Immediately, Yang Yongxin received extensive attention from media and netizens at home and abroad, and caused condemnation from netizens. He and CCTV's "First Line" column group said that their mobile phones and telephones kept receiving abusive, threatening and slanderous calls. On July 4th, 2008, Baidu Post Bar added two posts named "Yang Yongxin" and "Who turned genius into Warcraft". Yang Yongxin's Linyi Internet Ring Center belongs to the Fourth People's Hospital of Linyi City. CCTV's "Economic Half-hour" column exposed Yang Yongxin Internet Ring Center and recorded 8 1 10,000 yuan. Yang Yongxin, the Internet quit center he founded, and the whole Internet quit industry have been pushed to the forefront of public opinion.
The treatment and accommodation fee of the Internet addiction treatment center is about 6,000 yuan per month, and some netizens criticized it for using the name of "treating Internet addiction". Yang Yongxin said that the nature of the Internet addiction treatment center of Linyi Fourth People's Hospital (non-profit owned by the whole people) is based on the charging items and standards of medical institutions jointly issued by Shandong Provincial Price Bureau, Health Department and Finance Department in 2000, and there is no high-priced profit. On the legal level, it is also controversial whether the Internet addiction treatment hospitals and institutions in Yang Yongxin case have the right to treat Internet addiction patients. Because the Internet Ring Center has not obtained the corresponding qualification examination and approval, it is a problem whether the Internet Ring Center can obtain the custody of minors. For adult "patients", its legal problems are more difficult to avoid. Secondly, patients in the Internet addiction center need to take a certain dose of anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs every day. Some people question this, but studies by Gao Zhifeng, Li Ning, Liu Binglun and others have confirmed that taking anti-anxiety drugs and antidepressants can effectively alleviate the withdrawal symptoms of Internet addiction and the impulse or anxiety of surfing the Internet.
Although the expert seminar on diagnosis and treatment of Internet addiction held by the Ministry of Health has included Internet addiction into the category of psychiatry, Kong Lingzhi, deputy director of the Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health, said at the press conference that Internet addiction cannot be used as an independent diagnostic standard for mental disorders, and Yang Yongxin's treatment center was also questioned by the media. The schedule of the Internet Ring Center is not as reasonable as advertised. Go to bed every day 1 1, get up at 6 o'clock, and only sleep for 7 hours. Military training is an afternoon, and people who receive treatment in the center spend almost every day in muscle pain. You can't go out to participate in activities for the first fifteen days. Weekend activities are basically knocking on my body and head, knocking 1000 times in the morning. A standard isometric head, starting from standing, then bending your knees, crossing your elbows and landing at the same time, stretching your hands forward until your whole body is down, arching your hands up, and finally standing up. Once, an "ally" was fined 200 yuan for running away. At the same time, the application of electroconvulsive therapy in the center is more common than in the psychiatric department. As long as it is not done well, it will be charged. There is also a punishment for picky eaters. Pure cabbage eats clear water and boiled radish with clear water.
The discharged "allies" questioned this treatment center, including:
1. Admission is easier than discharge, and the fees are ambiguous.
It's easy to charge, and there are many names. The charging standard is not low; In order to restrain parents in class, the vague standards are basically Yang Yongxin's words. Parents take hundreds of dollars, for example, using parents to take care of their children's electrotherapy to intimidate parents into taking out hundreds of dollars to atone for their actions.
You can enter the hospital for no reason, you must show a "banner" when you leave the hospital, or you can "voluntarily" give up the fees paid this month (6,500 yuan/month in 2009).
2. Access criteria and vague concept of "Internet addiction".
There is no scientific and practical admission standard. (basically the same as the admission criteria for mental hospitals)
There is no diagnosis process of "Internet addiction". I can't explain the concept of "Internet addiction" clearly.
The paper for parents to sign is the entrustment agreement signed by various mental hospitals when treating mental patients.
3. Doctors care about life and respect human rights.
Whether forcing people to kneel should be included in the treatment of internet addiction has also been questioned. And it's not their parents who kneel down. They should kneel down to him first.
Being tied up and beaten, which can only be done in severe psychiatric wards, is a common occurrence here.
4. Violation of human rights and privacy.
Yang Yongxin himself said in class, "No one's privacy exists here". The so-called comment class is actually ... forcing your privacy to "dry up" in the world. There are even tracking videos.
