Mobile phone addiction

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Introduction

Although it may seem exaggerated, many researchers are warning that many people with cell phones who are suffering physical and psychological problems such as anxiety, palpitations and sweating when they forget the phone at home, your prepaid card is zero, are left without coverage or no battery.

Clearly there are many advantages to using the mobile phone, for example, to call home when I'm late, when notice to say that I'm studying at Lucy's house but many users have begun to wonder if not be becoming real "mobile-dependent?, unable to be even a minute without your phone.

In addition, advertising is especially aimed at boys and girls like you, and teach the phone as a tool that gives independence, freedom, allowing integration into a group, bonding with friends, but are we sure that this is true ? ...

We have many questions: What is this addiction? Why can we go? What people may be addicted? How can we know if it happens to us or not? Can it be avoided? ...

We will try to answer these questions!

What is addiction to mobile Every day, millions of SMS sent in the whole world, everywhere we hear sounds and melodies ring constantly and almost anywhere: restaurants, the supermarket, school, the park, etc.. and we see many people hooked to their mobile faithful to be continuously connected. It can take up around your neck!

The mobile is very important in our lives, or not?

In the same way that occurs in other types of addictions, cell phone use becomes an addiction when it becomes a repetitive behavior that causes us pleasure. It has been called "Telefonitis? And is an impulse that can not be controlled using the phone again and again during the day or night.

For the first time, you start talking about that new technologies have become part of the so-called psychological addiction or addictions without drugs.

According to experts, mobile phone addiction suffer from 1 in 1,000 people using the phone, and say that is affecting mainly children and adolescents. For this reason, it is important that each and every one of you knows what is this phone addiction, and may know the answers to these questions we posed at the beginning to avoid it.

Unlike other addictions, like alcoholism or gambling addiction (gambling, etc.). the age at which it starts is very low, from eleven or twelve years, it is very easy to have a phone, and there are even phones especially for children with little drawings for them, and also parents feel confident that your child / a have a phone to make calls to any emergency. And this is not bad!!

The problem begins when abused

Therefore, there is a problem of taking a substance, such as drugs, but the problem is behavior.

Uncontrollable behavior, uncontrollable and exaggerated makes stop other activities such as reading, talking one on one with our family, our friends, neighbors, etc ...

Adolescents, the main protagonists

A population particularly affected by this addiction are teenagers. The idea of ​​"leisure time? seems to be linked to the mobile phone and it seems unthinkable that a teenager does not have this object.

Adolescence is a time of great change (I have noticed something, right?!): Now many questions arise: Who am I? What will I be? Why do I spend all these physical changes? Why I think my parents sometimes do not understand me? I hate my body and I will reject because I'm fat or I'm short, how I can change it? Why I'm not as groovy as my friend Pepe? and, besides, my parents did not have time to deal with my ....

It is a time when the reference points change, it is quite normal to begin to produce alienation and lack of communication with parents: "... I will not dad for help, the better it is to ask my buddy know more ... ? and when you have a question, they may not choose the best source of information for clarification.

And all this confusion at this point in the life of each one of us, ye adolescents makes the goal of large advertising companies to try to convince you of all your messages. Some are good, but many others only respond to their own economic interests. And we know that even for adults is easy to distinguish!

How to generate mobile addiction

For a person becomes addicted, just enough to be a person with emotional problems, difficulties in talking with others, or that is in a difficult period of his life, as is the case in which adolescents is especially vulnerable to the many claims that invade the publicity and, in many cases are not true!, for example, which is thin fashion, tying the game, buy products and products without end and, of course! , the sooner have the latest model of mobile!

This will make a great number of people fall victim to the mobile unit and therefore will become addicted. And then the addiction will make the person deviates from their families, friends, coming to a great emotional suffering .

How to recognize a person addicted

Against people who use a mobile properly in people with addiction we can see how they are continuously "monitor? the gadget, always waiting any signal coming from your unit, each very short time, so compulsive and uncontrolled, referring to the phone, even when doing something else.

Other recent studies have shown that people "addicted? who stop using their phones, result in what might be called the "Withdrawal psychological and physical?.

This syndrome has symptoms such great distress, anxiety, nervousness, irritability, etc.. All this disappears when, again, have the opportunity to use your mobile phone.

Surely you have noticed, in your own group of friends, the image of gangs of kids walking together, but each speaking through their mobile phone or sending a text message to breakneck speed ... thousands of messages are sent per day .

