this is?"

Can't just have a passion for such things? Could even be careers involved maybe allowing your children to grow into them selves isnt such a bad idea...

Lookin a lil diddler/fiddler to me.