Can smartphone addiction fry your brain cells?
Not literally, but that twitchy connection to your phone?
It definitely affects your abilities to concentrate and think deeply.
And that means device addiction harms your ability to remember.
Worse:
Smartphone addiction not only turns you into a social pariah…
It Can Also Be Fatal!
In 2015, distracted driving (due to texting or talking on the cellphone) killed 3,477 people and injured another 391,000.
And there's more bad news…
According to the National Safety Council, using cell phones while driving can make you more accident prone than even drunk driving…
No wonder people are concerned over how cell phones are affecting their lives!
In January this year, two of Apple's biggest shareholders wrote an open letter to the company requesting it to provide "more choices and tools" so that parents could restrict their children's smartphone usage time.
The letter added that researchers have found this shocking statistic:
"U.S. teenagers who spend 3 hours a day or more on electronic devices are 35 percent more likely, and those who spend 5 hours or more are 71 percent more likely, to have a risk factor for suicide than those who spend less than 1 hour."
Smartphone addiction is a serious issue and may need some creative problem solving using the C.R.E.A.T.E. formula:
But here's the real question:
What about YOU?
Are you displaying cell phone addiction symptoms?
Let's find out:
Are You A Nomophobic?
I know you will never admit it, but when you are unable to find your phone for even 30 seconds, it causes a minor anxiety attack.
How do I know this?
Because it happens to people every single second of the day.
Look at this poor fellow:
So, is he a nomophobic?
Absolutely!
Nomophobia or 'NO MObile PHOne phoBIA' is the fear of not being able to use your cell phone or have access to your device.
Want to know if you're truly addicted? Take this online quiz to find out.
Nomophobia is real, but the medical community is not ready to declare overuse of cell phones as a clinical addiction.
Ignoring The Data?
They neglect to do so in the face of some shocking data.
As the Joker suggests (I misquote), "whatever doesn't kill us, only makes us stranger"…
Nearly one in ten people admitted to using their smartphones during sex, in the shower, on a movie date, in church or other place of worship, as per the 2013 Mobile Consumer Habits.
What's more, nearly three-quarters of the respondents said that they were always within five feet of their smartphones.
Although doctors do agree that if you can't stop using your phone, even when it's harming your life, you may be "addicted."
"Only a small percentage of people qualify as addicted. But many people overuse their smartphones."
This quote comes from Dr. David Greenfield, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut and founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction.
Smartphone addiction is not listed as an official mental disorder listed in the
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