How do I know it's really up? Your phone changes your brain as the average person touches their phone 2,600 times per day. And this constant scrolling has altered your brains neurology. So what would happen to your brain and bought a? If you're tried to quit your phone, after one hour of quitting, you have likely tried to pick up your phone, three to four times because the average person picks up their phone 52 times per day. After 12 hours of quitting, you may start to feel anxious as not. Checking your phone actually releases. The stress hormone cortisol, this is due to how your phone changes. These three neural Pathways in your brain. They are activated when anticipating or experiencing a reward your phone's Tik-Tok notifications text messages or Instagram story updates. I'll act as many rewards to your brain and physically change how these Pathways work in the new absence of your phone cortisol is released because when you're endlessly scrolling or using social media to positive social Interactions reward the brain and cause constant firing. This causes a release of dopamine along these Pathways in response to your phone's constant stimulus. Everyday notification every thought he's sexy photo of someone Instagram. A text message from a friend acts as a mini reward that you now associate with picking up your phone and these little associations becomes stronger and stronger in the Noggin until you're just constantly picking up your phone and, and sometimes you're on the phone with your mom, for example, and looking for your phone. You're like, wait, where's the phone to do shit in my hand? This way? Not on the phone and then you realize that we're all in the crisis of the South own age. So, after 12 hours of quitting, you're no longer checking your phone, this lock of stimulus that you're used to in your brain causes a stress response and you start to feel anxious.
I hate this thing is he really loved it more than anything in the world after 24 hours of quitting. And one survey found that people began to experience fomo, the fear of missing out, which led to increased, heart rate, increased blood pressure and more Or anxiety other people had increased anxiety, but they couldn't exactly explain. Why. It wasn't just because of fomo, for example. But it is likely due to the fact that these tech companies have actually hijacked our brains. Using the reward prediction are encoding of our Noggins tech companies have studied these neuronal Concepts in order to keep you using their products. If you look at this dopamine activity and reward chart, you see that, you learn behaviors. When you've got a reward without a cue, you keep. Behaviors when you anticipate a rewarding against them are satisfied and you change a behavior when you anticipate a good reward, but it's worse than expected. So you don't want to do it again. This is all linked to our human evolution ability to survive. We predict a yummy yummy food, the yummy, yummy food. Gives us Health, we learn the behavior, we continue to eat, but when applying this to our phone, we often can't predict what is going to happen when we check our phone and with notifications, like some communication. We are mostly always rewarded by checking it. Yes, we're to constantly check our phone. Also, since checking your phone is such a low cost effort, you expect small rewards that are mostly satisfied. So you continue the behavior of checking your phone, the hijacking of these neuronal Pathways means you have strong incentives to check your phone over and over and over. And again now that you've quicker found, the stimulus is removed and that actually leads to increased anxiety day. 3 of quitting is when most people start to feel the Phantom vibration or Phantom ringing. Of their cell phone that is no longer there. This is one quitting. Your phone starts to feel like a horror movie. You'll literally start to feel your phone buzzing in your leg, even though it's not there, like a goddamn ghost of your old phone, but day 3 of quitting is when some good things start to happen because you may begin to be rewarded by your friends, your family, your loved it because you're actually not paying attention to them, you are no longer phubbing which is snubbing your loved ones for your phono, loved one, please stop talking. I must snubbed the for I am looking at hot man lifting weight topless On Instagram, one study had participants view. An animation pretending to be with a sexual partner. One animation, check their phone throughout the other did not the participants perceived, the people who didn't check their phone as having a better quality of communication and increased relationship satisfaction after three days of quitting your phone. You may start to notice that your relationships are improving after day 5 of quitting, your phone, and your attention span may increase, you may even start noticing that you're doing better. Work and school small study of. And students who actively use their phones founding. Now focus on subjects for only 60 to 65 Seconds. Another study of office workers who use their phones at work. Found they can only focus for three minutes at a time, but a study at the Carnegie Mellon University's human-computer. Interaction lab took 136 students and got them to sit a test. Some of them had to have their phone Switched Off and the others had their phones on and received intermittent text messages, the students who receive text messages Has performed on average 20% worse than those who had their phones off. This is because your conscious brain can only produce one or two thoughts at once. Every time you open a text message or check a notification, your brain has to switch from task to task creating these switch cost effect, making it harder for you to concentrate, but since you've quit your phone, you are switching tasks less often, and you may start to notice your attention span increasing and your ability to do better work. School or even at time job after five to seven days of quitting and your cognition will continue to improve a study of six hundred and sixty people, examine the analytical cognitive styles of its participants on average participants with stronger cognitive skills spent less time using their smartphones. This study went, as far to say there may be a potential link between heavy smartphone use and decreased intelligence reading. That study was a blow to the ego because I am known for using my phone. All More than a lot of other people and therefore, yes, it's a bit of proof that I am dumb after one week. A long-term study found reducing cell phone use, caused improved sleep. Some scientists argue that it is the psychological arousal of the phone that affects our sleep others argue.
It's the light from the screen. You know, you've heard all about the blue light. Like, it's burning my eyes. And it's late. There isn't any hard evidence as to why these cell phones are making me sleep less just some surveys and large studies about people who use their cellphones less getting better, sleep, do with that as you win after 14 days, I've no phone anxiety. Has decreased. Some studies even hint that you may have decreased depression. This is because Studies have found that phone use, may be associated with depression. Although it is hard to say, whether your phone causes depression but one study found that teens who spend Five hours daily on their mobile devices. Are 71 percent, more likely to develop a risk factors for depression, compared to those who only use their phone for an hour. After two weeks, you will also have reduced neck and wrist pain. One study found that the longer you used your phone, the more likely you were to have neck pain people who over use their phone could also affect their hand stray. This is because of an increased size in your median nerve and decreased grip strength.
To using your phone. The median nerve starts from your shoulder down to all your fingers, except your pinky on the palm side. This increase in size of the nerve from using. Your phone means that you have a higher risk of getting carpal tunnel syndrome, which is defined by numbness tingling and weakness in your hands. So after two weeks of not using your phone, you're potentially healing, not just your brain, but your body to.