Kamis, 11 April 2013

Symptoms of Stress Due Smartphone Addiction


The use of smartphones is supposed to make life easier, practical and fun. You can check corporate email, socialize with people from different world even office tasks only through smart phones.

But the phenomenon that exists today, the presence of smartphones actually create new problems. Not a few people who are stressed or anxious because it was addicted to smartphones or technology. In a study found that young people today can not be separated from technology and they have always been connected for 24 hours straight. Some of these mobile users exhibit the symptoms of stress. Are you one of them? Here it is five signs your stress symptoms associated with addiction to smartphones, as quoted by the Huffington Post.
1. Feeling There Needs Must Respond Immediately

Every email, chat online or notification in social media, you feel the need to immediately respond though not an emergency. If the activity in cyberspace to disrupt your social interactions in the real world, be it at work presentation, lecture or joking with friends, an indication that you are a compulsive behavior. It is better if you keep away from the occasional favorite gadget. Just to realize that not all text messages must be immediately returned.
2. Experiencing Symptoms Syndrome Phantom Cellphone
This syndrome is characterized by symptoms, you are sure to feel the phone vibrate in the bag, but as he took it, none of the notification. Phantom syndrome is a symptom you experience and current technology addiction has plagued most of the people who use smart phones. A study conducted at Indiana University found there were 89 percent of students and college students have experienced 'spurious vibrations' when carrying their cell phones.
3. Agitated for Social Media
Someone who is constantly thinking about what others are doing in social media, news or any news circulating in cyberspace, or see people posting photos every minute arguably been 'infected' FOMO (fear of missing out). FOMO also can not resist the desire to always check the News Feed or timeline. When posting something, he would expect no reply or comment from the other social media accounts. He will feel uneasy if there is anyone else who gets a lot of response so one minute to post something.
4. Indifferent to the man in front of him
Almost everyone who has a smartphone may never do so. Your dinner with friends or family in the restaurant, with the phone is next to the plate. Whatever people are talking about on the front or side of your being and you do not pull yourself engrossed in a virtual world which dissolves in the palm of the hand.
Respond reply, online chat or fuel okay. But you do not have to keep checking the phone just to see if the new photo you post got a comment or not. This behavior clearly can alienate you from the people closest friendships and relationships can be stretched. To avoid this, make a resolution to free one or two hours of time with the people closest to the smartphone.
5. If anxious Far from Mobile
This phenomenon is commonly referred to nomophobia, which is a term for those who can not live without cell phones or the Internet. Marked with can not turn off or disable the phone, battery recharge within adjacent time and could not even leave the cell phone to the bathroom now. If to the point of causing severe stress or depression, then this mental disorder should be overcome with the help of a psychologist or psikitater.

By: Bogor Inf

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