Sitting at the screens spoils the mood and is stressful.

Chronically irritable people often are in a state of unusually high excitement. It may seem strange that they behave and look tired, but in fact it means that they are excited and exhausted. Because the chronically high level of excitement affects memory and the ability to communicate, these people may also find difficult to fit in social environment and everything just because they daily spend too much time to electronic devices.

Electronic interference in the child-rearing process creates a significant physiological dysfunction arising from the daily time spent to the displays. Children’s brain to electronics reacts much more sensitive than we can imagine. Many parents mistakenly believe that the interactive time to the screens – Internet or social networks, correspondence, e-mails sending or computer games – is not harmful as passive TV screen watching. Not at all, using interactive displays significantly more likely to induce sleep, mood, and cognitive disorders.

Time spent at the screens, disturbs sleep and desynchronizes biological clock. Since the display light simulates the time of day, it inhibits loss of melatonin hormone that is produced mainly at night during sleep. When the screen light stimulation lasts up to several hours, it destabilizes the biological clock. In addition, high arousal prevents from deep sleep, namely, deep sleep can help our body to recover.

Many children are dependent on the use of electronic devices, because playing computer games the body produces so much dopamine, a feel-good “chemical compound that the brain seems as if it were used drugs. However, over time the body becomes less sensitive to dopamine, therefore need more and more stimulation to experience pleasure. The child becomes addicted to computer games and other activities to the screen.

Time spent to the screens leads to stressful reactions. Both acute and chronic stress cause changes in the brain and hormonal composition, which can increase irritation. In fact, cortisol, chronic stress hormone, can be a cause of depression and the result, and so starts the vicious circle.

Presence time at screens irritates the sensory system, interferes with attention and depletes mental reserves. Experts say that often behind the aggressive behavior is hiding the lack of attention. When there is a lack of focus, it is hard to cope with internal feelings and external environment. High-resolution screens reduce mental energy reserves, which are increasingly exhausted. Anger is one of the ways to temporarily increase the reserves, so over time the human mood is only getting worse.

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