Teens in withdrawal treatment techno

Amélie St-Yves

Tuesday, 27 February, 2018 22:53

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SAINT-CELESTIN | A quarantine of young people who have tantrums when their parents have disconnected the Wi-Fi, which never slept more, got more or did more in school to be more often online have been treated in therapy closed in Quebec in the past three years.

The majority of the adolescents cyberdépendants are addicted to online games. However, in this world day without Facebook, the coordinator of professional services at the Centre on the Grand Chemin of Saint-Célestin, in Mauricie, Miguel Therriault, believes that we should not under-estimate the addictive likes.

“We will never see a person dependent of Word or Excel. These are not programs addictive. There is no feedback of social media, no answer that allows you to live a pleasure, a satisfaction, a feeling of success. It is this response that becomes addictive, ” says the one who treats them in its center.

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Miguel Therriault
Coordinator

The cyberdépendance is on the rise in Québec, as elsewhere in the Western world.

Teens cyberdépendants come to prefer their online lives to their actual lives. Only the severe cases are coming to the therapy with accommodation, when their avatars in World of Warcraft become the center of their lives.

“The first thing, for the teens who come here, it is to resume the basic needs : sleep well, eat well. Hygiene is also something that jumps fast enough with the cyberdépendance, ” he says.

Long cures

The teenagers stay an average of six to seven weeks at the center, during which they are treated in the same groups as those suffering from addiction to alcohol or drugs.

Their level of obsession appears as soon as one removes the cell. “We have young people who will live the anguish, the anxiety. It is important that they are well supported, ” explains Mr. Therriault.

The centres of the Great Journey have received a hundred calls from concerned parents since the publication in December of the documentary Bye, Alexandre Taillefer.