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China: The Suspense of ‘Electroshock for Net Addiction'
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The Chinese Ministry of Sanitation had announced lately that the security of the electroshock for ‘net addiction', a method some Chinese clinics recently applied to deal with 'net addiction' symptom of the youth, is now suspended. That the electroshock therapeutics invented by Yang Yongxin is ultimately proven to be unscientific and torturous. Many blogger applaud for it. A user on Neteasy comments:
ç"µå‡»æ²»ç–- å¯ä»¥åœ¨ä¸»è§‚上让患者进行自æˆ'ä¿®æ£ï¼Œä½†æ˜¯ 对于神ç»çš„伤害是ä¸ç¡®å®šçš„，准确的说，对于ä¸åŒçš„人，承å-力相差很大，ä¸å¤ªå¯èƒ½åˆ¶å®šä¸€ä¸ªç»Ÿä¸€çš„安全范围。
Electroshock therapeutics may make the sufferer self-cured subjectively. However, the harm it has done to the nerve is uncertain. To be more actual, the endurance depends on
the sufferer himself and it's not probable to set up an unified criterion.
A guy on
Sina feels it very weird for some parents to trust the words by unauthorised ‘experts':都什么年代了，æ¯å¤©ä¸Šä¸ªå‡ 个å°æ-¶ç½'很æ£å¸¸å¥½ä¸å¥½ï¼è¿™æ‰€è°"ç½'瘾,在国外更多ä¸è¿‡è¢«å½"作ç¬'è¯è€Œå·²ã€‚那些家长太愚昧了，竟然相信这些借ç½'瘾赚é'±çš„伪ä¸"家。
It's quite common these days to spend a few hours on line. It's already Internet epoch now! The so-called 'net addiction' must be totally a joke in
the eyes of foreign Internet users. How stupid those parents are to believe the fake experts who made a lot of money from the ‘net addiction' business.
Fang Zhouzi, a well-known scholar and blogger, says it is against our common sense and ethic:国内一度采ç"¨ç"µå‡»ç–-法治ç–-é'å°'å¹´ç½'瘾，便è¿å了医å¦ä¼¦ç†ã€‚ç"µå‡»ç–-法被ç"¨æ¥æ²»ç–-心ç†ç–¾ç-…ï¼Œè™½ç„¶å·²æœ‰å‡ å年的历å²ï¼Œä½†æ˜¯ä¹Ÿæ˜¯æœ€æœ‰äº‰è®®çš„ç–-法，并有显è'-的副作ç"¨ã€‚ç›®å‰ç"µå‡»åªè¢«ç"¨ä»¥æ²»ç–-å°'æ•°å‡ ç§ä¸¥é‡çš„心ç†ç–¾ç-…，主è¦æ˜¯ç"¨ä»¥æ²»ç–-严é‡çš„忧éƒç-‡ï¼Œæœ‰ä¸´åºŠè¯•éªŒç "究认为有一定的效果。通过对è„'éƒ¨æ–½åŠ ç"µå‡»è¯±å'抽æ并æ"¹å˜å¤§è„'功能，其机ç†è‡³ä»Šä¸æ˜Žï¼Œä½†å·²çŸ¥èƒ½æŸå®³è®°å¿†å'Œè®¤çŸ¥åŠŸèƒ½ã€‚
That China once applied the electroshock therapeutics for ‘net addiction' is against medical ethic. Electroshock is a kind of disputed therapeutics though
it has a history for some decades and produces obvious side-effect. Now it is merely applied to a few types of severe psychological illness, especially hypochondria and this has been proved by clinic
experiment. Giving the brain electronic shock to change the cerebral function can only damage the memory and cognitive ability but the mechanism of it is still unknown.
