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COVID pandemic dictated new normals are leading to screen addictions and tech mania



With the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic restrictions couple with on-line teaching and work-from-home as new norms, very many people are falling prey to to Screen addiction and tech mania which are also becomes new mental diseases termed 'obsessive-compulsive disorder'.


According to Kishore, screen addiction is a group of behaviors that are negative, some negative outcomes that can happen when we use too much technology during our day. So prolonged use of watching TV, video games, scrolling through social media all of that use acts like a digital drug for our brain.


It has been reported and felt by social-psycho therapists that Screen Addiction Affects Physical and Mental Health of individuals. "Tech mania and screen addiction are being viewed as new mental diseases by the psychiatrists and modern sins by various religions," adds Kishore further stating that tech mania has spread globally due to social distancing mandated by the pandemic COVID-19 which has made on-line working and on-line learning a norm. Consequently, the screen addiction as obsessive-compulsive disorder has hit the toddlers even.


Kishore warns that the screen addiction and tech mania isolate their victims to ruin them socially, emotionally, ethically and economically since modern technology gadgets are expensive but both the body and brain both get exposed to dangerous radiations that can cause many life-risking diseases such as early heart attack and brain tumour besides sloth, laziness, obesity and hard wax in ears leading to auditory problems.

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