Prevention and correction

In abounding cases, admitting not all, Internet overuse corrects itself. Sarah Kershaw wrote for the New York Times in 2005: "It was Professor Kiesler who alleged Internet addiction a fad illness. In her view, she said, television addiction is worse. She added that she was commutual a abstraction of abundant Internet users, which showed the majority had acutely bargain their time on the computer over the advance of a year, advertence that alike ambiguous use was self-corrective."39

Corrective strategies accommodate content-control software, counseling, and cerebral behavioural therapy.40414243 One of the above affidavit that the Internet is so accepted is the abridgement of banned and the absence of accountability.44

Families in the People's Republic of China accept angry to actionable training camps that action to "wean" their children, generally in their teens, from overuse of the Internet. The training camps accept been associated with the afterlife of at atomic one youth.45

In August 2009, ReSTART, a residential analysis centermost for "pathological computer use", opened abreast Seattle, Washington, United States.46 It offers a 45-day affairs advised to advice bodies wean themselves from dissection computer use, and can handle up to six patients at a time.47

In November 2009, the government of the People's Republic of China banned concrete abuse to "wean" adolescence from the Internet. Electro-shock analysis had already been banned