Textaphrenia
Textaphrenia is an apprehension that a text message had arrived. While in reality, there is no text message arrived yet. It is defined as a “disease of text messages or addiction to text messages” . In other words, Textaphrenia is an apprehension that a text message had arrived. While in reality, there is no text message arrived yet. Textiety is the anxious feeling of not receiving or sending text messages. This newly emerging mental health problem has the potential to become a pandemic of modern era.Textiety is the anxious feeling of not receiving or sending text messages.
The symptoms od texaphrenia are:
►Auditory hallucination and
►Delusion
, w►here the affected individual believes that he had heard a text message tone
►or feel that his handset is vibrating, while in reality there is actually no new message in the inbox of his mobile/smartphones.
►Anxiety,
►Anorexia,
►Insecurity,
►Disappointment,
►Depression,
►Irritation,
►Excessive cellphone usage,
►Low self-esteem,
►Repetitive thumb syndrome.
The population affected are teenagers who extensively use their cellphones.
The screening criteria for Textaphrenia which can be used for generation of awareness in public are as follows -
♦If an individual has checked his mobile/smart phones for text message at least 8 times in an hour without receiving any real text message for at least on 2 successive occasions during that hour, then he might be suffering from Textaphrenia.
♦ If an individual has kept his mobile/smart phones on silent mode, but still claim to hear the tone of text messages on 2 successive occasions during an hour, then he also might be suffering from Textaphrenia
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