Article 2T48E Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction

Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction

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Joanna Walters in Redmond, Washington
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At a cabin in the Washington state woods, the reSTART center helps residents withdraw from technology that has consumed their lives

By the time Marshall Carpenter's father broke down the barricaded door of his son's apartment and physically ripped him away from his electronic devices, the 25-year-old was in a bad way. He could not bear to live a life that didn't involve hours upon hours of uninterrupted screen time.

"I was playing video games 14 or 15 hours a day, I had Netflix on a loop in the background, and any time there was the tiniest break in any of that, I would be playing a game on my phone or sending lonely texts to ex-girlfriends," Carpenter says.

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