Psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos highlights how phone addiction could be harming your wellbeing.
A new poll has found that 42 per cent of British adults identify with ‘nomophobia’ – the fear of being stuck without mobile phone connectivity.
Of the 2,000 people surveyed by Sky Mobile, 23 per cent said they would rather hold a tarantula, 14 per cent said they would prefer to go swimming with sharks, and 15 per cent said sleeping in a haunted house would be better than being without 5G for an entire week.Here’s what you need to know about phone addiction – and how it might be impacting our wellbeing.
"There’s also this thing where we think our phone is vibrating, and it’s not. That’s another sign too.""They’re no longer just phones, right? They are these digital prostheses, which we use to do everything from learn to work to connect," said Papadopoulos. How might it be impacting our wellbeing? "It all depends on what we are doing with our phones. If I’m sitting down doom scrolling, of course it will affect how I’m feeling. That’s not great," she suggested.
"For example, if a 12-year-old girl is posting a bunch of things on social media and sitting at her phone waiting for likes, that would be a sign of her phone affecting her mental health."
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