{"id":992517,"date":"2026-02-16T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992517"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:59:50","slug":"2309-children-given-clinical-help-as-digital-addiction-takes-heavy-toll-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/2309-children-given-clinical-help-as-digital-addiction-takes-heavy-toll-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"2,309 children given clinical help as digital addiction takes heavy toll in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: In November, the parents of a Class VIII student in Ernakulam found that their 12-year-old son had transferred nearly `1 lakh from his mother\u2019s bank account to a classmate to buy a newly launched mobile phone. Though the money was recovered through the intervention of parents and teachers, the boy became socially withdrawn and began displaying anti-social behaviour, prompting the family to seek help from a clinical psychologist. <\/p>\n<p>In another incident last month, a 16-year-old girl from Chottanikkara was found dead in a quarry, leaving behind a note suggesting distress over the alleged suicide of a Korean friend she had met on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: In November, the parents of a Class VIII student in Ernakulam found that their 12-year-old son had transferred nearly `1 lakh from his mother\u2019s bank account to a classmate to buy a newly launched mobile phone. Though the money was recovered through the intervention of parents and teachers, the boy became socially withdrawn and began displaying anti-social behaviour, prompting the family to seek help from a clinical psychologist. In another incident last month, a 16-year-old girl from Chottanikkara was found dead in a quarry, leaving behind a note suggesting distress over the alleged suicide of a Korean friend she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}