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Technological advances are responsible for mental disorders
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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High technologies undoubtedly improve our lives, but they also significantly affect human health, and not for the better. Scientists claim that the human psyche suffers the most, and in addition, new diseases have been recorded in medicine, the culprit of which is the Internet.
Phantom Ringing Syndrome
The disease develops in people who cannot imagine their life without a mobile phone. Constant stress due to the fear of missing a call or message leads to the fact that a person begins to hear a vibration signal or a ringtone when in fact the phone is silent. Usually, this happens to people whose work is associated with constant calls, both day and night. Being in a constant state of stress, a person cannot distract himself from thoughts about work. Doctors warn that this kind of obsession can lead to serious breakdowns, both psychological and physical.
Nomophobia
A strong fear of being left without a cell phone. As the number of mobile phone users in the world increases every day, the disease is gaining momentum. Nomophobia manifests itself in different ways. Some experience only mild anxiety if they forgot their phone somewhere. Others experience real panic in this case. In medicine, there are cases where a person had a heart attack because they were left without a phone.
Cybersickness
This disease was first discussed in the 90s, when people, after working with the first electronic devices, experienced symptoms similar to seasickness - nausea, dizziness, headache. Currently, doctors are warning about a new wave of cybersickness around the world, which is caused by the updated iOS operating system from Apple. The new version has a parallax effect, when tilting the gadget, the image on the display also tilts. This innovation has caused many to feel nausea, dizziness and headaches.
Facebook depression
Psychologists have repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with social networks. Now they practically do not fulfill their main purpose - communication, but have become a means of expressing various achievements in life. Users try to embellish their lives, to present themselves as favorably as possible, posting photos from foreign trips, chic restaurants, sharing their own successes. As a result, those who are not able to go to prestigious resorts experience an inferiority complex, looking at the successes of their friends, acquaintances or even strangers. Experts have already proven the detrimental effect of social networks on the human psyche, which can lead to a feeling of complete failure in life. In addition, some people are extremely painfully experiencing the lack of comments and posts to their own photos, they may develop severe depression against this background. In addition, a person loses the desire to comment on other people's posts and photos, so here we have a kind of vicious circle. The best option in this case would be to refuse to use a dangerous and destructive social network.
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Internet addiction
A person experiences an irresistible desire to "sit" on the Internet. He begins to worry a lot if there is no access to the network. With such an addiction, all other areas of life are completely rejected. This disease serves as a reason for jokes in which Internet-addicted parents starve their own children to death or a wife, carried away, did not notice how her husband left for a month on a business trip. But psychologists do not consider Internet addiction a joke at all, and now there is an active discussion about whether this disease should be considered an addictive condition, i.e. a special mental disorder, akin to drug addiction, alcoholism, etc. But be that as it may, Internet-addicted people completely lose their connections with the outside world, and recovery requires a lot of effort and time.
Online gaming addiction
Very often, such addiction becomes a real mania. A person is so deeply immersed in the virtual world of the game that he completely forgets about reality. Work, personal life, children, parents - everything that has priority in life is completely unimportant for gamers. Often, failures in the game lead to nervous breakdowns, severe depression, psychological exhaustion.
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Cyberchondria
This disease affects especially suspicious people who diagnose themselves using the Internet. Users - hypochondriacs, having read the symptoms of this or that disease, immediately note them in themselves. Experts warn that access to medical sites should be completely prohibited for overly suspicious citizens.
The Google Effect
Nowadays, more and more people get the necessary information by clicking the mouse a couple of times. More and more people are of the opinion that memorizing information is now unfashionable and completely useless. As a result, a person loses the desire and ability to learn. Moreover, the Google effect can develop even in those who are convinced of the need to memorize new information. The human brain simply refuses to memorize anything on a subconscious level.