ReSTART Internet Addiction Center Opens in Seattle
ReSTART, the world’s first internet-addiction residential treatment program, opened recently in Redmond, Wash. (ironically enough, the neighborhood where Microsoft was founded). The center offers a 45-day, $14,000 rehabilitation course that promises to help addicts ease dependencies on social networking, online video games, texting and a host of other technological time-wasters.
Individuals who enter the program will go cold-turkey on technology as a way of helping them overcome their compulsive need to blog and game, in addition to receiving psychotherapy and counseling. It’s easy to raise an eyebrow at the notion of physical or psychological addiction to leisure-time activities, but there’s evidence that these kinds of addictions can destroy relationships, end careers and even result in death.
(via Paste)
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Dear Tumblrs… there’s help if you want it.
