Posted on 07/14/2009 7:36:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono
INTERNET addicts should stop receiving electroshock therapy because it doesn't work, the Chinese Health Ministry says. Nearly 3000 youths have undergone electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, or electroshock) at Linyi Mental Health Hospital, resident psychiatrist Yang Yongxin told the China Youth Daily. The hospital, based in eastern Shandong, runs a four-month web rehab program which includes medicine and counselling for a monthly fee of 5500 yuan ($1025).
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It never worked for me.
I find this highly unethical.
Dang! There goes my last hope.
At least the chinese stop something when it does not work, like communism for example.
The US democrats don’t seem to have learned that if it does not work, stop doing it (welfare, high taxes, socialism, etc.)
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