Seven-year-old Ramesh started playing online games in as a recreational activity as his parents gave him a smart phone to keep him pre-occupied. Gradually, he got addicted to them and went to the extent of threatening his parents that he will kill himself if he is not given the phone to play. Worried parents took him to noted psychiatrist Madhu Bindu who provided the boy ‘Play Therapy’ and helped him overcome his addiction.
It is not only children but both adolescents and adults who get addicted to mobile phones and spend long hours on them, ultimately requiring psychotherapy to treat the troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviours associated with mobile phone addiction, observed London-returned psychiatrist during the World Mental Health Day programme here on Tuesday.
