Mental Health Rehabs: How to Treat Addiction on the Internet in the USA

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

There are some differences between Internet addictions in humans around the world. Advocates therapy argue that East Asia is in the lead in this matter, from her slightly behind the United States. But South Korea and China see the Internet depending on the threat to public health. But the country is quite difficult to compare, because diagnosis depends on a variety of cultural norms, differing depending on the particular area. In the US, rehabilitation centers mainly guided by experience in the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addiction and gambling.

reSTART Center for Digital Technology Sustainability, located outside of Seattle, occupies five acres in Washington state and is more like a holiday home than a clinic for dependent patients. Members (the center does not use the term “patient”) live in a holiday house from 8 to 12 weeks, visit visiting therapy sessions with licensed counselors and support groups that are based on the 12 steps of rehabilitation, which became widely known thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous. Animals that assist in the process of adaptation of participants also included here. Eight-week stay worth $ 30 thousand.

Here, learn to think about their attraction to the Internet as a dependency. And in order to prepare for the return of the “external world”, make a plan to restrict the use of the Internet and a phased program of action that will help to avoid potential risks provoking a return to dependence. The rest of the points stay – a household: the participants prepare and clean up after themselves, viewing rooms takes place daily.

Slightly different looks Camp Grounded, the free tech summer camp for adults. The camp does not provide any information about the professionalqualifications of mental health rehabs, but it continues to attract many people who believe they suffer from Internet addiction. Here are the main slogans and promise Camp Grounded: «No screens. No Filters. No Big Data. No agenda. No bullshit ». Tourists not allowed to use their real names (instead, they choose an alias), and they can not talk about work.

The camp belongs to Digital Detox, the company officially registered trademark slogan «Disconnect to reconnect». The price for the weekend without technology starts at $ 495. The camp was founded in California, due to high demand campsites are also open in North Carolina and Texas, New York and Washington.