I think you've got the wrong hammer-related analogy. "Strict disipline" in the form of cutting off the kid's access to computers sounds like a "when all you have is a hammer..." kind of solution. It's an overly simplistic way of attacking a symptom without attempting to address or even identify the underlying problems, and it comes with a self-satisfied justification for the potential harms of that approach because at least you're doing something (even if there's no reason to believe it would have accomplished anything other than change how the underlying problems manifest).

GP said:

> Perhaps the easiest, earliest intervention for that digital addiction was to cut him off the "drug" and maybe put him through psychiatric care.

And that's absolutely backwards. Definitely get him psychiatric care, and maybe cut him off from computers entirely, if professionals concur that it seems likely to help more than hurt.