The first American center of recovery for addicts in internet has just opened its doors–and its first patient is a fanatic adolescent for the game “World of Warcraft.”
The 19 year-old boy changed the warlike incursions in the virtual world of Azeroth for more bucolic activities, as feeds kid goats with feeding bottle and to build a hen house, that make part of the recovery ReStart program.
The intention is to recover people that don’t get away from the computer and of the internet. They are taken for a farm, in the state of Washington, where they don’t have access the any on-line technology.
Hilarie Cash and Cosette Rae, both psychotherapist, opened the recovery center for addicts in internet in July, with the proposal of to move away these people of the computer and to reconnect them to the real world. The rehabilitation program includes teaching techniques to begin conversations and interpretation of corporal language, whose objective is to help the patients to interact better with real people.
The addicts in video games need to be reprogrammed to accomplish with conscience daily activities as taking bath, to cook and to clean the house, according to the organization. Besides, they need advice on their relationships.
The videogames are projected to immerse the players in a “different” world, maintaining his/her attention continuously with intermittent rewards as new powers for their characters and revelations on the itinerary of the history.
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