Excessive use of mobile phones affects children’s psyche, experts say

Children go to sleep with mobile phones, wake up, eat, play and study with them, which has led to the increase in the number of children with mental disorders, peer violence, obesity and digital dementia, experts warn. — Dreamstime/TNS

ZAGREB: Excessive use of mobile phones causes addiction and affects children's psyche. Children go to sleep with mobile phones, wake up, eat, play and study with them, which has led to the increase in the number of children with mental disorders, peer violence, obesity and digital dementia, experts warn.

"Numerous studies in the world and in Croatia indicate an increase in the risk to mental health, especially at an adolescent age, but this is increasingly moving down to a younger age.