4. INTRODUCTION
• Nomophobia: the fear of going without your phone
• textaphrenia: the fear that you can’t send or receive texts
• phantom vibrationsTrusted Source: the feeling that your phone is
alerting you when it really isn’t
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6. Cell phone overuse and behavioral addiction
• severe negative consequences stemming from the behavior
• withdrawal, or feelings of irritability and anxiety when the behavior
isn’t practiced
• relapse, or picking up the habit again after periods of avoidance
7. • Loss of control over the behavior
• persistence, or having real difficulty limiting the behavior
• tolerance, the need to engage in the behavior more often to get the
same feeling
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9. People Who is at greatest risk
• Excessive cell phone use among teens is so common that 33 percent
of 13-year-olds never turn off their phone, day or night. And the
younger a teen acquires a phone, the more likely they are to develop
problematic use patterns.
10. • For girls, dependent use patterns may develop because phones
become important tools of social interaction, whereas boys
demonstrate a greater tendency to use phones in risky situations.
11. Symptoms of phone addiction
• Low self-esteem
• low impulse control
• anxiety
• depression
• being highly extroverted
12. Side effects of phone addiction
• Anxiety
• depression
• sleep deficits and insomnia
• relationship conflicts
• poor academic or work performance
13. Now we all have questions that How to break
the addiction
• Consider cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• This therapeutic approach helps illuminate the links between your
thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. It can be a very effective type of
therapy to help you change certain behavior patterns.
14. • Remove time-consuming apps from your phone and access them
through a device you don’t carry with you all day.
• Change your settings to eliminate push notifications and other
disruptive alerts.
• Set your screen to gray scale to keep it from waking you at night.
15. • Place some barriers around your phone use that force you to think
about what you’re doing. For example, you could create lock screen
questions, like “Why now?” and “What for?”
• Keep your phone out of sight. Charge your phone somewhere besides
your bedroom.
