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People from children to elders keep phone calls for many hours and they do not know how much time has passed. Especially in mobile timing, people spend the most time scrolling reels and short videos. Due to the lack of physical active nes, problems like stiffness, pain, deterioration of posture are common, apart from this, the addiction to watch reel also affects mental health. In today's time, this is becoming a serious problem. Apart from mental fatigue due to long -term meditation on the screen, there can be irritation, itching, dryness in the eyes. Those who run the phone till late night, there may be lack of sleep. You will learn from experts about how reels affect your memory.

The addiction to watching the reel or short video causes the waste of time, due to which the body starts to become a home of many diseases, because during this time the person remains sitting in the same posture for a long time and due to the life, obesity can be obese, back, capricorn pain, neck stiffness. This also affects focus and concentration. Let us know what is the effect on mental health.

What do experts say?

Narayana Hospital, Gurugram Neuro and Spine Surgery Expert… Director and Head of Department Dr. Utkarsh Bhagat says that watching the short video continuously has a negative effect on both meditation and memory, so it is very important that it is important to run the phone for limited time and during this time it is also right to reduce the video or reel.

The focus is not right

To complete any work properly, it is necessary that the focus remains correct, but Dr. says that interesting content, it becomes difficult to focus on more complex tasks than constant, such as book reading, the ability to work on a difficult project is affected.

Cosmopolia

Experts say that due to sudden context-switching, the burden on the brain increases. This affects your cognitive (strength to think and understand). For example, if you are watching reel or shorts and then you have to shift your focus and put it to other work, it makes it difficult to maintain that work. It becomes difficult to maintain attention on the same task.

Attenration control

Doctors say that some studies have also found that it is difficult to focus on the short-form videos and they feel difficulty in avoiding any kind of hindrance. The difficulty in avoiding the reason behind this is believed to be more excited of the brain's reward system.

Change the reward system

The content of most platforms serves to trigger dopamine release, which is very similar to addictive things. When you watch these videos for several hours, then the reward system of the brain can be insensitive due to continuous dopamine hit, which makes it difficult to enjoy in normal activities. Therefore, symptoms like irritability, anxiety may be seen in the mood.

What is the effect on memory?

According to Dr. Utkarsh Bhagat, the content continues to change in short videos, affecting the working memory (ability to handle and use information). Apart from this, there is also an impact on the prospectful memory (remembering that a plan is to complete).

Loser

Short-form content is very beneficial in providing rapid information, but some studies have said that its high speed is not favorable to maintain memory for a long time and understand the difficult subject. It is very important that scroll in a limited amount of reels. Set a limit daily for yourself. More screen time makes the skin old as well as a bad effect on the eyes.