In January 2006, Yang Yongxin set up the "Linyi No. 4 People's Hospital Internet Addiction Treatment Center", of which he is the director. On July 3, 2008, at 8:20 pm, CCTV began broadcasting a 7-episode TV documentary, "Battle Network Devil", the fourth episode of which, "Who Turned Genius into a Warcraft", was mainly about the slamming of online games represented by World of Warcraft, with elements of slander and distortion. The program disregarded the facts and falsely claimed that you can kill people and steal at will in the World of Warcraft, and even took a fragment of Meteor Butterfly Sword and even took a clip from "Meteor Butterfly Sword" as a World of Warcraft video. World of Warcraft never has the ability to steal items from players, and the game's equipment is bound, so killing a player won't get you any equipment at all.
Yang Yongxin immediately by the media and netizens at home and abroad, and triggered a wide range of netizens' denunciation, he and CCTV's "First Line" column group said their cell phones and telephones are constantly receiving abuse, threats, slander calls, online Baidu posting bar on July 4, 2008, also more than two to "Yang Yongxin "Who turned the genius into a beast" as the name of the bar. Yang Yongxin's Linyi Internet Retreat Center is affiliated with the Fourth People's Hospital of Linyi, and CCTV's "Economic Half Hour" column exposed Yang Yongxin's Internet Retreat Center as having an income of 81 million yuan. Yang Yongxin and the Internet rehabilitation center he created and the entire Internet rehabilitation industry have been pushed to the cusp of public opinion.
The cost of treatment and accommodation at the center is around 6,000 yuan per month, and some netizens have criticized it for "treating Internet addiction", while Yang Yongxin said that the nature of the Internet Addiction Treatment Center of the Fourth People's Hospital of Linyi (a non-profit, nationally-owned institution) is based on the "Fees for Medical Institutions" issued jointly by the Shandong Provincial Pricing Bureau, Department of Health, and Department of Finance in 2000. The charges of "Medical Institutions Charge Items and Charge Standards" jointly issued by Shandong Provincial Price Bureau, Department of Health and Department of Finance are charged, and there is no overpricing for profit. On a legal level, it is equally controversial whether the hospital and Yang Yongxin's Internet addiction treatment center have the right to admit and treat Internet addicts. Since the Internet addiction treatment center did not obtain the appropriate qualification approval, it is questionable whether the Internet addiction treatment center can obtain the guardianship of the minors; for the adult "patients", it is even more difficult to circumvent the legal issues. Secondly, some people have questioned the need for patients to take a daily dose of anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication, but studies by Gao Zhifeng, Li Ning, Liu Binglun and others have confirmed that the use of anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication is effective in relieving the withdrawal symptoms of Internet addiction, as well as the impulse to surf the Internet or the restlessness to do so.
While an expert seminar on the diagnosis and treatment of Internet addiction held by the Ministry of Health has included Internet addiction in the scope of psychiatry , Kong Lingzhi, deputy director of the Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health, said at a news conference that Internet addiction could not be used as a diagnostic criterion for independent mental disorders, and that Yang's treatment center had been challenged by the media at the same time as a result. The schedule at the Internet Retreat Center is not as reasonable as advertised. Every day, they go to bed at 11:00 and get up at 6:00, and can only sleep for seven hours, while military training is all afternoon, and those receiving treatment at the center spend almost every day in muscle soreness. For the first fifteen days they could not go out to participate in activities, and the weekend's activities basically consisted of kowtowing isolettes, more than 1,000 at a time, for an entire morning. A standard isometric long head is to start from standing, then kneeling with both legs, hands together at the elbow and fall to the ground at the same time, hands stretched forward until the whole body is down, hands up to make a bow, and finally stand up, and there was once an "ally" who was punished for running away by doing 200 of them every night. At the same time, electroconvulsive therapy in the center is more common than the psychiatric department, as long as a little bit of bad work to be electric. There is also a punishment for picky eaters, eating water with pure cabbage and water boiled water radish.
