Are you inseparable from your mobile phone every day? Do you always use your phone to browse Weibo, watch videos, and play games? Do you think there would be no fun without a mobile phone? If so, you may already be suffering from cell phone addiction! Mobile phone dependence is a modern psychological disease that will bring a lot of harm to your life, study, and health. Do you want to know how terrible mobile phone dependence is? Are you wondering if you’ve been tricked? Do you want to know how to get rid of cell phone addiction? This article can give you some help!
What is mobile phone dependence?
Mobile phone dependence refers to a psychological disorder that involves excessive use of mobile phones and a strong sense of dependence on mobile phones, making it impossible to live, study, work, and socialize normally. People with cell phone dependence will feel anxious, restless, lonely, powerless, and may even experience auditory hallucinations, hallucinations and other symptoms once their cell phones are not around. People with mobile phone dependence tend to ignore the people and things around them and only pay attention to the information and entertainment on their mobile phones, leading to alienation of interpersonal relationships, reduced quality of life, and deterioration of health conditions.
What are the dangers of mobile phone dependence?
Mobile phone dependence will bring you many harms, such as:
- Affect academic performance. People with cell phone dependence tend to be distracted by playing with their phones during class, homework, and review, resulting in inattention, memory loss, low learning efficiency, and naturally declining grades.
- Affects physical health. People with mobile phone dependence often lower their heads and play with mobile phones for long periods of time, causing damage to the cervical spine, lumbar spine, eyes and other parts, and symptoms such as muscle soreness, decreased vision, and dizziness. Moreover, people with cell phone dependence often neglect diet and exercise, leading to problems such as malnutrition, obesity, and reduced immunity.
- Affects mental health. People with mobile phone dependence tend to be addicted to the virtual world on their mobile phones and ignore the challenges and difficulties in real life, leading to psychological problems such as self-evasion, self-isolation, and self-denial. Moreover, people who are dependent on mobile phones are often affected by negative information and public opinions on their mobile phones, leading to mood swings, increased stress, depression and other mental illnesses.
- Affects interpersonal relationships. People with mobile phone dependence tend to ignore their family, friends, classmates, teachers, etc., and only pay attention to strangers and netizens on their mobile phones, resulting in family, friendship, teacher-student relationships, etc. becoming indifferent, cold, and alienated. Moreover, people with mobile phone dependence often fiddle with their mobile phones constantly when communicating with others, making the other party feel that you lack sincerity and respect, and are more likely to cause conflicts and misunderstandings.
Are you suffering from mobile phone dependence?
Do you think you have some symptoms of mobile phone dependence? Do you want to know if you are addicted to your mobile phone? Then take a little test! If the answer to more than half of the following questions is yes, then you are probably suffering from mobile phone dependence and must be treated with caution:
- Do you always have your phone on you and feel too distracted to do anything else if you don’t have it with you?
- When your phone doesn’t ring for a period of time, do you feel uncomfortable and subconsciously check your phone to see if there are any missed calls?
- Do you always have the hallucination of ‘my cell phone is ringing’, or even often mistake other people’s cell phone ringtones as your own cell phone ringing.
- When you answer the phone, do you often feel that your ears are surrounded by radiation waves from the mobile phone?
- Do you often look for your phone subconsciously and take it out from time to time?
- Are you often afraid that your phone will shut down automatically?
- Do you sleep with your phone on at night?
- When your mobile phone often fails to connect online and cannot receive signals, do you feel anxious and powerless, and your temper becomes irritable?
- Have you often experienced symptoms such as numbness in your hands and feet, palpitations, dizziness, sweating, or gastrointestinal disorders recently?
If more than half of the answers are ‘yes,’ the patient should seek relief from dependence.
How to overcome mobile phone dependence?
If you find that you have developed cell phone dependence, don’t be afraid or blame yourself. You can overcome cell phone dependence through the following methods and make your life healthier and happier:
- Shift the focus of life away from your mobile phone. It is recommended that everyone gradually reduce the number of unnecessary uses of mobile phones through self-discipline and try to stay away from mobile phones. ‘The first thing many people do when they get in the car is to take out their mobile phones and play games. In fact, they can just calm down, look outside the car, and relax their body and mind.’
- Try it without a charger. You can try not to bring a charger and force yourself to reduce the time you spend surfing the Internet on your mobile phone (which consumes a lot of power). This method is very effective. Change to a non-smart phone with single functions and no complicated operations…the problem of dependence on mobile phones may gradually disappear.
- I can often feel satisfied. The root cause of all dependence disorders is ’lack of satisfaction.’ If you don’t know what it is like to feel satisfied, then you will always be in a state of dissatisfaction. So you need to always tell yourself, I am satisfied with this situation, and I know what it is like when I feel satisfied.
- Divert your attention. Consciously put your mobile phone aside and divert your attention by doing other things. If you can do things without using your mobile phone, try not to use your mobile phone. When we slowly get rid of our excessive dependence on mobile phones, it will naturally return to ’tools’ character of.
- Keep your phone in your bag. Holding it in your hand will make people aware of the existence of the phone at all times. Once it is taken away, it will cause serious ‘separation anxiety’. You might as well put it in your bag and set a louder ringtone, which can avoid missing calls and reduce dependence on your mobile phone.
- Read more books, newspapers and exercise. Actively talk to people in real life, read more books and newspapers, gradually reduce the unnecessary use of mobile phones through self-discipline, and try to shift the focus of life away from mobile phones. If objective conditions permit, it is best to participate in more activities that are beneficial to the body and mind, such as: listening to music, going for walks, outings, fitness, etc. If you are too dependent on mobile phones, you should see a psychologist to avoid affecting your normal life and work.
Conclusion
Mobile phone dependence is a modern psychological disease that appears with the changes in modern people’s lifestyles. As long as we can face it and adjust our lives in some ways, we can avoid or alleviate this symptom. We should be more active in real life. Talk to people and capture the beauty around you. Mobile phones are our good friends, but we should not let them become our masters. We should use mobile phones reasonably and let them serve our lives instead of enslaving us to its lives. Let us keep a proper distance from our mobile phones and make our lives more exciting!
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