Some say "spend all your free time? to handle the phone. It is very common to find teenagers and children "by typing? for minutes and minutes ... or playing a video game ... or communicating with strangers ... or taking pictures and videos and then hang them on the Internet, ... Using the phone at all hours at home, in class, between classes, with friends ... can not be separated from the phone. They believe that without the phone could not have friends. Relate it to "be more important?. They believe "mandatory? its use. Take pictures constantly. Videos are exchanged at all times. Send messages and listen to music all their free time. They can not go 5 minutes without checking whether there is any missed call.

And, what is this? Indeed, a compulsive and repetitive use of the phone, many times has no effect.

If you see a friend around five minutes, call Would it make sense to say "Hey, Manolo, I'm missing 4 minutes and a half to see?

Then there is the economic issue. Many boys and girls a monthly spend large sum of money on mobile phone use, and large telecommunications companies, you know, take advantage ...

Behind this, there is usually self-esteem or insecurity problems, difficulty in relationships with others, isolation, loneliness and other emotional factors.

Effects of mobile phone addiction

There are many effects of addiction, and those who are most evident are:

Isolation and loneliness other behavior altered mood disorders Compulsive Behavior Problems Communication Problems with language, for it do not stop to write well, but the important thing is speed networking hazard not be too good with strangers , which can have negative consequences. Addictive behavior makes it very sensitive to the judgments and evaluations of others and increases feelings of insecurity can be reached school failure or aggression. In severe cases, you can get to steal and lie just to have a mobile because addiction is able to override all of our control as individuals.

In some boys / as also occurs truancy or show no study time, spend hours chatting instead of interacting with other people his age,

So far, we're taking unclear what you mean Mobile Addiction, and now ...

How can we know whether or not we addicted?

You begin to feel stress, irritability, fatigue, sleep disturbances and emotional disturbances.

And if you want to be safer still, there are easy to detect signals that we're going to confirm, or at least going to be an indication to raise the call for help immediately.

This test, which is presented below, is simple and quick to do:

6 Questions to detect mobile addiction

1. Bill as a first warning: I spend more than 25-30 month euros?

2. Changing attitudes: when I talk on the phone I act differently than when I am face to face, for example, I do not feel so shy?

3. Not separated from the phone: the phone always goes with me? during lunch, at school, at the movies ...

4. Using the phone to communicate with friends or family all the time am I moving slope, although it is with them?

5. Changing sleep patterns: sometimes I wake up at night and, besides going to the bathroom, look at the phone to see if I have entered a message or a missed call? Am I late at night talking to the phone and sleep fewer hours?

6. Nervousness when the phone is not available: Do you feel nervous or anxious when you have the phone near or has been turned off because I have no battery?

If you answered yes to most questions, we should start worrying, and then ...

What do we do for a possible mobile addiction?

First of all we should ask for help and do not think that can be fixed over time, or deny the problem.

Nothing happens and can happen to anyone

And if we found something in a friend of ours, will not make any judgments about his behavior, since in many cases not voluntary, but may not have been avoided and has failed to overcome it.

You may not know how to ask for help and so we must help

FIND THE SOLUTION

And Where?

The ideal is to seek help from our immediate environment, my parents, my brothers, my family, even my friends, but if even so, we feel embarrassed or anxious, there are many, for example, the Institute your tutor or teacher you best fall, the City of your city, through the Health Center and all dependencies Specialized Organizations, for example, in Project Man.

In all these places, you will understand and know to give you a phone or a direction that will help

Through this assistance, you can fix the underlying problems, as discussed above, and teach us to look for other activities in which the motive is not present and we will also be very enjoyable. And very importantly, to prevent relapse you can!

And, how?

This is going to use techniques that will help you overcome it, and that will make you produce:

Changes in your relationship with the móvil_ One day, he will begin to use only at certain times of day, you can turn off when not needed, leave without it!!

Everything gradually, to avoid a collision and can cause anxiety and nervousness.

Changes in what we think we can mobile dar_ The mobile should be a tool to help us and not a device that controls our lives. And, our beliefs about the phone must be correct so that we can be free. Understand the reason that led us to this use adictivo_ Through our conversations with the professional, will help us understand what the root of the problem that has led us to make a bad use of mobile phones.

A little advanced treatment may come to treatment parents and siblings, that they also participate, understand the problem, share, and it is possible, that they also have to change something to prevent it from happening again.

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