Rethinking your relationship with your smartphone can help you stay focused and curb mental illness.
Nearly two decades into the smartphone era, some experts are warning of the potential dangers of being plugged in anytime, anywhere. Especially when it comes to those whose brains are still developing.
His new book, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" he argues that the constant access to social media that phones have given us has led to social comparison, sleep deprivation and loneliness in Gen Z. "The goal of technology is that it's a tool that we use to meet our goals," he says. "If it's not doing that, it ends up using us at the cost of our goals."
"We used flip phones to connect with each other in order to eventually meet in person," Rausch says. "The online world is kind of the opposite. We connect in order to stay there. And our argument is that that's not sufficient."
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