Female student addicted to Facebook, had to be drugged and taken to hospital
When the internet was cut off, H. reacted violently, smashing things, cursing, and fighting back against his parents, forcing the family to drug him and take him to a mental hospital.
Dr. To Thanh Phuong, Deputy Director of Central Psychiatric Hospital 1, said that the case of female student NTTH (18 years old, Hanoi) being treated at the Female Acute Department is a typical case of depression due to social media addiction. More specifically, the parents of this female student had to force and use anesthesia to take their child to the hospital.
Sharing rather cautiously, the father of female student H. could not hide his torment. The father said that before entering grade 12, H. was an excellent student, very obedient, every year was selected to participate in the national excellent student competition and won high prizes.
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However, when entering her final year of high school, for the past 4 months, his daughter's personality has changed abnormally, she has become withdrawn, doesn't socialize with friends, and her academic performance has declined.
From here, the parents started to monitor H., discovering that their daughter spent all day on her phone. When her friends invited her to visit her teachers on November 20, she didn't go. She didn't even come down for meals. Many days, she stayed up until 2-3am or went to the bathroom with the lights off just to surf the internet.
“In mid-December, I suddenly came home from work in the middle of the day and saw my daughter skipping school to stay home with her phone. After failing to advise her, my wife and I decided to cut off the internet. Immediately after that, she showed unusual behavior that we could not have expected,” H.’s father said.
He said H. reacted very violently, initially smashing things in the house, then cursing and even fighting back against his parents.
H.'s parents invited a psychologist to their home, but H. did not cooperate because she believed she was not sick. Finally, following the doctor's advice, the family had to drug her to take her to the hospital.
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In the case of female student H., Dr. Phuong said that he is applying a treatment regimen for depression. However, H. is currently not cooperating, so in addition to taking medication, she needs great support and psychological encouragement from her family.
According to Dr. Phuong, there are more and more cases of depression due to addiction to phones, Facebook, and games that require hospitalization. From low frequency, patients gradually only like to play with their phones, avoiding the outside world.
“In the first 6 months, the patient is in the acute stage and treatment requires at least 6 months. If the addiction lasts longer than 6 months, it will become chronic and the treatment time can last 3-5 years,” Dr. Phuong emphasized.
Doctors recommend that parents spend more time with their children to detect early and intervene promptly.
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