{"id":4761,"date":"2018-10-10T21:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2018-10-10T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:08:21","slug":"man-is-treated-for-an-addiction-to-netflix-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/10\/10\/man-is-treated-for-an-addiction-to-netflix-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Man is treated for an addiction to NETFLIX in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unemployed man is being treated for an addiction to Netflix\u00a0at a &#8216;digital rehab&#8217; clinic in India in a first of its kind case for the country.<br \/>\nDoctors in Bangalore said the 26-year-old began streaming films and TV shows to shut out reality by binge-watching shows for more than seven hours a day.<br \/>\nThe severe addiction led to eye strains, exhaustion and an erratic sleeping pattern that wreaked havoc on the man&#8217;s health.<br \/>\nIt has not been revealed what shows he watched.<br \/>\nNetflix India features the usual US and European series as well as an array of\u00a0Bollywood movies and Indian programmes.<br \/>\nThe anonymous man is now under the care of doctors at a clinic at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience in Bangalore.<br \/>\nThe rehab centre helps patients drug and alcohol problems, as well as addictions to technology, including gaming and social media.<br \/>\nDr Manoj Kumar Sharma, professor of clinical psychology at the clinic, said:\u00a0&#8216;Whenever his family pressurised him to earn a living, or when he saw his friends doing well, he would watch the shows on offer continuously.<br \/>\n&#8216;It was a method of escapism. He could forget about his problems, and he derived immense pleasure from it,&#8217; he told\u00a0<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe man&#8217;s addiction was so severe that he would turn Netflix on the moment he woke up every morning, Dr Sharma revealed.<br \/>\nHe added that once a show was playing man was unable to exercise any form of\u00a0self-control.<br \/>\nDoctors are using meditation and careers advice as well as traditional therapy to treat the man.<br \/>\nStreaming platforms are designed to provide instant gratification, prompting viewers to watch hours at a time to match their underlying moods, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Hindu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unemployed man is being treated for an addiction to Netflix\u00a0at a &#8216;digital rehab&#8217; clinic in India in a first of its kind case for the country. Doctors in Bangalore said the 26-year-old began streaming films and TV shows to shut out reality by binge-watching shows for more than seven hours a day. The severe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}