Are you Nomophobic? Do you have idea of the emergence of technological diseases? Have you thought how many times a day you look at or review your cell phone or mobile? A difficult question, right? and it is because this device has become almost an appendage of our body. We could forget even our lunch, but would be unable to leave our homes without this little device.
On the theme, there have been several studies conducted by specialists in the search for a scientific explanation for this behavior of the human being, because, although the cell phone was originally created in order to bring people today seem to have become a source of distraction, so absolute that is able to separate us completely from our environment, work, family and friends.
Fear of a person to leave or stay in one place without these technological communication devices at hand, is what experts have called Nomophobic. There has also been something known as “phubbing” which is the act of ignoring what is around us, people, activities and tasks, to pay full attention to the mobile. The term originated in Australia and is etymologically product of the union of words phone (phone) and “snubbing” (contempt).
But what goes through our heads?, What has that little device, which exerts on us that power and dominion ?, doctors and specialists explain that everything is due to endorphins and dopamine, which are substances secreted by the brain when we are in touch with actions or activities that cause us pleasure.
Apparently, the lights, sounds and the screen of cell phones, especially in the “smart” called, and how all these aspects interact and relate to each other, who uses it produces a satisfactory and pleasant response in our brain, which in automatic consequence, increasingly try to contact the origin or source of pleasure. That is, that we like, we want more and more, without wishing ourselves a limit to the time of your use.
Studies have arisen around therapies to combat these diseases or addictive behaviors by overuse of these teams because, although still not been medically defined as mental disorders, could eventually lead to one of these conditions, and even need to bring the person who suffers an therapeutic aid mechanisms, psychologists or, in special cases, psychiatrists specializing in the area.
The solution is psychoeducation, which is nothing to relearn to give fair value to mobile phone use, consciously assuming that there is no use, is valid and even necessary and useful, but as a means of communication and not quite the opposite. A look, a gesture, a hug, never replace a text message or voicemail, even with emoticons.
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