Social Media Addiction (Side Effects); Child’s Brain Development | Mental Health | Sehthanama- Memory of children decreasing from social media: increasing diseases, threat warning like cigarette-moles, doctors are telling

Furious that you open your Facebook, Instagram or X and come in front of the warning –

“Its use is harmful to health.”

Just like a warning is written on cigarette packets and liquor bottles. This is not a joke. Hundreds of science studies around the world are now worrying about this.

Vivek Murthy, a doctor of Indian origin, has been a US Surgeon General in the Government of Obama and Biden in the US. Vivek Murthy, during his tenure, laid a lot of emphasis on mental health as well as mental health. He is currently running a campaign against the use of social media. He says that the way it is written on alcohol and cigarettes that it is harmful to health. In the same way, a warning should also be written on social media apps because it is causing harm to our body and mind.

In November last year, Australia banned the use of social media for children under 16 years of age. Now in many other countries, preparations are being made to bring strict laws on social media.

The reason is that more use of social media is spoiling people’s brain wiring. Its most damage is on the brain development of children and adolescents. According to Mich Princestein, Chief Science Officer of the American Psychological Association, children are dependent on social media for every little happiness. Due to this, cases of depression and anxiety are also increasing.

so ‘Sehthanama‘I will know today how the brain is being affected by social media. Will also know that-

Emotional health of children is affected

According to the research firm ‘Redsier’, Indian users spend an average of 7.3 hours on their smartphone screen every day. They spend most of this time on social media. It has a large number of children and adolescents. Therefore, they are also suffering the most. His emotional health is deteriorating due to excessive use of social media.

Memory is getting weaker than social media

According to a study by the National Library of Medicine, people are not getting sleep due to being more active on social media. This is affecting his mental health. This is weakening their memory and are suffering from anxiety, depression.

Attention span is decreasing

Attention Spain means how long you can keep your attention in any work without wandering. According to a study by the University of California, Irwin, the average attitude of humans has come down from 2.5 minutes to 47 seconds in the last 20 years. Social media addiction is a big reason behind this. What symptoms are seen when the addition span decreases. See in the gruffic-

How to get rid of social media addiction?

According to psychiatrist Dr. Krishna Mishra, the best way to quit a bad habit is to adopt a good habit in his place. You will not have enough time to wander the mind towards bad habit. See what good habits can be adopted, leaving social media addiction, in graphic-

How to improve brain functioning?

Dr. Krishna Mishra says that if someone has been using social media for a very long time, then his brain functioning gets spoiled. A lot of hard work has to be done to improve it. However, it is not cured by eating any medicine suddenly in a day. For this, many important changes have to be made in lifestyle. First of all, determine the time to use social media. Decide that they will not spend more time in a day on social media. After this, focus your attention in a creative work. Apart from this, what more changes will have to be made, see in the graphic-

Some common questions and answers related to social media and brain functioning

Question: What is a popcorn brain?

answer: In 2011, Washington University researcher David Levi used the term ‘popcorn brain’ for a mental situation. When there is no stability in the thoughts of a person, the focus is shaken, the mind is wandering fast on the second, then on the third subject, then it is called a popcorn brain. This mental situation is created by more use of social media and scrolling reels.

Question: Is creativity weakening due to excessive use of social media?

answer: Yes, this is true. Excessive use of social media reduces attention span. This affects our ability to remember, the ability to learn language and mental development. Children affected by this are unable to read by staying for a long time. There may be strange changes in their dialect language. Apart from this, their brain is also not fully developed. They are very difficult to do some creative work because for this, one has to keep attention on the same thing for a long time.

Question: Why are children the most affected by social media?

answer: Children are the most addicted to social media short videos. Therefore, children are also suffering the most.

Dr. Krishna Mishra says that at an early age, the prefrontal cortex of the brain is not fully developed, which is responsible for decision making and controlling emotions. Therefore, children are unable to control the time to use social media and watch short videos. They are unable to decide what they have to see.

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