You always have your cell phone with you.
Forget it?
There’s no such thing.
Because you’d notice after just a few minutes.
Without your cell phone, you feel naked, even panic or become aggressive and sometimes even feel physical discomfort such as a racing heart?
Here you can find out how to recognize a cell phone addiction and how to combat it .
Fighting cell phone addiction? Not me...
There is even a technical term for “cell phone addiction”: “nomophobia”.
It means “no mobile phone phobia” or “Fomo” (fear of missing out), i.e. the fear of not having your cell phone with you and thus missing something .
Not everyone who looks at their cell phone often has to fight a cell phone addiction.
You should worry if friends or relatives draw your attention to your cell phone use.
You should also think about your cell phone use if you are neglecting real social contacts or your hobbies.
Cell phone use is so high, especially among young people, due to platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, WhatsApp and many other apps, that studies in Germany classify more than three percent of 12 to 17-year-olds as cell phone addicts.
Signs: How do you know you're a cell phone addict?
There are a few signs that you can use to recognize whether you should fight cell phone addiction:
- You always have your cell phone with you.
Whether you’re in bed, in the car, at a meeting or at dinner – your cell phone is always within reach or you hold it in your hand almost all the time?
A sign that you may be suffering from “cell phone addiction”.
- You get restless when you don’t have your smartphone with you.
You’re on a romantic date with your loved one and after fifteen minutes you already feel like looking at your phone.
- It’s also worrying if you can’t go without your smartphone for even a short time without feeling stress, anger, annoyance or frustration.
- Some people even get physical problems such as palpitations or sweating without a cell phone .
- You have a guilty conscience.
You know that your cell phone use is not healthy and therefore have a guilty conscience.
Nevertheless, you play down the problem when others talk to you about it.
- You have difficulty concentrating.
When you’re doing something else, you find it difficult to concentrate on the task at hand.
You keep interrupting your activity to look at your cell phone.
- You sleep badly. You have trouble falling asleep and often can’t sleep through the night because you feel like you have to look at your cell phone even at night.
5 tips - how to fight your cell phone addiction
The following measures can help with nomophobia or cell phone addiction:
- Slowly wean yourself off your cell phone! Going “cold turkey” from your cell phone is not advisable and usually not possible.
Resolve not to use your cell phone for a certain period of time!
Start with a few minutes and build up slowly.
- Silent messages: We unlock the screen more than 80 times a day. Mute your notifications! This way you are not constantly tempted to check them.
- Set response times for your notifications! Only reply to emails and messages within a precisely defined period of time.
- Consciously set a cell phone-free time! Whether on vacation, at the weekend or in the evening – set a specific time when you don’t use your cell phone!
For example, hand it over to someone you trust during this time.
- Switch off your smartphone! If you switch off your cell phone from time to time, you will realize that it is not essential to your survival.
You may then rediscover the joy of your hobbies and real contacts.
Do without your smartphone and enjoy a new quality of life
If you switch off your smartphone regularly, you will not only benefit from less stress, healthier relationships, hobbies and more mindfulness.
You will see that a digital detox helps your concentration and performance.
You may also sleep better if you switch off your cell phone more often.
After all, it’s not just blue light that can have a negative impact on you, but also cell phone radiation.
But you can protect yourself from this with VIVOBASE devices.
