Smartphone addiction risks suicide

Teenage children take a smartphone for more than five hours a day? Now be careful now! Because, from this, they feel depressed. These depressions can push themselves into making terrible decisions like suicide. A recent study has found this information.

According to the Hindustan Times report, recently a researcher from Florida State University and San Diego State University of the US researched the study of children's addiction to smartphones.

Thomas Joyner, professor of suicide at Florida State University, said: "Spending extra time on the screen of a smartphone or other electronic device has a risky connection to suicide, depression, suicide imagination and attempt to suicide. These aspects of mental health are very dangerous. I think it's time for parents to think about these things now. '

It is said in the report that children look at the smartphone or other electronic device's screen, or watch the threshold, to monitor the mother-father, Thomas Joyner says.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), since 2010, the tendency of depression and suicide in teenagers aged 13 to 18 years has increased dramatically. Especially for teenagers, this rate is even higher. Teenage teenager's suicide rate increased 31 percent in 2010-2015.

US National Survey data, the rate of depression in adolescents has increased 33 percent more than before.

Researchers say that the excessive use of electronic devices is most responsible for it.

According to the research report, the percentage of adolescents having extra time spent on smartphones or electronic devices since the year 2015 is 92 percent. 48 percent of the children who spent five hours or more on the screen were found to be suicidal behavior.

San Diego State University researcher Gene Twenjee said that the results of the research have shown that teenagers who spend extra time with electronic devices, are more likely to be unhappy.

Researchers say that the research indicates that those who leave electronic devices spend time with the games, exercises, face-to-face meetings with friends, they are more likely to be happy. But limited time, like spending a day or two hours on a smartphone or electronic device screen, is safe.