Mobile phones have become almost indispensable in our daily life but unfortunately many of us have now developed one mobile addiction.
They are used to post on social media, take photos, record videos, such as agenda, to do list, calendar, etc. In addition to receiving road indications, feeling music, playing, calling.
The smartphone It is now a window on the rest of the world, and, for many of us, the main means of interaction. Certainly a useful, efficient object, which provides support, with which we often tend to develop a bond that is clear when, however crazy it may seem, we perceive the Fear of remaining without mobile phone.
The phenomenon of mobile addiction (nomophobia)
It often happens to try anxiety in not finding your smartphone in the bag, or to be worried when the battery notification appears on the middle of the day. However useful it is smartphone The concern for having to do without it can be understandable, but if it is not fear or mobile addiction Things get complicated.
The scientific term to indicate the uncontrolled fear of remaining disconnected from contact with the mobile network is Nomophobia (no-motor-phones), or the Smartphone addictiona recent time introduction in the Vocabulary of the Italian language Zingarelli.
A person suffers from Nomophobia When he tries a disproportionate fear of staying out of contact with the mobile network, to the point of experimenting physical sensations similar to panic attack: lack of breath, dizziness, tremors, sweating, accelerated heartbeat, chest pain and nausea.
Nomophobia and symptoms of mobile addiction
People with nomophobia warn states of anxiety When they remain short of battery or credit, or without network coverage or without the cell phone.
To avoid anxiety states, the subject puts in place a series of protective behaviors such as frequently checking the credit, bringing an emergency charger, give family members an alternative number.
Also who suffers from nomophobia Generally manifests a use of the smartphone in generally inappropriate seats.
It is very important to evaluate that behind this modern fear sometimes hides a real form of dependence on new technologies.
The relationship with other addictions
According to the studies of David Greenfield, professor of psychiatry at the university of Connecticut, the Smartphone addiction It is very similar to all other forms of addictions. This is because it causes interference in the production of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that regulates the celebraral circuit of the reward, encouraging people to carry out activities they believe will give them pleasure.
There mobile addiction It also creates more significant and profound psychological consequences than the fear of giving up Twitter or not receiving a text.
In fact, the research on the transactional memory stresses that, when we have reliable external sources of information on specific topics at our disposal, the motivation and ability to acquire and maintain certain information is reduced.
In other words, when we have a reliable source of information, like our smartphones, over time we lose the desire to remember things or learn something outside of what is visible in our screens.
- Behavioral addictions