A lawyer named Liu Xiaoyuan writes in his blog that:强迫å©å们接å-残酷ç"µå‡»ç–-法å‰ï¼Œä¼°è®¡åŒ»ç–-机构也ä¸ä¼šå°†æ²»ç–-的安全性ã€æœ‰æ•ˆæ€§ï¼Œç‰¹åˆ«æ˜¯ç-›è‹¦æ€§å'Šè¯‰å®¶é•¿å'Œå©å们，这就严é‡ä¾µçŠ¯äº†å®¶é•¿å'Œå©å们的知情æƒã€‚
Before we force children to accept the cruel electroshock therapeutics, the medical institutations would not tell the parents about the touture this therapeutics can bring to
their kids, which means their right to know got eroded.
åˆ¶é€ å‡ºè¿™ç§ä¸–界上ç»æ- 仅有治ç–-“ç½'瘾â€æŠ€æœ¯çš„ä¸"å®¶ä»¬ï¼Œä½ ä»¬æ˜¯å¦è€ƒè™'过ç"µå‡»ç–-法对å©å的残酷与æ- 人é"å'¢ï¼Ÿå¦‚果“ç½'瘾â€çœŸæ˜¯ä¸€ç§ç-…æ€ï¼Œé™¤äº†æ®‹é…·çš„“ç"µå‡»â€ç–-法，难é"ä½ ä»¬å°±ç "究ä¸å‡ºè¯ç‰©ç–-法å-？
May I ask those experts who forged the term ‘net addiction' : Do you see the torture and inhumanity your therapeutics brings to them? IfÂ
‘net addiction' is a kind of real disease, can you figure out some other way to cure it?
将安全性å'Œæœ‰æ•ˆæ€§ä¸ç¡®åˆ‡çš„æ²»ç–-技术ç"¨äºŽå©å身上，简直是太ä¸äººé"了，ç‰äºŽæ˜¯åœ¨æ‹¿å©ååšåŒ»ç–-实验å"。
All is too atrocious! To apply the immature treatment with no validity and safety equals to use those kids as ‘white
rats' in medical laboratory.
Blogger Hu Yong thinks electroshock therapeutics is lack of prosessional authenticity and official
credibility:如果连ä¸"家都ä¸èƒ½ç¡®å®šä¸€ä¸ªæœ‰å…³ç½'瘾的确切定义å'Œæ ‡å‡†ï¼Œå¦‚果连国际上都在对æ¤å°å¿ƒç¿¼ç¿¼åœ°æ±‚è¯ï¼Œæˆ'们的ç½'瘾治ç–-机构的诸多åšæ³•ä¾æ®ä½•åœ¨ï¼Ÿæ ¹æ®ä»€ä¹ˆæŠŠé'å°'å¹´æ"¶æ²»å…¥é™¢ï¼Ÿ
If the experts are not certain about the definite standard of ‘net addiction' and even the international organizations are cautious
to this question, how can we be so irresponsible sending our children to clinics without asking it?
A boy receiving the ‘electroshock therapeutics' describes his feelings when he was in hospital. æˆ'è®°ä¸å¾-他们给æˆ'多å°'次（ç"µå‡»ï¼‰ï¼Œä½†ä¸€å®šæœ‰å‡ å次。在两次ç"µå‡»ä¹‹é-´ï¼Œä»–们会让æˆ'ä¼'æ¯ä¸€ä¼šå„¿ã€‚æ¯æ¬¡æ²»ç–-æŒç»åŠå°æ-¶å·¦å³ã€‚
I can not remember exactly how many electroshocks they gave me but it must be several dozen. They would let me take a rest between the
intervals for half an hour or so.
æˆ'挣扎并设法站起æ¥ï¼Œä»–们就说æˆ'还是ä¸è‚¯ç•™ä¸‹æ¥ï¼ŒäºŽæ˜¯æŽ¥ä¸‹æ¥çš„åŠå°æ-¶é‡Œåˆç»™äº†æˆ'å¥½å‡ æ¬¡ç"µå‡»ã€‚æˆ'最终åŒæ„ç•™ä¸‹ï¼Œå› ä¸ºæˆ'真的å†ä¹Ÿå-ä¸äº†å•¦ã€‚
I struggled to stand up, but they said that I'm not willing to stay there and thus gave me several other electric shocks in the next thirty minutes. I could not bear it
so in the end I had to give in.
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