Discharged "allies" of the treatment center also include:
1. easy to enter the hospital is difficult to discharge, the charges are very ambiguous.
Collecting fees is very easy, and there are many names. Charges are very not low; class deductions to parents to achieve the purpose of binding parents, very ambiguous standards, basically is a sentence of Yang Yongxin, parents of a few hundred dollars to get, such as: the use of parental pain in the child for electrotherapy to force parents to come up with a few hundred dollars to atone for their own behavior.
Admission without any reason can be, when discharged from the hospital must be presented with a "banner", or please "voluntarily" give up this month has paid the fee (2009 is 6500 / month).
2. Admission criteria and the vague concept of "Internet addiction".
There are no scientific, practical admission criteria. (basically the same as the admission criteria for psychiatric hospitals)
No diagnostic process for the disease of "Internet addiction". I can't explain the concept of "Internet addiction" to myself.
The piece of paper that the parents have to sign is the same kind of commissioning agreement that psychiatric hospitals sign when admitting mental patients.
3. Healers, care for life and respect human rights.
Forcing someone to kneel has also been questioned as to whether it should be included in the treatment program for Internet addiction, and, kneeling is not for one's parents, who have to kneel to him first.
The way and manner of being bound and beaten, which is only played out in a seriously mentally ill ward, is commonplace here.
4. Violation of human rights as well as privacy.
Young himself said in the class, "There is no privacy for anyone here." The so-called critique of the class is actually... The so-called critique class is in fact... a mandatory "airing" of one's privacy to the world. There's even a tracking video.
Before the law, the judge can judge the rights and wrongs of the people involved in the incident.
Yang Yongxin is not a judge, but an ordinary psychiatrist who graduated from a junior college, and has no right to judge the rights and wrongs of others. What Yang Yongxin's children at the Internet Retreat Center have been subjected to is a kind of mental brainwashing, or a kind of malicious misinformation, or even a personal attack.
5. Yang Yongxin did not conduct professional training and study of psychological courses, claimed to be a psychologist, or thought he had the ability to counsel.
And counselors are not allowed to go to their own will to persuade or even forcefully change the mind of the person being counseled, which is a big taboo for all professional counselors.
6. Thinking that one's own therapeutic methods can properly deal with "Internet addiction".
The emergence of a disease, especially the determination of mental illnesses, and the characterization of the disease will take a long time and require many experts and scholars to take into account the moral carrying capacity of the society and to follow the relevant laws of the country before it can be birthed. However, the theory promoted by YANG Yongxin is obviously full of loopholes, with acute problems avoided, ambiguous concepts, insufficient evidence and repeated emphasis on himself, which makes people question whether its existence can be regarded as a scientific theory that can normally support his treatment method. Worse still, he argued that psychological intervention to treat Internet addiction was ineffective and denied many well-known theories in psychology, as well as implicitly attacking numerous authoritative psychologists who had appeared on Psych Talk. In a report on May 12, 2009, China Central Television (CCTV) disclosed that the majority of those treated at Yang's center, who call each other "allies," range in age from 13 to more than 30, and are coaxed or forced by their parents to enter the center to receive treatment, a practice that the media said is suspected of illegally restricting their personal freedoms.
The Linyi center actually uses a combination of electric shocks, bondage, restrictions on personal freedom, personal worship and brainwashing, the discharged "allies" revealed.
The vast majority of the children who receive treatment are forcibly sent to the center, where they are called "allies," and in each ally's room is a map of the center's power structure, topped by the "director of the center," Yang Yongxin, whom the center calls "Uncle Yang," who is known as the "director of the center. The top is the "director of the center" Yang Yongxin (the center calls him "Uncle Yang"), and below that there are two bodies, the "Parents' Alliance Committee" and the "Alliance Class Meeting".
