Despite of phones being good for communication, they also tend to carry alot of side effects. According to a research carried out in the United States, 5 in one people confessed to being addicted to their mobile phones....CONTINUE READING
Excessive smartphone use can disrupt your sleep which can have a serious impact on your overall mental health. It can also affect your ability to think clearly, and reduce your cognitive and learning skills. Below is a list of points that indicates you might be addicted to your phone.
Anxiety
You begin to feel stressed when your phone battery drops into the red zone or you find yourself constantly checking your phone for no reason.
Disturbed sleep.
Excess use of mobile phones affects your ability to think clearly and reduces cognitive and learning skills. If you find yourself waking up in the middle of the nights to check your phone for no reason you might be addicted.
Boredom or depression
You start feeling stressed when your mobile phone or network is unreachable.
You are also addicted to your phone if you are easily distracted by messages or you avoid interaction to spend time on your phone. Below is how you can overcome the addiction;
Reduce expected rewards from notification.
The random and unexpected or moderately expected nature of notifications increase the likelihood of using the phone to maximize potential rewards.
Remove colours, sounds, and interactions that are engaging.
Removing them weakens to the link between the behavior of using your phone and the rewards.
Try to leave home without the phone.
This will help you to spend less time on your phone thus helping you to focus on other things.
