Phobia that is uneasy if you do not have a cell phone at hand "Nomophobia"

ByFoomandoonian

People who have experience experiencing ...... who carelessly worried about cell phones though they had to leave their charging cell phone inadvertently when they go out in the morning and have to do something else It may be "Nomophobia (Nomophobia)" who fears that there is no mobile phone.

Nomophobia - fear of being without your phone - is on the rise - latimes.com

Nomophobia is an abbreviation for No-Mobile-Phobia, that is, "phobia to not having a mobile phone".

"I am worried that cell phones are not nearby" "I just feel excited to imagine losing my mobile phone" "I have a spare in preparation for when my cell phone is broken." Even when I go to bed, A person who applies to all of this, "There is a mobile phone nearby" may be exactly Nomophobia.

The number of people in Nomophobia is gradually increasing, and SecurEnvoy investigated in the UK, 66% of 1,000 people had Nomophobia-like elements. In the survey four years ago, this figure was 53%, and men were concerned about losing their mobile phones, but this survey showed a remarkable tendency among women, 61%, 70% of women were Nomophobia. However, this is seen as a difference because there are many cases where men have two mobile phones.

The age at which Nomophobia tendency was the strongest was 77% at 18 to 24 years old, followed by 68% at 25 to 34 years old, the third was over 55 years old.

ByMrGiles

Exposure therapy is suitable for treatment of Nomophobia, starting with the image of the life without mobile phones at first, then we will continue to live a mobile phone for a short time actually. However, in case of a serious person, drug treatment will be considered.

Now that it is possible to use it in a skyscraper or an underground shopping center, it may be more rare to live without using a mobile phone or a smartphone, but I would like to become a body that can not live without a cell phone or a smartphone There is nothing.