The "Parents' Committee" and the "Class Association" are responsible for supervising allies, and once an ally "behaves badly", he or she will be "circled" or "punished". If an ally does not perform well, he or she will be "circled" or "paid". "Extra circles" means drawing a circle after an ally's name, while accumulating five circles will require an electric shock.
The "cash point" is a form of electroshock therapy, and the "Required Readings for Admitted Allies" reads, "In this family, we must eliminate all bad habits of society. What we hate the most is the mouth is not the heart, the table is not the same, the words are not trustworthy, commitment but not promise, playing smart, backtracking, obsessive, violating any one of them is the same as electrocution, to do physical therapy, also known as wake-up treatment, commonly known as the point of cash."
Will be "point cash" behavior *** there are 86 articles, specific such as "7:30 ~ 17:30 in the small room hanging clothes", "review the classroom private transfer seats ", "fooling parents into wanting to go home", "eating chocolate", "taking pills on an empty stomach", "ally sitting without permission in Uncle Yang's chair without permission" and "locking the door when going to the restroom", etc. Abstracts subject to adjudication such as "serious mentality problem" and "lack of executive power", "challenging Uncle Yang's model" and "carrying unacceptable emotions in the critique class".
Violation of any of the 86 rules is punishable by a "very painful" electric shock treatment. The treatment was "low-dose electrostimulation for Internet addiction" using illegal devices that have been discontinued as convulsive electroconvulsive devices, until they were stopped.
Yang Yongxin used the DX-II type of therapeutic instrument, although the vice chairman of the World Psychiatric Association's Committee on Psychiatric Diagnostic and Classification Criteria said in an interview with Xiaokang magazine that Yang Yongxin's use of the DX-II scientific research has proved to be safe and effective in actual use. However, the program "News Investigation: Internet Addiction Cessation" was confirmed by experts from Beijing's renowned psychiatric hospital, Beijing Settlement Hospital, to have side effects and no production license, and was banned from use by the industry, while Dr. Ark Fang, a biology doctor who stayed in the U.S., published an article stating that, by applying electric shocks to the brain to induce convulsions and change the function of the brain, the mechanism of which is still unknown but damage to the memory and cognitive function is known; Yang Yongxin's treatment method have violated international practice and World Health Organization requirements.
The treatment method of electric shock therapy has caused widespread controversy, for which many netizens consider inhumane and a coercive means, violating children's human rights and even offending the Law on the Protection of Minors. .
Since 2009, Yang has switched to a low-frequency pulse therapy device that meets Ministry of Health standards. Initially, reports appearing in the mainstream media mostly praised Yang, with some media releasing the documentary "Battle Net Devil" and a book of the same name to publicize it, as well as other TV stations and newspapers and magazines publishing corresponding documentary reports.
But from April 2009, the media began to question Yang's treatment. After his forums were hacked, some media outlets conducted follow-up investigations, including the Information Times, which published articles such as "The Process of Quitting Addiction is Like Being Tortured in a Concentration Camp," and Guo Jianlong, a reporter for the 21st Century Business Herald, who concluded that Yang "actually destroys the child's resistance and self-confidence, making him or her fearful, and then temporarily giving in," arguing that Yang's approach is similar to a pyramid scheme.
In early May 2009, Guangzhou Daily published an article titled "What's Worse Than Internet Addiction", which said that Wu Xujing, the "Internet-addicted girl" in "Battle of the Net Demons", was actually in her twenties and already had a master's degree in psychology, and that from any angle, Wu did not have what is known as "Internet addiction". ". If Yang Yongxin's center is the cessation of Internet addiction, then his center has no logical basis for accepting Wu Xujing. The article questioned whether Yang Yongxin was quitting Internet addiction or quitting "disobedience" and lamented the huge business opportunity of helping parents make their children "obedient"; on May 7, 2009, China Youth Daily's reporters Bai Xue and Wang Yejie published in the column of the economic feature "The Ecosystem of an Internet Cessation Center", "Internet Cessation Experts", and "The Ecosystem of an Internet Cessation Center". The ecosystem of an online discipline center", "Internet quitting expert" electroshock treatment controversy" and other articles, Yang Yongxin and his creation of Linyi online discipline center pulled to the media spotlight, a time in the media and the network has caused strong controversy.
