Smartphones have definitely made every person’s life easy, because with the use of smartphones (mobile phones) you can talk to anywhere in the world sitting at home. You can transact money, do shopping, attend online classes, this smartphone has become quite useful for children also.
But everyone from children to adults have become addicted to it. According to a recent research, excessive use of smartphone can ruin your mental health.
Let us tell you about this research and how smartphones can hollow your mind.
According to a recent research conducted at Columbia University in America, excessive use of smartphones and social media has a negative impact on mental health. This can cause emotional and psychological problems. Research has shown that the problem of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is increasing due to continuous updates on social media platforms. In this, people feel afraid of missing important updates, so they keep picking up their phones again and again and checking for updates.
Doing this can cause sleep related problems. In fact, the blue light emanating from the smartphone screen suppresses melatonin production, which disturbs the sleep cycle and deteriorating sleep quality has a negative impact on mental health and increases the risk of stress and anxiety.
Experts term the habit of checking smartphones before sleeping as bad and say that one should stop using the smartphone about 1 to 2 hours before sleeping, so that one can sleep better.
People think that being active on social media platforms makes your social circle bigger and you are able to interact with people, whereas research has revealed that excessive use of social media can cause you stress. Actually, by spending more time on social media, people compare themselves with each other, which leads to mental health issues. Not only this, by spending more time on social media, people also do more shopping and sometimes buy things of no use, due to which they may have to face financial stress, hence experts also advise to stay away from social media. .
Published at : 28 Dec 2024 09:11 AM (IST)
