' V! f8 W; D; g3 c) K! w5 J去年下半年的一天,中国甘肃省灵台一中高一的学生李杰,在期末考试前两天突然失踪,警方经两天的寻找,发现了李杰。但他已是极度昏迷,虽经抢救,最后李杰还是去世了。经过最后的确认,发现李杰是属于服毒自杀。他的父母认为李杰是因玩网游而中了网毒。他的高中老师说,李杰进了学校后,每天晚上都偷偷溜出去,到附近的网吧上网玩游戏。他是从上网到玩游戏成瘾,到最终服毒自杀的。! b( E5 \) s- O
* C+ y" j& M! J! j _9 M" u2 b警察找到了李杰给同学写的一封信,可以发现他的痛苦和解脱:“我喜欢总是在虚幻中想象,可让人心碎的现实,却又是让人那么的难堪,可是无论怎么说,它都可以使人迷失一切,迷失了生活的目标,迷失了活着的意义······如果我身体上有个伤口,我一直会把它往大里撕,在钻心的疼痛下,看它慢慢裂开,渗出鲜血,一滴滴流下,我感到一种从未有的欣慰。”! A, ^- C' E' H5 M
5 J1 \; d P' _! }2 P李杰的网瘾和死亡之路,经媒体报导,在社会引起了震惊,尤其是使家长们开始警觉自己孩子的网瘾的程度和后果。: ^$ O! M5 Z) w, H: Y" s2 }% }
- H+ u& s: d& v* Q4 e# x- ?北京军区总医院网络上瘾治疗中心(Treatment Centre for Internet Addicts)主任陶然说:长期上网,李杰又不和家人交流,他自我评价特别低,他觉得他在这个社会上是无用的,所以他就走向一个结束生命来自杀的后果,结束自己的痛苦,这是一个规律。我们所有接触的孩子(网瘾少年),都变得性格非常内向、孤僻、怪异、敏感、多疑,最后走向厌世、自杀,都是走向这么一个阶段。. S$ P4 ]4 B ~: K* j" ]
The Times January 18, 2007& j" |9 \8 R: B
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Two million teenagers hooked on internet . V( Y. i9 r3 U) m! \, _+ z& M. B# gChinese teenagers are becoming addicted to the internet, partly as a consequence of the strict “one-couple, one-child” rule that has created a generation of lonely, spoilt children. & `' _- Q8 h# ? * \4 R; W+ S# Y( X8 OAn expert told The Times that two million youngsters were affected. The Government is on the verge of implementing new rules restricting the hours that people can spend playing online games.
Addicts in China are on average ten years younger than those in the West, the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found — between 14 and 19 instead of 20 and 30. Gao Wenbin, a researcher, said: “They are more susceptible.” Most of the addicts are transfixed by online games rather than the virtual relationships and pornographic videos that interest their Western counterparts. As many as 15 per cent of internet players in this age group need help because their preoccupation with the virtual world damages their real-world life, the study concluded. Mr Gao said: “The percentage is astounding. This can be the highest in the world.” China already has the world’s second-largest internet population, after the US, with 123 million people online, of whom 15 per cent are under 18. Tao Ran, the director of the Treatment Centre for Internet Addicts in Beijing, said the one-child policy meant that children had no company at home. There was also a real lack of sports facilities. At the same time broadband had spread so quickly that many parents had little knowledge of the internet and could not guide their children. “They see the internet as a toy when it is a tool,” he said. The researchers said that the addiction was already leading to rising crime among young people. “Boys, like young male animals, need to play games,” Mr Gao said. However, games available to children at school were not particularly exciting for boys on the verge of adulthood and the teenagers were turning to the virtual world, or to crime, as an outlet for their energy. The boys became frustrated when they realised that it was not enough to have good scores in school. They also wanted girlfriends, money and to be athletic. With no other way to solve these problems in a society that frowned on teenage relationships, boys went online to solve their frustrations. Mr Tao, who runs the military-sponsored clinic that is China’s first centre treating internet addiction, said that China needed measures similar to those in other countries that limit the time people can play online games. “At the end of this month, China will adopt such a measure. Some cities will limit usage to five hours, others will restrict it to three.” State media said last week that there had been a 68 per cent rise in juvenile crime in five years and that the figure would continue to rise.