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An SOS from Internet addiction center inmatesPosted by Eric Mu, August 10, 2009 6:18 PM
Deng Senshan, a 16-year-old sent by his parents to an Internet addiction treatment camp in Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, died suddenly on August 2, allegedly after being beaten. Police closed down the camp and detained a number of employees. Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily conducted its own investigation into a related training camp in Guangzhou. It printed its findings in today's issue:
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Comments on An SOS from Internet addiction center inmates
Is the rehab privately owned? If so, what fees do parents pay?
@Iain: The rehab camp where the death occurred charges a fee of 7,000 RMB per month, which is about $1,000. Many parents have given all their savings to these camps.
I don't know too much about curing internet addiction, but I get the creeping feeling that beating it out of the kids is not the way to go.
I feel for the parents. You must be in a pretty bad way if you are willing to pay these thugs to take your only child away. Either that or they just don't care or have bought into the marketing hype.
Internet addiction is similar to the addiction found in QiGong addiction. It is a form of operant conditioning. I have a site about the little known problem that causes this phenomenon.
The subjects are actually addicted to the stimulation of the subconscious by the triggering detection of movement in peripheral vision. This happens as they concentrate to use a computer that is set up too close to other computers.
Most computer arcades do not use Cubicle Level Protection. The office cubicle was designed to deal with the mental event this phenomenon will cause.
This is a problem that was discovered and solved forty years ago.
VisionAndPsychosis.Net is the only site about this problem anywhere on the Internet.