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Highlights
- The use of technology and social media have increased tremendously nowadays, and it may have some serious repercussions to your mental and physical health.
- If you feel you have an unhealthy digital dependency and it will affect your health, work, concentration and engagement with others.
- Don’t hesitate to reach out to a mental health professional to cure such addiction.
Technology and social media are now used in ways that face-to-face contact has almost become unnecessary. Social media was started to connect people from anywhere in the world and to give you freedom, it’s since evolved into a hobby used by all age group.
With the increasing use of technology for almost everything, digital dependency is also on the rise and it’s getting hard to get through the day without checking social media updates.
The use of technology and social media have increased tremendously today and it may have some serious repercussions to your mental and physical health.
Our brains identify using social media as a rewarding activity that you ought to repeat and such reaction may be more felt whenever you make a post of your own and gain positive feedback.
It is crucial to control the uses of technology and understand what other precautions we can take to protect ourselves from digital addiction.
How Digital Dependency can affect your everyday life?
However, there many benefits of technology with its own negative effects to consider when addicted to it. Some of the effects include, increased isolation and loneliness, being constantly distracted, lack of sleep, low self-esteem, absent mindedness, anxiety or depression, decreased physical activity, which may affect overall health, being less social, poor grades or work performance, ignoring the relationships in your real life, impulse control problems, getting angry or defensive when others comments on your behavior, aloof from real world.
How can you reduce your social dependency?
If you feel you have an unhealthy digital dependency, and it will affect your health, work, concentration, and engagement with others. You can consider the following tips to help you achieve a healthier balance with social media:
Bottom Line
If you think you are too dependent on your phone or technology, so it’s time to take action. The tech addiction can affect you mental and physical health, so don’t underestimate it.
Try to take frequent breaks and set clear limits for you to prevent the digital addiction before it becomes harmful. Don’t hesitate to reach out to a mental health professional for help with this type of addiction.
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