Technical progress is guilty of mental disorders
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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High technologies, no doubt, improve our lives, but they also significantly affect human health, and not for the better. Scientists say that the human psyche suffers most of all, in addition, in medicine, new diseases are recorded, the culprit of which is the Internet.
Phantom Call Syndrome
The disease develops in people who do not imagine their life without a mobile phone. Constant tension due to fear of missing a call or message leads to a person hearing a vibrating signal or a ringing tone when the phone is actually silent. Usually, this happens to people whose work is associated with constant calls, and day and night. Being in a constant stressful state, a person can not be distracted from thoughts about work. Doctors warn that this kind of fixation can lead to serious disruptions, both psychological and physical.
Nomophobia
Strong fear of being left without a cell phone. As the number of mobile communication users in the world is increasing with each passing day, the disease is gaining more and more momentum. Nomophobia manifests itself in different ways. Some experience only a slight concern in case the phone is forgotten somewhere. Others in this case experience a real panic. In medicine, there are cases when a person started a heart attack from what was left without a phone.
Cyber disease
About this disease began to speak back in the 90's, when a person after working with the first electronic devices, experienced symptoms similar to the sea sickness - nausea, dizziness, headache. Currently, doctors warn of a new wave of cyber-disease around the world, which is caused by the updated operating system iOS from Apple. The new version has a parallax effect when the image on the display is tilted when the gadget is tilted. Such an innovation in many caused a feeling of nausea, dizziness and headache.
Fasebook-dipression
Psychologists have repeatedly expressed their discontent about social networks. Now they are practically not fulfilling their main purpose - communication, but have become a means of expressing various achievements in life. Users try to embellish their lives, expose themselves as profitable as possible, exposing photos from foreign trips, chic restaurants, sharing their own successes. As a result, those who are not able to go to the prestigious resorts experience an inferiority complex, looking at the successes of their friends, acquaintances or even strangers. Experts have already proved the harmful impact of social networks on the human psyche, which can lead to a sense 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 start a serious depression against this background. In addition, the person has lost the desire to comment on other people's posts and photos, so here it turns out a kind of vicious circle. The optimal option in this case will be to abandon the use of a dangerous and destroying psyche social network.
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Internet addiction
The person has an irresistible desire to "sit" on the Internet. He begins to worry greatly if there is no access to the network. With this dependence, all other spheres of life are completely rejected. This disease serves as an excuse for jokes in which Internet dependent parents starve their own children or the wife, carried away, did not notice how her husband left for a month on a business trip. But psychologists do not consider Internet addiction as a joke, and now there is an active discussion about whether this disease should be considered an addictive state, i.e. A special mental disorder, akin to drug addiction, alcoholism, etc. But anyway, Internet dependent people completely break off ties with the outside world, and recovery requires a lot of time and effort.
Dependence on online games
Very often such dependence becomes a real mania. A person so immersed in the virtual world of the game, which 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 depressions, psychological exhaustion.
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Cyberchondria
This disease is particularly susceptible to people who make themselves diagnoses via the Internet. Users - hypochondriacs, having read the symptoms of a disease, immediately note them at home. Experts warn that access to medical sites, too hypochondriacs should be completely banned.
Google Effect
Now more and more people get the necessary information a couple of times by clicking the mouse. More and more people are of the opinion that remembering information now is not fashionable and completely useless. As a result, a person's desire and ability to learn are lost. Moreover, the effect of Google can develop even among those who are convinced of the need to remember new information. The human brain simply refuses to remember anything at a subconscious level.