Smartphone Addiction Is a Reason for Depression among Adolescence and Early Adult Students of Kolkata City

The present study focused that relationship between smartphone addiction and depression is highly alarming on adolescent and early young students in Kolkata city. Adolescent students were more smartphone addicted and depressed than Early adult students. Depression caused different factors like, students with low self-esteem, who are easily overwhelmed by stress, or who are generally to get worse they felt mental distress, such as sleep deprivation, mood swing, anger management issues, loss of appetite, anxiety and energy deprivation. The dependency of one person on person is fading away, this has become one of the most difficult problems in the society. No having a good smart phone costs the mind and feel depressed. They do not get a chance to see what is happening around the locality, even they ignore their family members and family function. But Smartphone has changed the outlook of the family, with the introduction of smartphone to our life, and personal life become more and more mechanistic. It is time to take measures to prevalent mobile dependency on those who are doing mobile launch business. National awareness campaign against the use of other addicts should be done on the students or society about the terrible consequences of smartphone addiction. Due to moderate level of depression, there are need to Psychological counselling, include CBT, interpersonal psychotherapy, and problem-solving treatment, among and improve their mental well-being.

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