04. Negative effects on people

Well, of course no one doubts that addictions are a problem, the point is that addiction to the screens have a proportion that cannot be predicted, because the use of them, in all areas of life

The technologies that are inserted in in all places and growth, how it is going in geometric progression because they are increasing the risk of uncontrolled use that it is really worrying, luckily it starts to worry in the scientific community

Screen addiction is certainly comparable to the effects of psychoactive substances, at least we think in dependence

Most people aren´t even aware of the size of the problem, They are not aware that this is going to be a problem in a little while, with features impossible to determine

People only notice some symptoms or warning signs when they appear, so they complain in the environment, that they sleep worse, that performance decreases, that young people move less, that there is abandonment of activities that they used to do and now they don´t, they have stopped doing, they even eat worse

And there is also a very important aspect which is the amount of anxiety and stress that is being generated and something more extreme, which is behaviors really aggressive, that sometimes lead to a really delicate situation

And well, self-esteem and the feeling of emptiness that is also really present

Abusive use in young people between 11 and 25 years old is increasing by a huge proportion, 98% are mobile users and they all recognized themselves really active on the internet beside More than 70% say they spend more than an hour and a half in front of the screen, surely it is more

So it's important that people know the topic and well

and that they stop using it for everything, to meet people, to have a private space, to search for information sometimes even from adults who are not the same age as they, in short, to play logically, gaming also plays an important role

At schools, they don´t known how to control the problem many times, but parents realize that their children are not focused or not motivated or they are uninhibited and before they were not, or children don´t handle impulse well, they are really impulsive

The scientific reality between the pathological and the non-pathological or excessive use is not well defined and this does not help much either

Also and fortunately there is a lot of research advancing on this problem and well, in our center there is, in fact, a line of research in addictions, but, honestly, we need the whole scientific community that deals with this human aspect to start investigating and to be able to determine in a preventive way so that this in a very short time doesn't overwhelm us