C-netnews.com – America’s first Internet addiction detox program
When stars need to wean their bodies off an excess of alcohol or drugs, they waft off to the Betty Ford Center or the Priory in London.
Now those who have allowed gaming or the Web to take over their lives have their own place of salvation in the United States.
Heavensfield Retreat Center in the kindly named Fall City, near Seattle, claims to have the first Internet addiction detox program in the States. Called ReStart, it essentially offers a 45-day detox from the need to socially network and game until your mind and fingers are more numb than a Jonas Brothers fan after a concert.
For $14,500, you can be saved from yourself and your virtual world. However, the criteria that the center uses to define Internet addiction make for interesting reading.
Anyone here need to take the cure?
Outsource it to China.
Jägermeister, we’re going to start charging you room and board.
I would imagine that I can go on to their website to register, correct?
Every year I go on vacation.
No tv. No Radio. No Internet. I love it. I wouldn’t do it if I couldn’t have paperback books along with me.
Do I need more physical activity?==Yes, I do.
Why should I be cured?
Addicted or afflicted? Hmm..
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#2 – hhopper
Nah, free of charge. That’s the internet for you. 😉
If you’re making a room for Alfredone… make sure it got padded walls and no windows.
Hmmmm Espresso Concentrate.
Can I get that mail order? I don’t have time to go to the store. You know Internet and stuff.
YES ! I am addicted to the Internet. There, I said it.
Being from Florida, its a little bit of a far trip for me. Is there anyway I can take this detox program online?
So long as the Messiah Obomba covers the treatment under his health care package it’s all good.
I don’t consider myself addicted by any means. It has become a very indispensable part of my, and I will assume most other regulars at DU, lives.
One aspect I consider rewarding is as a diversion. When I’m working on something and about to go crazy I can just surf around and see what is happening outside the walls of my office.
Yes, yes, getting away from the desk and running around the block a few times would definitely be healthier, but then I would end up getting even less work done.
How do people manage to get addicted to the Internet? I’ve been using the Internet 18 hours a day for more than 10 years and never became addicted.
I can quit whenever I want. I just don’t want to.
My name is LOLcat and I has an internet addict.
Reading some of Alphie’s better rants will cure most internet addictions.
I don’t have a problem, I can quit anytime I want.