Watching TV-mobile for a long time of teenagers and children reduced sleep, affecting mental health

With the start of a new academic year, parents struggle to get their kids back into a healthy sleep routine. To do this in many cases, there is a need to control the time children spend on TV-mobiles, especially in the late evening. However, as easy as it is to talk about implementing these rules, it is equally difficult to implement them. A body of researchers has uncovered a strong link between sleep, mental health and screen time in adolescents and tweens (10 to 12-year-olds). In the midst of an unprecedented mental health crisis, with nearly 42 percent of teens in the US suffering from mental health issues, they are getting very little sleep. It’s a vicious cycle, in which less sleep and more time spent on social media and video games before bedtime can increase depression and stress.

I am physician-in-chief of the Sleep Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where I study a variety of sleep disorders in children. Our team of physicians and providers regularly observe the negative effects of excessive time spent on TV-mobiles and especially social media, which affect not only sleep, but also the physical and mental health of our patients. Are. Association between mental health and poor sleep Research has long shown a clear link between mental health and sleep, with poor sleep leading to poor mental health and poor mental health leading to poor sleep. Can People with depression and anxiety commonly have insomnia, a condition in which people have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, or both.

In addition, insomnia and poor quality sleep can also nullify the benefits of therapy and medication. In the worst case scenario, persistent sleep deprivation increases the risk of suicidal thoughts. One study found that just one hour less sleep during the week was associated with a “higher likelihood of feeling depressed, seriously considering suicide, and using substances.” It was also found that when teenagers did not sleep even after lying down at the right time or had an in between eye-opening, they spent most of the time on their smartphones. In a study of more than 120,000 youth ages 6 to 18 worldwide, those who are active on social media in any way were found to have more frequent insomnia and poor sleep.

This is happening not only in America but all over the world. TV-mobile screens and the tremendous allure of social media are some of the benefits of social media, but I believe research has made it clear that there are far more downsides to using social media than benefits.First of all, being active on social media requires staying awake, so sleep gets disturbed. Second, the light emitted from most hand-held devices causes the levels of the hormone ‘melatonin’ to decrease. This hormone signals the onset of sleep.

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