Detox from military games

Does your child still play games for hours without being bored? So, maybe your child has a game addiction. But now you can no longer worry, in China, people have come up with an idea to cure very addictive gaming addiction - military training.

At exactly 6:30 am at a military barracks near the capital of Beijing, China, Chinese Liberation Army recruits are listening to their new mission announcement. But these are not "normal" recruits, but they are actually young people with gaming addictions, coming here to heal. Many of them have been sent here by their parents with the determination to cure this many diseases.

Online games are attracting young people ( Photo: Vgmuseum )

Major General Dieu, a therapist from the barracks, said the recruits were one of the heavy drug addicts. Some of them can play games 10 hours a day. And their treatment lasted for a month, which included rigorous military exercises and treatment of antidepressants to help them cease their gaming habits. The Major said: ' They are living in a virtual world. They are not exposed to the outside. We forced them to return to real life because real life is not as beautiful as what they see online . '

One of the special things in this detox course, is that instead of online battles, these recruits will be able to participate in real battles with real guns fired by lasers. However, the treatment of this disease is not easy. 'Rookie' Hua Quang Nam, 19, had to return to this camp a second time to treat the disease.

The hobby of playing the game completely occupied his life. Nam said: ' When I went online, I almost did not contact and meet anyone. I never heard my parents when they advised me, my friends might call me but I did not bother to answer. I hardly eat and never exercise. My people became weaker and weaker, people were thin, I looked like a drug addict. '

The increase in the number of computer game addicts is one of the most painful issues in China in the past. Internet games can be addictive, and sometimes gaming addicts don't even eat and sleep to play games.

Last year a 28-year-old game player in South Korea died after a two-day game without a break, and in Vietnam there was a player who had to go to an emergency hospital for playing online games.

The barracks said that up to 75% of new recruits had recovered from their addiction after the training. However, the biggest challenge is still in front of them, when they return home and still face computers.

Bich Thao