Addicted? Hospital Launches Tech Rehab for Youths
Kids these days don't get outside enough. They spend all day cooped up inside playing video games or surfing the web. Let's send them all to tech rehab, shall we?
The Telegraph reports that Capio Nightingale Hospital, in central London, has launched an addiction service that allows children as young as 12 to go "cold turkey" from their technology compulsion.
While staying in the clinic's residential unit, the children will be taught face-to-face communication skills and cut off from technology use that has become problematic. Dr. Richard Graham, the psychiatrist leading the new addiction treatment, said he has been contacted by concerned parents who tell him their child flies into a fit of rage when told to turn off his or her PC.
Graham said services need to adapt quickly to help these "screenagers," adding that current methods used for substance abuse are not the answer.
''What we need are official guidelines now on what counts as healthy or unhealthy use of technology," he told the London Evening Standard. ''We have found that many of the existing services fail to recognize the complexity of these situations, borrowing from older models of addiction and substance misuse to very limited effect. This is why Capio Nightingale Hospital has launched the first Young Person Technology Addiction Service, which we hope will address the underlying causes of this addiction to transform screenagers back into teenagers."
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lmao at the picture. Is that a new snuggies for tech addicts?
Clearly the guy in the picture has found a 1337 way to look at pr0n on the family computer without getting busted.
lmao at the picture. Is that a new snuggies for tech addicts?
Loool i love that picture
I'm not saying that you can't be addicted to technology, but there can't be very many legitimate cases. Oftentimes it would be referred to as a temper-tantrum. They're kids. Parent them. And aye, great picture.
Aspect ratio is called "Tunnel vision"
A line from the movie Back To The Future fits perfectly for this news article - "The Kid's an idiot. It comes from upbringing, the parents are idiots too."
If your kids are screaming at you for anything, including a request to get of the computer, then what is needed is a good swat on the ass.
If your kids are screaming at you for anything, including a request to get of the computer, then what is needed is a good swat on the ass.
if they are screaming at that age isnt it bad parenting?
no offence but i doubt a lot of people that this article refers to, are as daft as a brush
How much for that hoodie/snuggie?
I'm not addicted, just have nothing better to do.
''What we need are official guidelines now on what counts as healthy or unhealthy use of technology,"
No we do not need the government telling us how/when to use our technology.
lmao at the picture. Is that a new snuggies for tech addicts?
I don't think it is a snuggie. I think it is how Iranian women are expected to view their computers.
I don't think it is a snuggie. I think it is how Iranian women are expected to view their computers.
don't bring that here man!.. P.S. in true Islamic teaching the women would only cover the head NOT the face..
OMG I actually wanted to build/sew something like that "hoodie" in the pic when I was about 15 years old since with all the damn sun rays I couldn't see a damn thing on my screen.
I WANT IT!!!
don't bring that here man!.. P.S. in true Islamic teaching the women would only cover the head NOT the face..
True Islamic teaching by whom? They all claim to be the real one.
BTW, that guy is playing Virtual Boy's emulation on his PC.
Where can we purchase one of the sweaters from the pic? Every gamer in my household will want one!
Outdoors? where's that?
Maybe we should just turn the internet off after 8pm
The picture on this article is epic!!!
wow i hate when religion gets into topics.. especially computer relates ones
but srsly.. enough of the racial abuse.
If your kids are screaming at you for anything, including a request to get of the computer, then what is needed is a good swat on the ass.
I'm a parent, and I assure you the swat on the ass would be followed by the dismantling of the PC and removal of all electronics from the bedroom, followed by a period of confinement known as "grounding" to said emptied room.
The first rule I am teaching my son (who is still a toddler): "Do not throw a fit with dad. It doesn't work on me, and only makes things worse on you."
Too many parents are too lazy to be consistent with rule enforcement and consequences, and in reality that's all it takes to have a well behaved kid. But hey, after a hard day's work (or welfare), who wants to discipline their kid, right? Much easier to let them do whatever they please...
Funny photo
Aspect ratio is called "Tunnel vision"
True 1337 junky uses 4+ LCDs in Tunnel aspect Ratio with TunnelFinity enabled.
I'm a parent, and I assure you the swat on the ass would be followed by the dismantling of the PC and removal of all electronics from the bedroom, followed by a period of confinement known as "grounding" to said emptied room.The first rule I am teaching my son (who is still a toddler): "Do not throw a fit with dad. It doesn't work on me, and only makes things worse on you."Too many parents are too lazy to be consistent with rule enforcement and consequences, and in reality that's all it takes to have a well behaved kid. But hey, after a hard day's work (or welfare), who wants to discipline their kid, right? Much easier to let them do whatever they please...
If i was your kid i would've called the police you on for child abuse for hitting ^^ "positive punishment or type I punishment, an experimenter punishes a response by presenting an aversive stimulus into the animal's surroundings (a brief electric shock, for example)." or hitting, its also the worst way to get someone to consistently decrease a behavior thats undesired
Simple answer.. Beat your kids.. Parnets that put up with that crap are affraid O I might hurt my kids feelings.. screw that wipe out the belt and they mouth off give them a good spanking..
If I mouthed off to my parnets or did something stubid I knew I would be getting an ass kicking so you learn to A Hide it better or B Man up to it and get less of a punishment.. Or C Dont do stubid things..
Proper discipline for the kids is more than just a backhand when they mouth off. Disciplined parents will have disciplined kids. Like figgus mentioned, it's about consistency, fairness, not taking any BS, and starting early. In this age, not many kids are playing sports or engaging in worthwhile things. It's the parents' fault.
Good job Capio Nightingale Hospital!
Kid throwing a fit because you tell him to turn it off. Heres a simple, easy, and effective solution. PULL THE CORD and act like freaking parents.
I dont know about you guys but in some areas keeping the kids indoors can be better for them than actually letting them mingle with some of the troubled kids out there.. i sure as hell would not want my kid in a gang or playing with little thugs..
Simple answer.. Beat your kids.. Parnets that put up with that crap are affraid O I might hurt my kids feelings.. screw that wipe out the belt and they mouth off give them a good spanking.. If I mouthed off to my parnets or did something stubid I knew I would be getting an ass kicking so you learn to A Hide it better or B Man up to it and get less of a punishment.. Or C Dont do stubid things..
You wrote that stupidly. 5 spankings for you.
But can they play Crysis?