Mobile Phone Addiction (MPA)

Teenagers who use mobile phones for many hours for day – talking and sending messages or missed calls may develop psychological disorders call Mobile Phone Addiction(MPA). Every four in ten young people in Spain, for whom their mobile phone has turned into an addiction that can lead them to consequences as dangerous as those caused by alcohol or drugs.

Emma is just another Spanish teenager, If it were not for her mobile phone, she has nine of them, and develops a severe anxiety if she has to enter a place where they have no coverage. She has forsaken her friends for sake of unknown chat partners to whom she some times sends more than 200 messages in one night. Her mother says she has not slept sufficiently for three years, runs up huge phone bills, and become one of the biggest non drug addictions in the 21^st century

Psychiatric say mobile phone addiction is an obsessive-compulsive disorder which looks set to become one of the biggest non – drug addictions in the 21^st century. In Spain, a country of 41 millions people which has nearly 35 million cell phones, users are estimated to spend more than SA824.33 million) on unnecessary mobile phone costs annually.

In fact, addiction to mobile phones should be included into a greater group- that of addiction to new technologies. "This is the result of the dramatic change in values talking place in our times. Likewise the happy movement, a new generation of teenagers is arising and they have grown up surrounded by mobile phones and the Internet", say the author of this work, who highlights that part of the blame is to be put on "many parents who buy a mobile phone to their children and force them to have it constantly connected so as to always know where they are". Spanish specialist treat mobile phone addictions with three-month therapies. Experts stress that addictions can sometimes be pre-empted , If parent or teachers spot them early.