The parents of the Linyi Internet Retreat Center's "family committee" also fired back, claiming that the article was grossly inaccurate, and that many of the parents believed that the general public simply couldn't understand the damage that Internet addiction had done to their families, and that they recognized Yang Yongxin's methods of electroshock and medication through the signing of an agreement, and that some of the parents had even taken the initiative to request electroshock therapy for their children. children for electric shock treatment. . Yang Yongxin used electric stimulation treatment on his patients, because the safety and effectiveness of the treatment were still uncertain, on July 8, 2009, the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Health on Stopping the Clinical Application of Electric Stimulation (or Electroconvulsive Shock) Technology for the Treatment of Internet Addiction" said, "Experts agreed that the safety and effectiveness of the technology for the treatment of Internet addiction with electric stimulation (or Electroconvulsive Shock) is not yet known. Experts agreed that the safety and effectiveness of electric stimulation (or electroconvulsive shock) technology for the treatment of Internet addiction is still uncertain, and there is no relevant clinical research and evidence-based medicine at home and abroad, and it is not appropriate to be applied in the clinic for the time being." The Department of Health of Shandong Province stopped the clinical application of electrostimulation (or electroconvulsive therapy) for the treatment of Internet addiction in the relevant medical institutions under its jurisdiction. And requires that if scientific research is carried out, it should be declared in accordance with the provisions of the approval shall fully respect the subject's right to know and right to choose, and shall not charge the relevant fees."
After calling a halt to electroshock therapy, many netizens celebrated a "victory" from news commentaries to major forums to Baidu postings. In an interview with Caijing.com, Cui Yicai, vice president of operations at the Fourth People's Hospital in Linyi City, Shandong Province, said the hospital stopped the treatment when the media questioned it. However, Cui did not say whether Yang and the hospital had been penalized. The hospital continues to accept quitters for treatment. Gamers have reacted strongly to Yang's and related reports criticizing online games, and have even made sarcastic comments about them. It was common for people on the Internet to call him "Sheep Barking Beast", "Uncle Sheep", etc., and some people produced videos spoofing him. A web game "Magic Musket Corps" also designed the enemy leader "Goat Horned Beast", with "micro-current" skills, the advertisement even directly claimed "challenge the Goat Barking Beast", spoof! After the video clip "Magnetic Storm Infantry Yang Yongxin's Fury" was circulated on the Internet, Yang Yongxin was given a new nickname in some entertainment reports.
At the same time, the main reason for the birth of the popular Internet language "He Wai Therapeutic" was also taken from Yang's electroshock treatment, the full text of which reads, "Why did you give up the treatment?
The world's largest Chinese-language community, Baidu PostBar, recently released its "Top 10 Most Popular Hot Words of 2013" voted on by its users, with "Tuohao" topping the list with 77.7 percent of the votes. The words "我伙呆" and "何弃疗" followed with 68% and 60.4% of the votes respectively, ranking second and third. The rest of the seven most popular words were "come to the bowl", "not clear", "hidden merits and fame", "posture", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people", "people" and "people".
These words are: "come to the bowl", "unknown", "deep hiding", "posture", "hard not to tear down", "what do you think of Yuanfang", and "joyful".
The main cause of "He abandoned treatment" is that Yang Yongxin's treatment of Internet-addicted teenagers through electroshock therapy has been criticized by the public, and the therapy has since been asked to stop being used, Yang Yongxin sent out a question of "why give up the treatment", which netizens now use to The question "Why did you give up the treatment?" is now used by netizens to ridicule and self-hatred to express the meaning of "You have a disease, go and get cured".