Addiction to cell phone can cause brain damage

Latest social disease is global addiction to mobile phones. It seems every one is too much addicted to this technology gadget and often they are unaware that they have developed an addiction syndrome.Researchers currently are writing many articles about the bad influence of this twenty first century technology gadget on our brain cells. People can develop depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and other complicated mental diseases as a result of this addiction.Depression symptoms are feeling low and sorrowful for long periods of time. Researchers have identified addiction to any substance to be a major cause behind depression. According to researchers, although we may use the cell phone to forget loneliness, often cell phones can make us feel lonesome and sad. This loneliness can cause depression in our minds. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is another negative result of too much mobile phone usage. Patients of this mental disease repeatedly think about the same thing over and over again. They test the same thing repeatedly. Generally, smart phone alarm or notification help us to remember something. However , those suffering from OCD think of this alarm as the maximum safest tehnique. They repeatedly think that this alarm can never be wrong and this thought goes on and on in their mind.Social skills are also lost due to so much mobile phone usage. Mostly this is seen among the young generation. They are always speaking on the phone, texting to peers and playing games. As a result they forget to behave courteously to people around them. They fail to develop social skills as a result of these bad habits.It can be mentioned here that phone addiction is similar to alcohol addiction. Researchers have found out that as drinking affects a special site of the brain, similarly too much mobile phone usage can have can affect on our brain.