The boundless world of the Internet is vibrant with opportunities. This opportunities at times take a toll on one’s health if given unrestricted access, especially to teens and adolescents.  Not just the cases of lethal games like ‘Blue Whale, Internet has toppled life in many ways and continues to do so creating a plethora of mental diseases, some, where psychiatrists are yet to find any cure.

An endless buffet of cat videos, bingeable TV, and celebrity Instagrams. And it may also be slowly driving you to the brink of insanity. Some of these disorders are new versions of old afflictions retooled for the mobile broadband age, while others are wholly new creatures. Don’t be surprised if you’ve felt a tinge of at least one or two of them.

Phantom Ringing Syndrome

 

What is it: When your brain alludes you into thinking your phone is buzzing in your pocket. 70 percent of people who self-categorize as heavy mobile users have reported experiencing phantom buzzing in their pocket. It’s all thanks to misplaced response mechanisms in our brains.

Nomophobia or no-mobile phobia

 

The anxiety that arises for not getting to use mobile. The term “Nomophobia” is an abbreviation of “no-mobile phobia.” Nomophobia is the marked increase in anxiety some people feel when they are separated from their phones. While phone addiction may sound like a petty #FirstWorldProblem, the disorder can have very real negative effects on people’s lives

Cybersickness

 

This is the opposite of Nomophobia. The disorientation and dizziness some people feel when interacting with certain digital environments. It provided the most recent high-profile example of cybersickness. This dizziness and nausea resulting from a virtual environment has been dubbed cybersickness

 

Depression caused by social interactions and their posts and the deficiency of such events in one’s life, on Facebook.Humans are social creatures. So you might think that the increased communication facilitated by social media would make us all happier and more content. In fact, just the opposite appears to be true.

Online Gaming Addiction

An unhealthy need to access online multiplayer games. According to a 2010 study funded by the South Korean government, about 8 percent of the population between the ages of 9 and 39 suffer from either Internet or online gaming addiction.