New Type Detox: Digital Detox

Lifenesia - Without realizing it, we create a more intimate relationship with gadgets, simultaneously reduced our intimacy with family and friends, to create an inverse correlation.

While smartphone technology has benefited us in many ways, but the balance is something that must be fought. In a poll reported by Time magazine, one in four respondents claimed to check the phone every 30 minutes, and one of five every 10 minutes. One third of the respondents stated that, without the phone for a short time, it will make them anxious. No one knows this feeling can make you become addicted to digital.

Whenever we receive a notification email or social media, then Dopamine is released in the brain.Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which causes us to feel pleasure and satisfaction. We assume that the email as a form of acceptance or a small gift. Because we feel happy in this case, we find more and sometimes physical harm us. When the constant search Dopamine inflection come to a critical point, this will cause the effects of addiction.

There is no consensus of community psychology, but in 2013, a hospital in the United States have started to treat those who suffer from what is called the "Internet addiction". During the 10-day program, a group that has at diagnosis with severe problems will undergo evaluation and restricted from all use of technology for 72 hours in Behavioral Health Services, Bradford Regional Medical Center, Pennsylvania.

Kimberly Young, a psychologist and founder of the program, said:

"Addiction is defined not as the number of hours spent online, but rather as an imbalance that affects your career and negative relationships as drugs or addiction."

"This program is not covered by insurance, because Internet addiction is not recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Five by the American Psychiatric Association".

"Should social network is intended for connecting us with distant relatives location, but not at the expense of close relationships. For example, if the time of posting photos on Facebook, then you usually ignore a story or a comment from your spouse or child".

Social networks are essentially social nature, but at a certain scale, it does not need to be consistently carried out continuously. URLs Facebook presence we only television channel, programmed by highlighting those that we want, but not necessarily the people we know. Armed with this understanding, we all have to be careful in putting the information that you learned there.

Social media is not reality. Technology gives us access to a large amount of information, and the Internet is now at our fingertips. In an effort to more and more, the layers of countless, endless leave the window open on your computer, and then move on to talk on the phone, SMS, interact with mobile applications and internet browsing. Unfortunately, our brains are ultimately affected due to this process.

William Powers talked about how our dependence on social media and digital devices. After the advent of smartphones, we started filling moments with what is referred to as "mobile checkery". Unlock phone with a mission to examine important SMS or search for information. However, examination of constantly evolving into a solution because of fear of being alone. So, whether you are in this situation? Are you a "mobile checkery"?

Maybe it's time to improve your pattern, with little by little began to take an interest in returning to your environment and leave your phone in your bag or desk, without doing "phone checkery" and focus your chat together with your relatives.

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