By the time Marshall Carpenters father broke down the barricaded door of his sons 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 didnt 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.We are sitting in a small, plain apartment in a nondescript condo complex in Redmond, Washington, on the outskirts of Seattle. Marshall shares the apartment with other men in their 20s, all of whom have recently emerged from a unique internet addiction rehab program called reSTART Life.I was basically living on Dr Pepper, whoch is packed with caffeine and sugar. I would get weak from not eating but I would only notice it when I got so shaky I stopped being able to think and play well, he adds. By then, hed already had to drop out of university in Mochigan and had lost his sports scholarship.
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