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Why are we all addicted to our smartphones?

2022-12-16T05:19:23.459Z

PSYCHOLOGY - Digital hygiene reduces stress and saves valuable time in “real life”. The most extreme cases require gradual withdrawal as part of therapy.



“The biggest disaster after the war is the cell phone!

, declared recently Fabrice Luchini in TV Mag.

In this interview, the actor recalled the risk for our brain

"to drink only clashes, anger and become more and more binary"

by dint of consulting Twitter or TikTok on his smartphone... while recognizing

"to be addicted to this crap”

.

The actor's remarks illustrate our ambivalence around the mobile phone which we know makes us more sedentary, affects our concentration and disturbs our sleep… but which we cannot manage to do without.

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For many people, checking their smartphone is the first mechanical gesture of the day.

Doing it in the toilet, in the waiting room or in the middle of a cinema session is no longer incongruous.

A Bouygues Télécom survey in 2018 revealed that 62% of French people could not spend a day without their phone, a proportion that…

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Source: lefigaro

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