Nomophobia, an
abbreviation for ‘no-mobile-phone phobia,’ reportedly was coined during a 2010
study by the UK Post Office. The
study compared stress levels induced by the average case of nomophobia to be
on-par with those of ‘wedding day jitters’ and trips to the dentist and found
that more than one in two nomophobes never switch off their mobile phone. An article by Carol W. Berman MD in her
article ‘One Patient’s story’ published in Scientific American MIND, indicated
that surveys in both the U.S. and the U.K. have shown that about 70 percent of
young adults feel so attached to their phone that they admit to feeling anxiety
or even panic when they are separated from it.” Researchers at the University
of Missouri found that study participants solving word puzzles experienced
increased heart rate, blood pressure, and anxiety when they were separated from
their iPhone and were less successful solving the puzzles. More tomorrow.
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