People undergo a lot of disorders in their day to day life. These disorders include anxiety disorders, depression etc. Now, these anxiety disorders mainly consist of different phobias. Phobia means an immense deep fear against something.
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There are different types of phobia like necrophobia, claustrophobia, hydrophobia but, have you ever heard about nomophobia? It might sound strange but nomophobia is a situation faced by people generally when they get separated from their mobile phones.
There is no doubt that today cell phones have more or less become a necessity for every individual. People are just addicted to their phones all the time. Off late it has been seen that majority of people are addicted to their phones. In a study conducted it was noted that lot of people were addicted to their phones. Mobile researchers have found that out of five, four mobile users get scared and panic if they get separated from their phones. These people cannot stay away from their phones even for a single minute.
The study also proved that young adults suffer more compared to elders. The percentage of phone addicts has indeed increased in these four years from 53% to 66%. Addicts tend to suffer from nomophobias because they rely a lot on their cell phones. They depend over cell phones for doing all kinds of activities which indirectly makes them habituate to mobile
The survey stated that 77% of people who were nomophobic range between the age group of 18 to 24. The study conducted by SecurEnvoy stated that women got more worried about losing their phones compared to men. Also there are people who own 2 phones which shows how addicted they are to their mobile devices. Some people do not give their phones to others even for a single minute as they dislike others reading their texts and contacts. Lastly it was seen that the maximum of nomophobics reside in UK and there has been no decrease in the rate of nomophobics.
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