Before the law, the judge can judge the right and wrong of people in the event.
Yang Yongxin is not a judge, but an ordinary psychologist who graduated from technical secondary school. He has no right to judge others' right and wrong. The children in Yang Yongxin Internet Ring Center are mentally brainwashed, or maliciously misled, or even attacked personally.
5. Yang Yongxin doesn't have any professional psychological training and study. He calls himself a psychologist or thinks he has the ability of psychological consultation.
Psychological counselors can't use their own will to persuade or even forcibly change the client's mind, which is a taboo for all professional psychological counselors.
6. I think my treatment can properly handle "Internet addiction".
The emergence of a disease, especially the judgment of mental illness, will be characterized after a long time, and many experts and scholars need to consider the social and moral endurance and follow the relevant laws of the country before they can conceive it. However, Yang Yongxin's own theory is obviously full of loopholes, avoiding sharp questions, vague concepts and insufficient evidence, and repeatedly emphasizing himself, which makes people question whether its existence can normally support its treatment as a scientific theory. What's more, he thinks that psychological intervention is ineffective in treating Internet addiction, and denies many famous theories of psychology and argot attacks many authoritative psychologists who appeared in Psychological Interview. CCTV reported on May 12, 2009 that the patients in Yang Yongxin's Internet Ring Center who called each other "allies" ranged in age from 13 to their thirties, and most of them were coaxed or forced to be sent to the Internet Ring Center for treatment by their parents. The media said that this practice was suspected of illegally restricting personal freedom.
Under the disclosure of discharged "allies", Linyi Internet Ring Center actually uses a set of "therapy" that integrates electric shock, binding, restriction of personal freedom, personality worship and brainwashing.
The vast majority of children receiving treatment were sent by force. They are called "allies". Every ally's room has a power structure diagram of the center of the internet ring. At the top is Yang Yongxin, director of the Internet Ring Center (the center calls him "Uncle Yang"), and there are two organizations, the Parents' Youth League Committee and the League Class Meeting.
The "family Committee" and "class meeting" are responsible for supervising allies. Once an ally "does not perform well", it will be "circled" or "paid in cash". "Circle" means to draw a circle after an ally's name. A total of five circles require electric shock.
"Cash" is electroshock therapy, which says in "Required Reading for Hospitalized Allies": "In this big family, we should put an end to all bad habits in society. What we hate most is duplicity, duplicity, treachery, dishonesty, cleverness, reneging on one's word and obstinacy. Violation of any of them is equivalent to electric shock, and physical therapy is also called refreshing therapy, commonly known as cash. "
There are 86 kinds of "counting money", such as "hanging clothes in a small room at 7:30- 17:30", "changing seats privately in the classroom", "fooling parents into wanting to go home", "eating chocolate", "taking medicine on an empty stomach", "allies sitting in Uncle Yang's chair without authorization" and "locking the door when going to the toilet".
Anyone who violates any of these 86 articles will be treated with "quite painful" electric shock. The treatment method is to use the illegal convulsive electroconvulsive equipment that has been stopped "to treat Internet addiction with low-dose electrical stimulation" until it is stopped.
The DX-II therapeutic instrument used by Yang Yongxin, although the vice chairman of the Committee of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification of the World Psychiatric Association said in an interview with Xiaokang magazine that the DX-II used by Yang Yongxin was proved to be safe and effective. However, the program news survey: Internet addiction cessation was confirmed by experts from Beijing Anding Hospital, a famous mental hospital in Beijing, and was banned from the industry without a production license. However, Dr. Fang, a biologist studying in the United States, published an article saying that the mechanism of inducing convulsion and changing brain function by applying electric shock to the brain is still unclear, but memory and cognitive function are impaired. Yang Yongxin's treatment violates international practice and the requirements of the World Health Organization.
Electroshock therapy has caused widespread controversy. Many netizens think that this therapy is inhuman and a coercive means, which violates children's human rights and even violates the Law on the Protection of Minors. .
Since 2009, Yang Yongxin has switched to a low-frequency pulse therapeutic instrument that meets the standards of the Ministry of Health. At first, most of the reports in the mainstream media were praise for Yang Yongxin. Some media released the documentary "Battle.net Magic" and books of the same name for publicity, and other TV stations and newspapers also published corresponding disciplinary reports.
