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Smartphone Addiction and Sleep: Not only children but young people are also troubled by the addiction of smartphone. This is such a addiction that does not know when its addiction is making you a victim. Because you also work with the phone, but due to the same work, when you start spending most of the day to check the phone. The question is, how is smartphone addiction to your sleep too? Will understand the reason for this.
In today’s internet time, an important part of our life is passing around the smartphone. As soon as we wake up in the morning, we check the phone and run the phone till just before sleeping at night. Things like social media, video games, OTT, online shopping and chatting have changed the smartphone to a kind of addiction. Due to this addiction, there is a problem in sleep and the sleep cycle gets completely spoiled.
Why is sleeping less?
The blue light coming out of the smartphone has a profound effect on the brain. This light released from the phone presses the melatonin hormone made in the body. This hormone work is sleepy. When this melatonin is not made properly, we have difficulty in sleeping. This is the reason that people running mobiles till night often have sleep problems.
Smartphone and Sleep Mathematics
Sleeping at night when you are lying on the bed, then just five minutes and the video should be seen or chat with someone or the time to watch the video for five minutes, when it turns in hours, it is not known. Due to this, the time of sleeping goes out and sleeping at the wrong time either you sleep till late in the morning or get up in half sleep early. This is why sleep is not complete and the sleep cycle deteriorates. It is dangerous that sleep stops every day.
Increasing problems due to lack of sleep
- Due to lack of sleep, both body and brain are damaged.
- There is difficulty in meditating with low sleep.
- The mood is bad, irritable and a decrease in the ability to work.
- Lack of sleep increases the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes.
- Late night wake up, it causes junk food, which increases obesity.
- If this happens for a long time, it also increases the risk of serious diseases like depression.
- Lack of sleep also affects children’s memory and learning capacity.
- Being FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) due to social media is also the cause of phone addiction.
How to get rid of smartphone addiction?
If you are also feeling sleepy due to smartphones, then some easy habits can help-
- Avoid unnecessary scrolling.
- Turn off the mobile at least one hour before sleeping.
- Do not keep the phone on the bed at night.
- If you want, use a digital clock for the alarm.
- Make a fixed time for the use of smartphones throughout the day.
- Make a habit of reading the book or do meditation before bedtime.