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Were quite proud of you. >> congratulations. >> congrats. >> congrats. >> how do you feel? >> pretty good. >> awesome to hear. thank you for letting us be part of it. after this john will move on to phase two moving back into the real world. do you feel nervous at all about being out in the world again? >> there will be some tough times since there is so much technology but i made a lot of progress here. i think things will be a lot better now. >> move fast and break things. thats the motto in s...

Or maybe anime and go through the youtube rabbit hole. also, pornography was a big thing too. >> how much time on youtube? >> youtube could be all day sometimes and then not on technology i would be sleeping or sometimes not sleep. >> there were days you didnt sleep? >> yeah. i would just stay up playing video games all night kind of like if a fantasy world which is almost infinite possibilities compared to real life. >> where are you going? hey, jonathan! >> as a kid, john had a big personality...

>> i guess as a kid i was more outgoing a little more social. as i got more into technology, i stopped being as social as i was. i really just stopped trusting people, too. >> have you ever had a romantic relationship? >> no. i always avoided both girls and relationships. >> john traces the root of his difficulties back to a single moment in childhood when a trauma changed his life. >> i was sexually abused. by by a maid we had. and so i think that really started the trust issues. >> after the a...

Two of those parents jerry and charlene used to be true believers. >> we love technology. we live and breathe it. but i think its easy to overlook human connection. >> now they have pulled their kids out of a tech inclusive school and enrolled them here. >> you both work for a massive tech company that most people on earth know of. so why send your kids to a school where theres no technology? >> for us, it really started when our children were younger and we at home exposed them to screen time, ...

A residential treatment program that specializes in screen addiction. >> whats all this stuff? >> these are just things people put up. >> digital media use improve the quality of your life? how does your digital media use impair the quality of your life? john came here seeking help. on the brink of suicide, he needed a way out. hes now one of five young adults undergoing a two-month digital detox. part of a therapy intensive program designed to help the most extreme cases. which more often than ...

Represent the vast majority of parents here. two of those parents jerry and charlene used to be true believers. >> we love technology. we live and breathe it. but i think its easy to overlook human connection. >> now they have pulled their kids out of a tech inclusive school and enrolled them here. >> you both work for a massive tech company that most people on earth know of. so why send your kids to a school where theres no technology? >> for us, it really started when our children were younger...

His reaction to that was -- he ran away. and so, we knew that that was going a lot deeper for him to do that. >> and especially because he was a good kid. you know? hed do the things we asked him to do. he would get good reports back from the teachers and so it just didnt seem to add up. >> johns reaction to losing his ipad was shocking. especially for his dad. kevin has worked in tech his entire life. rising all the way to being executive at a major tech company. kevin, could you ever have fore...

Meanwhile, a.j. will monitor my physical response. >> just saw a nice little spike in the gsr. imagine the time where you have been stressed out before, your palms start to sweat. were actually measuring that. and thats whats being reflected right here. >> so how did i do? >> how do you think you did? >> i think i did pretty well. i was trying really hard to focus on the task at hand. >> looking at the results on monitor on the other end there was a pretty clear and prominent stress response. so...

Ipad. he was 14 at the time. his reaction to that was -- he ran away. and so, we knew that that was going a lot deeper for him to do that. >> and especially because he was a good kid. you know? hed do the things we asked him to do. he would get good reports back from the teachers and so it just didnt seem to add up. >> johns reaction to losing his ipad was shocking. especially for his dad. kevin has worked in tech his entire life. rising all the way to being executive at a major tech company. ke...

I would go to shows on netflix or maybe anime and go through the youtube rabbit hole. pornography was a big thing. >> how much time on youtube? >> youtube could be all day sometimes and then not on technology i would be sleeping or sometimes not sleep. >> there were days you didnt sleep? >> yeah. i would just stay up playing video games all night kind of like if a fantasy world which is almost infinite possibilities compared to real life. >> where are you going? hey, jonathan! >> as a kid, john ...