“Electroshock Therapy” Experienced: “Being electrocuted is worse than death” “Room 13, a place I will never forget in my life, where I first felt the sensation of a million swords piercing my heart, and being electrocuted is really worse than death. ” Xiao Yu, who has experienced electric shock treatment, now hears the number 13 is still palpitating. Recently, the Ministry of Health urgently called a halt to the “electric shock therapy”, “electric shock treatment of Internet addiction,” known as the Yang Yongxin Internet Retreat Center has now become a target. Reporters in a few days to call the center, but no one has answered. Current hit to the temple According to statistics, China’s 338 million Internet users, youth Internet users have more than 160 million, and there are different degrees of Internet addiction accounted for 10%. Although the country has not yet issued a scientific standard for the identification of Internet addiction, but there are more than 300 organizations in accordance with their own standards of treatment for Internet addicts, the treatment can be described as “soft and hard”. “Yang Yongxin’s electric shock therapy belongs to the ‘hard school’, is passive, compulsory therapy, is violence against violence,” China Youth Network Association expert consultant, Huazhong Normal University special psychology professor Tao Hongkai analyzed to the International Herald Leader. Electroshock stimulation therapy, in which the main part of the electric shock is the solar plexus, produces an electric shock on a nerve part of the brain through positive and negative electrodes. “I have a negative attitude towards electroshock therapy,” Kong Lingzhong, director of CYC’s Centennial Internet Addiction Center, made his position clear at the beginning of the interview, “Electroshock therapy is mainly used for psychiatric patients, but now it is becoming more and more humanized, and electroshock therapy is rarely used even in treating mental illness. ” “The skin is burned” Before the “electric shock therapy” was stopped, Yang Yongxin had explained that the current used on the child is only 1-5 milliamps of weak electricity, far less than the general psychiatric tens or even hundreds of milliamps of electricity. But even with such a weak current, Yang Yongxin, who has tried electric shock, has confessed that “it was quite painful”. “Electroshock makes a lot of children physically and mentally destroyed, is a secondary injury to the child,” said Tao Hongkai, more children after receiving treatment, become hateful to their parents, revenge society, serious and even began to scold their parents. A closer look at the 86 rules of the Yang Yongxin Internet Retreat Center: “those who do not stand in military posture in the treatment room,” “those who stick their heads out to look at others when they are doing treatment,” “sitting in Uncle Yang’s (Yang Yongxin) chair without permission “, “those who speak in a low voice or don’t speak when asked by Uncle Yang”, “those who argue with Uncle Yang or the class leader”, etc. If you violate these rules, you will be fined or given electric shocks. In the netizens compared to the “Auschwitz concentration camp,” after receiving treatment in the Internet rehab center, a 16-year-old boy in Hong Kong went home and his parents said the first thing: “I tell you, I live is to make you suffer. From now on I won’t study, I won’t go to college, I won’t get married, I won’t have children, and I’ll make you all cut off from your children and grandchildren.” In order to protect the child, Xiaoyu’s parents do not want him to mention the past painful memories to reporters. Xiaoyu only said in the acceptance of Tao Hongkai’s re-treatment, because he resisted the most intense, so he was electrocuted also the most powerful, the skin of the temples are burned. Emphasis on the standardization of Internet addiction treatment Why is electroshock seen as a lifesaver by parents when it has become a child’s nightmare? Many parents are still convinced that electroshock therapy works. Kong Lingzhong explained that electric shock treatment of Internet addiction, more efficacy is simply that many parents see disobedient children learn to yield under electric shock. So how can we better treat Internet addiction? Tao Hongkai and Kong Lingzhong both coincidentally mentioned a word: tailor-made. They believe that it is important to tailor the treatment to the essentials by analyzing the root causes of Internet use. “Whether it’s electric shock, or other medications or violent treatments, they are all superficial, rather than addressing the root cause of Internet addiction among teenagers.” Finally, Tao Hongkai called for attention to be paid to the standardization of Internet addiction treatment.