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Why Technology Is Ruining Our Mental Health

Joanne Black - 13 June 2019

Do you really need to sleep with your phone?
 
Call or text me anytime. You won’t disturb me. My phone and smartwatch are turned off when I’m sleeping. They’re nowhere near me. They’re in the kitchen charging. There’s nothing so urgent in my business that my sleep needs to be disturbed. We still have a landline, just in case our kids or grandkids need to reach us. I hope there’s never an emergency necessitating a middle-of-the-night call.
Bottom line: I need sleep to be a good salesperson, and to be a healthy human being. So, I’m not letting technology rob me of my slumber. But I might be in the minority.
We’ve become so addicted to our phones, that we can’t function without them. Accidents happen because we’re texting while driving. Walk down any street in any city, and everyone’s looking down at their phones. Or, they’re walking with their wireless earbuds in,

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