Have you ever felt cyber-addicted?

  Have you ever felt cyber-addicted?

What is cyber-addiction?

Also called internet addiction, cyber-addiction is defined as a problematic internet use, referring to an excessive internet use which interferes with daily life.

Things you do if you're a cyber-addicted:

• You sleep with your phone in the bed or on your bedside table.
• You panic when you go out and you forget the phone. 
• When you're out, you constantly search for your phone in your pockets. 
• If you don't find your phone, you start to be exasperated, but after you became aware that you have had it all the time in your hand.
• Your phone is more organised than your bedroom.
• You have a lot of covers, just for them to match your clothes.
• You see a person fall in the street and you laugh, but when your phone falls you get scared.
• You have a clock but you look at the time on your phone.
• When the teacher asks you to please turn off the phone, you put it in silent mode.
• When you see someone doing something dangerous instead of asking to stop, you take your phone and start to film it.
• When you arrive to anyplace the first thing you do is ask for the WiFi password.

Emotional and social signs:

• Anxiety: You feel anxiety when you feel you'll not have time to spend your usual time or the time you would like on the internet. Another example of anxiety related to internet addiction, would be when your parents confiscate your phone, you may feel that you will be incommunicado.
• Feelings of guilt: It may had happened to you, that you should have done some work or an errand but you haven't done it or complete it, just because maybe you were so focused on internet that you've been just postponing it. Sometimes you end up not doing what you were supposed to, and this can make you feel guilty, because of the time you have spent on internet.
• Dishonesty: When they ask you how much time you have spent on internet, you lie about it.
• Unable to keep schedules: The internet has you so catch that you're not able to keep schedules, you use this time to surf the internet.
• No sense of time.
• Avoiding doing work.
• Isoluation: Everytime your friends ask you of going out, you give them an excuse, in order to continue using the internet.
• Bad grades: Because you avoid doing work, your grades get worst.

Physical signs:

• Backache.
• Headaches.
• Weight gain or loss.
• Sleeplessness.
• Blurry visión.

Why is cyber-addiction so common nowadays between teenagers?

Nowadays, there are a lot of teenagers who feel  as if they don't belong anywhere. This may be because they are introverted and so it's difficult for them to make friends, or maybe because they think they don't fit into society, the principal reasons are the bullying and lack of confidence. The internet is a splendid scape mean, however, even though it provides us a place where we can we ourselves and not to be judged, or whoever we want to, it's not reality, it is a double-edged knife, they only thing we manage to do is to trick ourselves. 

How can I get rid of my addiction?

The first thing you should do, is establish some limits, maybe you could be only 5 hours surfing the internet instead of 7. With the time, it should be easier to you. A good challenge would be to spend a whole weekend doing another activities, and to leave the phone and the computer without charge.



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