China to stop using electric shock treatment

China has stopped the use of electrical shock treatment as a cure for internet addiction, admitting that there is no evidence that it works.


The Health Ministry has ordered the Linyi Mental Health Hospital to cease using the practice.



The hospital in eastern Shandong province has used the treatment on nearly 3,000 youths, according to the China Youth Daily newspaper.



The electric shock treatment formed part of a four-month program which included counseling and medical treatment.



China has the most internet users in the world, with an internet population of more than 300 million.



According to a message on the health ministry's website there is no domestic or international clinical evidence that electric shock therapy helps cure internet addiction.



Shock treatment is sometimes used on people suffering from severe depression where other treatments have failed.



Chinese psychologists classify internet addiction as being online for more than six hours a day, playing games and looking at pornography instead of working and getting angry when not being able to get online.


Yea Gods they would have to wet my finger and stick it in the plug socket to stop me using the internet :explode:

mee too :alcoholic:

I only started a couple of months ago, ain't gonna stop now.

Might be a bit too late in the day for me to become addicted anyway. :D

Its never to late to get addicted to the "darkside" :fuzzy:

AA

mazzie wrote:

I only started a couple of months ago, ain't gonna stop now.

Might be a bit too late in the day for me to become addicted anyway. :D

OH!! Mazzie almost 2000 posts in two months
YOU ARE HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I wasn't coming on here I would definitely need psychiatric treatment or I'd die of boredom. :D