The cell phone is for adults as much as the teddy bears for children

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According to a new survey conducted by the Solitaired gaming website, we use our phones all the time and everywhere. From our work to the toilet, to social events, while we drive (do not do this for any reason) literally everywhere.

The percentages are shocking, showing that our mobile phone addiction has gone to other – scary – levels.

In fact, in this survey, 40% of respondents said that they check their phones immediately after sex, while 99% said that he used his phone while watching TV.

42% said they were looking at their phone while crossing the street and a third while cycling or skating. Sounds dangerous right? And it is!

44% of them said they had injured themselves by falling or hitting something, as their focus was on their phone and not on the street.

The theory of attachment and smartphones

The theory of attachment states that our early life experiences with the main personalities responsible for our well-being, namely parents or other caregivers, are at the root of our connections with the adults with whom we have a close relationship.

It is important that attachment to early life can be extended to inanimate objects. Teddy bears, for example, serve as what DW attachment theorist Winnicot calls “transitional objects.”

The teddy bear, unlike the parent, is always there. When children can not be with their parents, they can always be with their teddy bear.

These stuffed animals also serve as a transition between addiction and independence when young children begin to develop a distinct sense of self.

The cell phone is the teddy bear of adults.

The average mobile or smartphone usage in the US is 3.3 hours a day. Young adults (aged 18 to 24) even report an average of 5.2 hours per day.

As “adult teddy bears” phones have a number of advantages. They provide social connection with the people we are interested in, we read their messages, we see photos. We can learn their news in real time, feeling less lonely this way.

Obviously, as it turns out, we never go beyond our need for teddy bears. In whatever form they come into our lives.

For people with a more anxious attachment style, the teddy bear they need is what keeps them connected to their wider social world.

Maybe if we catch ourselves, he can not spend his day without his phone and without the constant checking on social media, we must ask ourselves if we can seek completeness in our relationships with others, in the real and not in the virtual people.

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