Smartphone Addiction and its Linkage with Sleep disorder

In the urban lifestyle use of smartphones is very common; in fact, the current generation is extremely addicted to Smartphone and this habit is producing several kinds of adverse in terms of health. In order to improve your health and to live a happy and healthy life, you should not ignore the health risks of the smartphone. Specifically, the use of smartphones in bed lead to a sleep disorder, and sleep disorder is a source to develop numerous other diseases. Evidently, people do not consider this habit as a serious threat to their health and unaware of its serious consequences. According to mental health specialists, smartphones should not be used in bed because it may develop insomnia which can produce several other diseases (Rod, Dissing, Clark, Gerds & Lund, 2018).
Insomnia and its Impact on your body
Before conducting research on the relation of smartphones and insomnia, we need to understand this disease and its adverse effects on your health. Basically, insomnia is a sleep disorder, and because of this disease, a patient faces difficulties in falling asleep. However, it can be acute or chronic, and insomnia may develop several other diseases. In addition to this, there are two stages of insomnia one is primary and another is secondary. In the primary stage, a person may have sleep problems that are not directly associated with any other health problem. On the other hand, the second stage of insomnia possesses numerous health problems such as asthma, depression, heartburn, and pain. Therefore, it is vital to understand that having proper sleep is necessary to improve your overall health because it assists in reducing stress, controlling blood pressure, keeping the heart healthy, improving memory, and bringing happiness in life. Most importantly, with the help of sleep your body repairs itself, and while sleeping your body make white blood cells that help in the healing process. Conversely, when you do not get enough sleep your immune system got weak and not able to protect the body from infection and diseases. Therefore, having proper sleep is pre-requisite to live a happy, healthy and progressive life (Khan, Nock & Gooneratne, 2015).

Improve your Sleep order

According to several research studies, 10pm to 2pm is an effective period to have a proper sleep, because while sleeping in this timing a person obtains maximum health advantages. Whereas, sleeping late night produces extra-ordinary adverse effects on your overall health. Therefore, 10pm is a perfect bedtime, however, after reaching in bed smartphone must be ignored so that you will be able to have a proper sleep. Besides it, use of the smartphone in bed leads to stress, depression and anxious behavior because after spending a hectic life your mind needs relaxation, in contrast, by engaging with mobile you do not get proper sleep and ultimately, the results take place in the form of stress and anxiety in your life. The numbers of researches diagnosed that blue light of smartphones disrupts the production of melatonin, and it is a hormone that regulates the body’s sleep cycle. Consequently, smartphone plays a leading role in your sleepless night and ultimately develop fatigue in your body. As I mentioned earlier that the sleep disorder may develop not only fatigue but several other health risks are also associated with this problem such as depression, anxiety, cardiovascular diseases, obesity and so on (Yoshimura et al., 2017). Therefore, before going in bed, keep the smartphone away from your access so that you will not start using it in bed easily.

References
Khan, M., Nock, R., & Gooneratne, N. (2015). Mobile Devices and Insomnia: Understanding Risks and Benefits. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 1(4), 226-231. doi: 10.1007/s40675-015-0027-7
Rod, N., Dissing, A., Clark, A., Gerds, T., & Lund, R. (2018). Overnight smartphone use: A new public health challenge? A novel study design based on high-resolution smartphone data. PLOS ONE, 13(10), e0204811. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204811
Yoshimura, M., Kitazawa, M., Maeda, Y., Mimura, M., Tsubota, K., & Kishimoto, T. (2017). Smartphone viewing distance and sleep: an experimental study utilizing motion capture technology. Nature And Science Of Sleep, Volume 9, 59-65. doi: 10.2147/nss.s123319

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