China's Ministry of Health has told a clinic to stop using electroshock treatments on patients suffering from Internet addiction. "In what might be an indication of the clinic's effectiveness, its practices came to light when former patients went online to complain. They described restrictive living conditions – including being allowed to talk only about their addiction and being forced to kneel in front of their parents in obedience – that scarcely squared with the clinic's way out, which for them merely meant declaring they had overcome their addiction." I'm a little dubious about the whole "Internet addiciton" myself, but surely electroshock is not the way to go about curing it. What's wrong with a little aversion therapy instead?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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SPEAKING OF AVERSION THERAPY: a colon-cleansing ad in your sidebar, complete with a photo of something that definitely looks like it was wrested from someone's colon? So much for lunch.
It sounds like a Japanese Game Show.
We can still live-blog our therapy sessions, right?