To not be painfully painful

Reuters, citing the China Daily diary on Tuesday, announced an interesting initiative by the Chinese government, which was concerned with the “epidemic” of computer and Internet dependence spreading among young people. For the rehabilitation of young Chinese who are too attached to a silicon friend, they will be sent to a 10-day course in a special summer camp. As part of the first stage of the experiment, 40 young men and women aged 14 to 22 years old will undergo a program to eradicate such manifestations of mental disorder as depression, isolation, apathy, unreasonable panic and fear.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Health, about 13% of the 20 million local Internet users can be classified as Internet addicts. And although there is still no consensus in the world about whether to recognize this mental disorder as a serious disease, there are already many different treatment centers to combat it, including in China itself. For example, in one of them, not far from Beijing, rehabilitation takes place according to a tough program based on the methods of training special forces.

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