Computer Addiction Electroshock

• The China Daily reported last month that more than 3,000 young people were tricked or forced into in to the four-month long course. To enroll their children, parents or guardians had to sign a contract acknowledging that they would be given electric shocks of up to 200 milliamperes. The treatment cost 6,000 yuan ($878) per month. Patients were considered “cured” or “reborn” once they admitted to their addiction.

• ECT is used with informed consent in treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant catatonia, or prolonged or severe mania, and in conditions where "there is a need for rapid, definitive response because of the severity of a psychiatric or medical condition.

• 1. Almost 12½ % often or very often were online longer than they intended

2. The same number had  seen a need to cut back on Internet use at some point

3. Close to 9% tried to hide needless Internet use of the internet from their bosses , friends and family

4. Nearly 6% said that their relationships suffered as a result of too much time spent online

5. Over 8 % used the Internet as a method of escaping problems or to ease a negative frame of mind

6. Over 13½ % of people found it hard to stay away from the Internet for more than a few days

• Mr Ran has been involved in the digital detox program since 2008, when the camp first started accepting people with a digital addiction.

Standing in front of a group of young men and women, Mr Ran barks at the teenagers as if they are in the military.

“I am supposed to be a prison warden, although it’s not a prison in a literal sense,” Mr Ran said.

“I must care for them, like a kindergarten head. I am meant to educate them, as though I were a schoolmaster, and treat them as if I were a psychiatrist.

“Military training will improve your health, and a sound mind can only be in a sound body.”

By day, the participants stand in line and march dozens of times around the premises concrete courtyard. Saluting their instructor, the group of teenagers will stand tall and completely still for at least 20 minutes, while keeping their backs straight in an attempt to reform their posture. Outside exercise, they are also required to attend relationship lectures and one-on-one psychologist sessions.