Teens face mobile stress

Mobile phones are a scourge, damaging teenagers who believe that they must always be reachable and who are kept awake by SMS signals through the night. That's the view of Swedish doctors who have warned that increasing numbers of teenagers are suffering from insomnia caused by their mobiles, reports The Local, Sweden's News in English.

"This is a time bomb for burn-out among youngsters," said Ulla Palenius, a doctor at Karlstad's upper schools, to the local paper Nya Wermlands-Tidningen.

"The fear of not being in the loop or of missing something is huge," she said.

She is meeting more, and younger, pupils who are suffering from sleeplessness and concentration difficulties."

Relates studies:

-- Students lack sleep (Japanese study)

-- Mobile phones and video games 'are depriving children of sleep' (Belgian study)

-- SMS causes poor sleep (Belgian study)

-- Children text at night instead of sleeping (Australian study)

emily | 2:01 PM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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