People use their smartphones for everything these days from taking photos to watching movies. As I sat in a coffee shop by the window I watched mobile phone carriers whizzing past on the busy New York City streets.

I don’t mean like brain cancer from cell phone radiation.  I mean beforehand, before someone even got the phone and built it into their life.  What if people already had health problems and their phones  were covering them up?

I’m not a doctor, but even so, instead of looking for zebras I thought I’d look for horses.  That is to say, I’m picking out more common causes for these potential health problems.

Ever said this?: “My phone is my brain, if I lose it I lose everything.”
Potential Health Problem: Memory Loss
Potential Cause: Lack Of Sleep

Sleep allows the brain to recharge it’s energy (like a cell phone) and shift short term memories to parts of the brain that deal with long term memories. Without enough sleep you can lose those memories.  Sleep deprivation is so common and we overlook it as a cause of some of our problems functioning.

Ever said this?: “I HAVE to know what’s going on!”
Potential Health Problem: Twitter and or Facebook Addiction
Potential Cause: Anxiety

Sometimes there’s an expectation for us to always be in the loop, to always have something to do with your hands etc. It’s a feeling humans find intolerable and without realizing it we can go out of our way to feel anything else but that.  Anxiety take work to treat if you have a lot of it but the first step is admitting you have a problem.

Can you think of any other issues our smartphone usage may be covering up?