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Mobile Addiction: 2. Anxiety, Stress, and Depression

Mobile phone overuse can lead to psychological or behavioral addiction similar to other digital dependencies. Signs of addiction include excessive preoccupation, time and money spent on mobile phones and inappropriate phone use in situations like driving. Increased use is associated with adverse effects like negative impacts on relationships and anxiety when separated from the phone. Addiction to smartphones can seriously impact personal and professional life, causing anxiety, stress, depression from an imbalanced life focused on the phone. It can also lead to health issues as phone use replaces exercise and physical activity, and vision and hearing problems from prolonged screen time and loud headphone use. While phones are useful technology, excessive entertainment use can damage life balance, relationships and well-being.

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Mobile Addiction: 2. Anxiety, Stress, and Depression

Mobile phone overuse can lead to psychological or behavioral addiction similar to other digital dependencies. Signs of addiction include excessive preoccupation, time and money spent on mobile phones and inappropriate phone use in situations like driving. Increased use is associated with adverse effects like negative impacts on relationships and anxiety when separated from the phone. Addiction to smartphones can seriously impact personal and professional life, causing anxiety, stress, depression from an imbalanced life focused on the phone. It can also lead to health issues as phone use replaces exercise and physical activity, and vision and hearing problems from prolonged screen time and loud headphone use. While phones are useful technology, excessive entertainment use can damage life balance, relationships and well-being.

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Mobile addiction

Mobile phone overuse s a proposed form of psychological or behavioural dependence


on cell phones, closely related to other digital dependencies such as social media
addiction or inteThese behaviors can include preoccupation with mobile communication,
excessive money or time spent on mobile phones, use of mobile phones in socially or
physically inappropriate situations such as driving an automobile. Increased use can
also lead to increased time on mobile communication, adverse effects on relationships,
and anxiety if separated from a mobile phone or sufficient [Link] addiction disorder.

The addiction to a smartphone can become a serious problem and causes many effects
in both your personal and professional life. This behavioral addiction can be dangerous
[Link] are some other effects of cell phone addictions can cause to you, the people
around you and your life.

2. Anxiety, Stress, and Depression


Another common effect that we often heard from experts is the emotional and mental
health problems. When you spend too much time on your phone, you neglect other
parts of your life. Your life will be out of balance. Staring too much at the screen will
make you feel anxious and [Link] you are busying studying or cooking,
suddenly someone called and you have to stop everything to attend to your phone. You
try to continue after that, but your phone buzzes again with an instant message. You get
distracted once more and this will cause stress if it continues every day.

3. Health Issue
The more time you spend using your smartphone, the less time you will have to
exercise or even walk around. Many people found that they are lost in the virtual space
their smartphone provides, and only to return to the reality after hours [Link] phone
usage has greatly replaced many of our physical activity in life. A survey conducted to a
group of students and found that those who spend long hours using their phones were
less fit than the other average that spent less time on their phone
7. Eyesight and Hearing Problems
the blue light emission from your phone can damage your retina. It can cause muscular
degeneration and loss of [Link] to focus and look at the screen of your phone for a
long time, you will feel stress and cause discomfort to your [Link] you constantly plug a
headphone to your ears while using your phone, it may bring up some hearing issue.
The National Institute of Deafness showed that about 26 million Americans are having a
problem with noise-induced hearing loss, and one of such noises is from your
headphones.

Conclusion
There is no doubt that cell phones are great technology that make our lives easier and
help us communicate. But let’s be honest… we shouldn’t use them all the time just to
entertain ourselves. Life is not always about entertainment. If you think you are addicted
to your cell phone, you should seriously try to cure your addiction. Cell phones do make
life easier, but you should not lose sight of the fact that there is a life without them.

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