Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base, has made it his mission to treat teenagers who are antisocial, doing poorly in school and are sometimes depressed.Tao sends his “students” through a strict regimen of military drills, martial arts training, lectures and sessions with psychiatrists. Drill sergeants shout orders at the teenagers, most between 15 and 19 years old, as they march in military fatigues between activities.But the cardinal rule for these troubled youth: no Internet. For three months, the usual length of stay. It is Internet addiction, Tao says, that has sparked the barrage of psychological symptoms and family problems for his patients.While experts debate whether Internet obsession is a diagnosable condition, centers like Tao’s have launched programs to wean young people off of online activities that they say can lead to compulsive behavior.”Besides eating and sleeping, these students spend each day entirely on the Internet,” Tao said in an interview. “They don’t even shower or wash their clothes.”Tao’s patients start each day with a 6:20 a.m. wake-up call and morning exercises. They file back to the center’s eight-to-a-room, bunk-bed dorms for lights-out at 9:30 p.m.Online games are the main culprit in most… Read full this story
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