Chapter 8 �Health care in the digital usage
Objective
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How important is it to have good physical and mental health in the digital age?
We need to understand dangers and health effects from various aspects, whether it be physical health, mental health, diseases that occur, including relationships and effects on oneself. You must understand the use of the internet and digital media to prevent, avoid, reduce impacts, and provide basic treatment methods. Both for yourself and those close to you so that you can live happily in the digital age.
How to live happily in the digital age?
Office Syndrome
Prevention of Office Syndrome
Preventing Office Syndrome While Working
Here’s some tips on setting up a proper workspace:
How can office syndrome be treated?
Currently, office syndrome is treated using various methods. That is just a treatment to relieve pain.
Exercise clip to prevent Office Syndrome
"Nomophoba”: mobile phone addiction
In the digital world where everything is convenient, chatting with friends, reading articles, following social movements or even ordering food is often done through a smartphone. It makes mobile phones seem like the 33rd organ of many people. It is a tool for living, searching for information and knowledge, and killing time during free time. Even though smartphones are a technology that can answer almost every life need in the digital age, everything has benefits and disadvantages if we use them excessively. Therefore, if you are addicted to your smartphone, it will lead to the Nomophobia disease.
Nomophobia, or smartphone addiction.
Nomophobia is the fear of living without a cell phone. Whether it's forgetting to carry your cell phone with you, your cell phone's battery running out, or being in an area with no cell signal. It makes people with this condition feel restless, irritable, stressed, sweating, trembling, or nauseous.
Nomophobia treatment
Limit the time you use your mobile phone.
As a first step, you should keep a record of the amount of time you use your cell phone for each activity. This may be divided into the amount of time spent talking on the phone. Replying to messages Using online media such as Facebook, Instagram or using other functions on your mobile phone and calculating how much time you spend on each activity within 1 week. Then try to gradually reduce the time you use your mobile phone for each activity slowly. Start with the least important activities. For example, it might take around 10 hours/week to play mobile games. Then reduce the time to only 9 hours/week and gradually reduce the game time further in the following weeks, etc.
Nomophobia treatment
Limit the time you use your mobile phone.
In addition, notifications from various applications such as Line or Facebook. It may be something that encourages you to pick up your mobile phone and use it more often, so when you need to concentrate, such as while studying, working, driving, or when you need privacy. You should turn off notifications on their phones or delete distracting applications that they don't need at the time. However, if this feels too much of a hassle, Try switching to Airplane Mode. Or turn off your mobile phone instead
Nomophobia treatment
Talk to the people around you more.
Mobile phones are a technology that makes it easier for us to communicate with one another. Some people are so addicted to talking with friends through various applications on their mobile phones that they become addicted to their mobile phones without realizing it. Although talking with friends online can help relieve loneliness when you are alone, using your mobile phone all the time while people around you are talking is inappropriate behavior. Therefore, you should refrain from using your mobile phone while talking with others because in addition to helping reduce the symptoms of mobile phone addiction. Becoming more attentive to those around you also has a positive effect on your relationships.
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