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Dependence on the Web, and ill treatment by the World

November 4, 2009 by
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Online testing, to heal and rehab clinic in Rome in USA.
There 'and those' connected on Facebook and Twitter all day thanks to the latest generation of mobile phones, people who send e-mail obsessively, who spends hours with video games but also those who frequent chat rooms mania: Internet addiction exist, it creates physical and relational problems, and it 'spread throughout the world. According to research published some time ago on Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, and it 'affection for 5% of browsers worldwide, with a peak of 20% among students.
Since he 'was diagnosed for the first time in 1995 by psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg, Internet addiction disorder (Iad) and' was recognized by the community 'so that the scientific debate in the United States on its equivalence to the most' common psychiatric illness , resulting in government intervention and reimbursement by health insurance.
On the net there 'been a wide literature on the subject and also test to see if it is' caught in the net '(netaddiction.com), but begin to rise and help centers for those who' just as addicted to the Internet from drugs, sex, gambling. In Italy, the Gemelli Hospital in Rome and 'just born a clinic that cures this disorder, the United States, precursors of the times but also the use of the Internet, there is already' a few months a center that helps out of the tunnel of the Web .
His name and e Heavensfield Retreat 'in open countryside near Seattle, curiously, not far from Redmond, famous because' home to the headquarters of Microsoft, one of the giants of the web. For $ 14,500, and 'RESTART can enroll in the program (a term used widely in the technological language) which lasts 45 days and includes group therapy, psychological support, activity' recreational, fitness, in short, a rehabilitation program very similar to those developed for other diseases more 'spread. A center with six beds, which, on its website lists the various symptoms of anxiety as a disconnection from the physical changes (eg loss or weight gain), back pain, headaches, carpal tunnel syndrome (similar to the famous 'Nintendinite' due to joypad Nintendo 80s).
If the cost of this program can 'suggest, there are many doubts to those countries which adopted the cure for the disorder and' worse than the disease. It 's the case of China, known to be in' conflict 'with the Internet. In the country, which has more 'than 300 million users, 40 percent of them young or very young, in recent years were born at least 400' clinics' in which children are subjected to a strict regime of exercise and community life should lead to healing.
In some cases the 're-education camps' are operated by the military or former military. In August, two teenagers 'Web sufferers' died from beatings suffered by these 'therapists'.
Only shortly before the government had banned the use of electroshock to cure Internet addiction: the first of this prohibition over 3,000 youth-according to the China daily - were forced to start a therapy of four months in which they had also planned discharges of 200 milliamperes at a cost of about 620 euros per month.
Source: Reuters

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