Mumbai: Binge-watching teen told to give up phone

Mumbai | Sunday | 18th November, 2018

Summary:

A teenager's night-time obsession with online streaming service Netflix has left with an ordinary mobile phone. While his girlfriend had been undergoing therapy for a few weeks, the teenager was called by the psychiatrist at KEM Hospital a week ago. His parents have now realised that he is not able to give up watching web series," said the psychiatry department's head, Dr Shubhangi Parkar. During the upcoming sessions we will educate him about his addiction, which he is not able to understand even now," Parkar said. "He is showing features of depression such as, not making eye contact while talking, not being concerned about people talking to him..