Mental health issues addressed

Zhao Xin spends most of his spare time online, playing video games or aimlessly surfing the Internet. He is not a huge fan of the online world, but it takes his mind off the depression that has consumed his life in recent years.

"I have been very depressed and I don't know how to pull myself out of it. I don't want to talk to anyone. Playing games online diverts my mind from it for a while, but afterwards the depression takes over again," said Zhao Xin (not his real name), a Shanghai college student who was diagnosed with mild depression earlier this year and now receives regular treatment.

Zhao was depressed for two years without help before a counselor at his college advised him to seek treatment.