However, since April 2009, the media began to question Yang's treatment. After its forum was hacked, some media conducted a follow-up investigation. Among them, the Information Times published articles such as "Getting rid of drug addiction is like being punished in a concentration camp", while Guo, a reporter of 2 1 Century Business Herald, concluded that Yang Yongxin "actually destroyed children's resistance and self-confidence, made them feel scared, and then temporarily gave in", and thought that Yang Yongxin's methods were similar to pyramid schemes.
At the beginning of May, 2009, Guangzhou Daily published the article "What is more terrible than Internet addiction", calling the magic "Internet addiction girl" Wu, actually in her twenties, with a master's degree in psychology. No matter from what angle, Wu has no so-called "Internet addiction". If Yang Yongxin's center is to treat Internet addiction, then his center has no logical basis to accept Wu. The article questions whether Yang Yongxin is abstaining from Internet addiction or "disobedience" and laments the huge business opportunities to help parents make their children "obedient". On May 7th, 2009, reporters Bai Xue and Wang of China Youth Daily published articles such as "The Ecosystem of Internet Addiction Center" and "The Electroshock Therapy of Internet Addiction Experts is Controversial" in the economic column, which made Yang Yongxin and his Linyi Internet Addiction Center become the focus of media attention, and caused a strong controversy in the media and online for a time.
In this regard, the parents of the "Family Committee" of Linyi Net Ring Center also issued a counterattack, claiming that this article was seriously inaccurate. Many parents think that the general public can't understand the harm that Internet addiction brings to their families. They approved Yang Yongxin's electric shock and drug treatment methods by signing an agreement, and even some parents volunteered to give their children electric shock treatment. . The safety and effectiveness of electrical stimulation therapy for patients in Yang Yongxin are uncertain. On July 8, 2009, the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Health on Stopping the Clinical Application of Electrical Stimulation (or Electric Shock) in the Treatment of Internet Addiction stated that "experts agree that the safety and effectiveness of electrical stimulation (or electric shock) in the treatment of Internet addiction are uncertain, and there is no relevant clinical research and evidence-based medical basis at home and abroad, so it is not suitable for clinical application for the time being." So as to stop the clinical application of electrical stimulation (or electric shock) to treat internet addiction in medical institutions within the jurisdiction of Shandong Provincial Health Department. If it is also required to carry out scientific research, it must be declared according to regulations. After the examination and approval, the subjects' right to know and choose should be fully respected, and relevant fees should not be charged. "
After stopping electroshock therapy, from news comments to major forums to Baidu Post Bar, many netizens are celebrating "victory". Cui, vice president of the Fourth People's Hospital of Linyi City, Shandong Province, said in an interview that the hospital stopped this therapy when the media questioned it. However, Cui Cai Yi did not disclose whether Yang Yongxin and the hospital were punished. The hospital continues to receive treatment from addicts. Gamers reacted strongly and even sarcastically to Yang Yongxin's criticism of online games and related reports. People often call them "sheep call animals" and "uncle sheep" on the Internet. Someone made a video to spoof. A web game "Magic Musketeer" also designed the enemy leader "claw beast", which has the skill of "micro-current", and the advertisement even claimed to "challenge the sheep to call the beast". Yang Yongxin added a new nickname to some entertainment reports after the spoof video short film "The Wrath of Magnetic Storm Infantry Yang Yongxin" spread on the Internet.
At the same time, the main reason for the birth of the online buzzword "He Qichat" is also based on the electric shock treatment in Yang Yongxin, and the full text is "Why give up treatment".
Baidu Post Bar, the world's largest Chinese community, recently released the "Top Ten Most Popular Hot Words on the Internet in 20 13" selected by its friends, and "Tuhao" topped the list with 77.7% of the votes. I'm with Others and He Qichat are followed by 68% and 60.4% respectively, ranking second and third. The remaining seven hot words are "Come to the bowl", "I don't know what to do", "I have hidden all my merits and fame", "I stand up", "What do you think of Fiona Fang" and "I'm glad I have made great progress".
Among them, the main cause of "Harmony Therapy" was that Yang Yongxin was criticized by the public for treating young people with Internet addiction through electroshock therapy, and then the therapy was required to stop using. Yang Yongxin put forward the question "Why give up treatment", which is now used by netizens to ridicule and humiliate themselves, expressing the meaning of "You are sick, treat it quickly".