Parco.gov.gr: Up to 80% of children with mental disorders are addicted to the internet, explains psychiatrist [Video]

The framework of the national strategy for the protection of children from addiction to the Internet was presented today, Monday 30 December 2024, by Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis at a special event.

Subsequently, the special website parco.gov.gr was launched, to provide parents with a control tool to ensure their children’s safe navigation on social media. Soon to be added to the parental control toolbox will be the Kids Wallet, an app through which will be given the ability to not only time limit children’s mobile use but also the content they are exposed to.

Ms. Stella Christidi, psychiatrist, director of the 18 Ano rehabilitation unit of the Attica Psychiatric Hospital of Attica and scientific manager of the unit’s Department of Problematic Internet Use, who participated in the event, explains to protothema.gr that addiction starts from childhood:

“Boys usually from 6 to 7 with gaming, a little later girls with social media, Instagram, TikTok. The immediate ‘reward’ that the internet offers children …