This is a case where I was consulted by a student's mother last year when I went to a public junior high school in the Kanto region."My son doesn't go to school today ..." she said with a serious face.She was strongly scolded her grades, and her son, Keisuke Yamazaki (a pseudonym), stayed in her room for about a year before the lecture and entered the Internet game day and night.I started to soak.She had picked up his computer to quit the game, but it was counterproductive because he shouted, thrown and tapped.
Until he rely on the online game, she was quite good, but she still blamed Keisuke every day.But each time, he became exaggerated, and he tends to be absent from school.He said he had finally stopped going to school since he went on to his second year.
"Net dependence" is a serious problem worldwide
"I think I can't graduate because I don't have enough attendance days. My son doesn't want to go to school anymore."
It is unlikely that a public junior high school will not be able to graduate, and he is still a second -year junior high school student.Even if school refusal continues, you can cover your academic ability if you use correspondence education.But the more problematic is his situation, who is unlikely to recover on his own.
If "online dependence" continues for nearly a year like him, you have to rely on medical institutions for treatment.I introduced her a hospital with an outpatient clinic specializing in internet.However, due to the flood of inquiries, it is said that the hospital cannot respond immediately.While there are still few medical institutions in Japan that can treat online addiction, the number of patients they want to consult is increasing year by year.
Net addiction emphasizes the use of the Internet rather than everyday life, physical and mental health, human relationships, and cannot control the use time.The biggest problem is that it hinders real life.Overseas, some people immersed in the Internet for several days have died in economy class syndrome.
Apple, known for the iPhone and others, announced on June 4 that it will install a new function that can limit the use time of the application as a "smartphone addiction countermeasure" in the next -generation software "iOS12".Google has also begun to provide a service "family link" that can limit apps and terminal use since last year, and online dependence is now a world -wide problem.