Psychological distress due to excessive use of mobile phones at a young age

In recent years, mobile phones have become so important factor that it is somehow controlling our lives fully from every possible aspect and even in every age ranges, especially among young ages. From the school projects to developing a research paper, mobile usage along with internet facilities have made our life so easy! Moreover, some learning apps have developed to make it easier for students to study. For example, the ‘Audio-Visual Study techniques’ are recently been emphasized much by the experts. Apart from these, gaming apps have also become the only way to overcome their loneliness. And also, we can’t deny that mobile phones connect people all over the world, in every possible way.

Among all these somehow, the over usage of mobile phones has made children addicted enough to distract them from their studies. Researches suggested that excessive use of mobile phones may affect their general health conditions like eyesight problem, an improper motor movement like difficulties in finger movements, spondylitis, headache etc. It may also affect their attention problem or may disrupt their general mental growth.

Parents should take care of these as early as possible. Furthermore, there are the best psychiatrist in Kolkata available to help in such conditions. Psychological studies stated that especially the children with lack of support or appreciations, lack of parental attention, etc make them too dependent upon these gadgets, as they could find their happiness only from those dependencies. Through the counselling process, the best psychologist in Kolkata identify those issues and work on those issues. For child psychology, parents’ counselling has been found more effective, especially in this context. Apart from this, peer influence contributes largely to this field. So, avoiding those situations or circles would be the best options. As children are too attracted to phone, some ‘behavioural techniques like positive or negative reinforcement’ may decondition the habits of excessive usage of phones. Lastly, it must be noted that the children imitate or learn, whatever they observe from others. So, the parents should also reduce the excessive usage of phones at least in front of their children as much as possible.