China Bans Shock Treatment For Internet Addiction

angry tapir writes "China has banned the use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction after its use at one hospital sparked nationwide controversy. The hospital drew wide media coverage in recent months after Internet users claiming to have received the treatment wrote in blogs and forums about being tied down and subjected to shocks for 30 minutes at a time."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Is this to cure internet addiction or a reason to punish those that bypassed chinas censorship... hmmmm

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[Psyborgue]

It's currently going onin the United States and nobody is getting punished. It's "aversion therapy". This article on the Judge Rotenberg Center [motherjones.com] will make you wretch, i guarantee.

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[MrCrassic]

This kind of reminds me of an article I read some time ago in the Wall Street Journal regarding how mental illness is treated in China. Parents that can't afford healthcare for their mentally-ill children lock them up in cages, while some that can have been duped to going to hospitals for treatment, only to scar (or nearly kill) their children even further and be completely, shit-out-of-luck broke. One of these operations involved removing parts of the patient's brain outright.

I wish I could find these articles; they were great reads (though a bit sensational).