The Fourth Grader Became Too Addicted to His Cell Phone, and Became Violent Toward His Mother, When She Told Him to Stop Using His Cell

The trend of addiction is hitting children younger and younger, and younger here, from the Newspapers, translated…

As His Mother Consoled with Him, She Was, Beaten, the Child Started Showing Symptoms of Depression; the Psychiatrists: the Time for His Cell-Phone Usage Should Reduce Gradually, and the Parents Need to Take Measures to Help His Develop Alternative Hobbies

A fourth grade boy in the city of Taipei, during his winter break, he’d stayed at home, and play his cell phone games, and the families were out, and wanted him to put down his cell, but the boy became verbally abusive toward his family, and, as his mom tried to console with him, he’d, beaten up his mother. The Tri-General Hospital’s Head of Psychiatry, Dr. Yeh said, that this mom had only, tried to console her son to put down his cell and got beaten, and she’d started, showing signs of depression, the family took both the child and the parent into treatment, and the boy was diagnosed with having “symptoms of serious cell phone usage problems”.

Dr. Yeh pointed out, that in the past, the term of “Online Addiction” was developed to describe those members of the public who’d been, too addicted to using the internet, but because it gives the internet a bad name, they’d changed the name of the illness to symptoms of problematic cell phone usage. As the New Year’s vacation just ended, there is a ten-percent increase in the patients with this problem, and after the summers, there’s an estimate of a twenty to thirty-percent increase of patients who would be, diagnosed.

The Bali Psychiatric Hospital’s manager, Chang said, although the winter vacations are shorter, but playing video games all day long, cell phone games, in a short period of time, there’s, this huge accumulation of things, plus, if in the child’s reality, there are issues of bad interpersonal relationships or bad grades, it would make the kids want to escape from reality even more, and became, totally, intrigued by the virtual, unrealistic world of things.

Dr. Chang said, to help the children get off their cell phone addictions, the parents should assist from the sidelines, to help the kids set up a schedule, to slowly, reduce the time the children spend on the games, at the same time, helping the child to develop another hobby; if the condition is worse, the child started getting agitated easily, becoming impatient, and started talking using virtual languages, and, to the point of affecting their daily lives, then, hospitalization may be necessary.

Yeh reminded, for the children who are seriously addict, the parents shouldn’t do anything drastic, such as throwing the cell phones away, locking up the internet access, as the child didn’t get addicted overnight, and, if you take away the child’s internet access, and/or cell phone, the child may react even more violently. There was a parent who’d believed that s/he couldn’t knock any senses into her/his child, and threw away the child’s cell phone, the child broke down, lost her/his mind, hated the parents, and refused any therapeutic help, to the point that s/he left home, or bought another cell phone secretively, then played on it late in the nights, with this gap between her/him and the parents getting deeper, and deeper, and deeper still.

the most serious kind…photo from online…

Toward this sort of a serious addictions, the parents, the psychiatrists usually need to connect with the children, to help them realize that they have a problem, and if the children can understand that their actions are a huge problem, then, the parents need to give them enough time, to quit slowly, it may take many years on end. Dr. Yeh called out, that the parents should NEVER give their young a cell phone as a “playmate”, and they’d needed to, control the time of use.

Dr. Yeh stated, that a lot of the children would plead with the parents, “Just give me one more minute”, and in the end, the children played for an hour, and, once the time slot exceeded, it’d become out of control, he wants to remind the parents, to NOT let the children get that sense of achievement from dodging their realities in the online world or the world of cell phone games, to avoid this sort of hard-to-kick addiction.

and here’s, a less severe sort…photo from online still…

And so, this, is a SERIOUS problem, because all you STUPID parents are so used to having these, electronic babysitters to “watch over” your young, but that is YOUR job, but, it’s, easier, to just throw a god DAMN electronic advice to SILENCE your own young, especially when you got too much on your plates already, and so, this is why it’s, easier, for children to get addicted, and yes, it’s still, ALL your faults, PARENTS!!!

And the process of helping your kids detox from their electronics addictions are even harder than the AA programs…you got your workloads cut out for you all there…

And here’s a “checklist” to see if you have it, an addiction to your cell phones, taken from the papers, translated, by me still…

1. without internet, cell phone, you’d feel panic, anxious, even angry
2. your cell phone had seriously affected your daily lives, for instance, causing you insomnia or you to not sleep well at night
3. you can’t tell what’s real and what’s not, and speak in terms of the games you play, using the languages in the games
4. you’d become violent suddenly, with your language use, ebcoming vulgar
5. you can’t control the impulses of wnating to use your cell phone, or log onto the internet