{"id":1998,"date":"2015-09-02T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:49:28","slug":"how-to-deal-with-technology-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/how-to-deal-with-technology-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deal with technology addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wake up each morning feeling like you could do with an extra hour or two before you&#8217;re ready to face the day ahead? Do you often hit the wall mid-afternoon? Do you struggle to switch off from the working day, or feel compelled to check social media last thing at night, first thing in the morning, or both?<\/p>\n<p>Then it sounds like you could be suffering from technology addiction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Vicious cycle<\/h2>\n<p>If you have got a tech addiction, all that screen time can throw you into a fatigue cycle, whereby your sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive and leaves you running on adrenaline, noradrenalin and cortisol<\/p>\n<p>And if this is the case, your body can quickly become addicted to dopamine &#8211; the pleasure chemical in the brain that is released through stimulation, and this excitement can be brought on by anything from food to sex, or even screen time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re suffering from tech addiction, you may find you can&#8217;t go to sleep when you go to bed, or if you do fall asleep you&#8217;re completely exhausted and you then wake up tired.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is your brain can&#8217;t switch off &#8211; so what can you do about it?<\/p>\n<h2>How to break the cycle<\/h2>\n<p>If you think you may be suffering from technology stress, there are four quick fixes \u00a0that could soon have you on the road to recovery (and a good night&#8217;s sleep)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Turn off the\u00a0technology an hour before you go to bed. Read books before bedtime but not e-books<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Keep your clock turned away from you at night.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Eat breakfast &#8211; or at least something small within 30 minutes of getting up and before drinking any caffeine (try a pint of chilled water instead, this kick-starts the metabolism first thing.<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Drink at least two litres of water a day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WW7ADhRacgs\" width=\"600\" height=\"495\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Keeping the kids in check<\/h2>\n<p>Technology addiction isn&#8217;t just a trait among those of us who work on computers all day and play on tablets all night &#8211; it can also affect our kids pretty badly if we&#8217;re not careful.<\/p>\n<p>When a child is exposed to too much screen time, they&#8217;re not properly developing the part of the brain that is used for singular focus &#8211; hence they can get easily distracted and have very short attention spans &#8211; and this can have a marked effect on memory and school grades.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s recommended both children and adults should have no more than two hours screen time per day (obviously, if you&#8217;ve a desk job, this will be outside of working hours) and it&#8217;s even recommended those under 12 have no screen time at all.<\/p>\n<h3>Are you suffering from technology addiction? Let us know how you&#8217;re affected or what you&#8217;ve done to deal with it.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/conference-call\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/conference-call-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wake up each morning feeling like you could do with an extra hour or two before you&#8217;re ready to face the day ahead? Do you often hit the<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/how-to-deal-with-technology-addiction\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to deal with technology addiction<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17],"tags":[8,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}