Fatigue from the screen: let's safeguard ourselves from technology

Article to read (knowingly on the computer)

If everyday life is already away from green spaces, the body hardly recognizes the environment and has to adapt to a series of parameters that have become habit, but that in fact do not belong to what lives there. Think for a moment of the idea of walking not only with shoes that close the possibilities to the fingers, but on a surface that is always smooth, like that of asphalt. The adaptive capacity of the movement is little stimulated and people get lazy, wrong postures are predicted. One feels less alive.

Have you ever tried to put yourself in front of the computer when the body would require more? For example, in the very early hours of the morning. We are not talking only of a postural forcing, but also of an overload of stimuli that all of a sudden arrive. A window opens, immediately another pop up, and again another voice that calls us elsewhere, like the sirens of Ulysses.

Face to face with screen fatigue

They call it screen fatigue and it is ironic that you are talking about it through an article that, if read, will be read by the web. Then I try to make it a constructive minimum. Be with me.

First, do not go ahead in reading if we do not first straighten our backs and take a good inhalation with all the possibility of our chest. Then throw out. Do not look at the screen while exhaling. Throw it out even with a sound. If needed, even from the mouth.

Well, let's go ahead with some useful data regarding the relationship between screen fatigue and sleep-wake rhythm .

Technological fatigue and sleep-wake rhythm

The fatigue from the screen is not that it leads to not sleeping (in some cases this possibility is also true), but the real effect goes directly to pour on the quality of sleep . According to data from the San Raffaele Hospital Sleep Center, around 30% of Italians suffer from insomnia . Let's not be alarmed (because otherwise the diaphragm suffers). Indeed, we take another good breath to remind ourselves that we are alive and sorry if it is little. We see the consequences of a sleep whose quality is low:

Bad memory;
Communication difficulties;
Headache;
Weight gain.

It seems that, if in 2003 the Italians slept an average of 8 hours a night, now the estimate has dropped to just under 7. For those of you who feel called into question, it might be a good idea, rather than not being further alarmed, enter the world of Bach flowers for insomnia, recommended by a good herbalist. Even approaching the world of meditation is a good way to find sleep with the right quality, which is not necessarily the same for everyone; remember that the amount of hours you sleep is a very personal parameter; in the same way, the quality depends on factors that are relevant for some, for others negligible (the presence of a person nearby in the night, the type of mattress, the surrounding environment, considered noises and background sounds, etc.).

300, 000 would be Italians aged 40-50 and adolescents who suffer from chronic fatigue symptoms .

These data are alarming for those who go out into the street when the sun has already set: the mortality rate on the roads has risen in recent years due to drivers' sleep slashes.

If you want to learn more about the subject, we recommend a text "Tired but wired", written by Londoner Dr. Nerina Ramlakahan.

Tonight, after dinner, give up Facebook. If time permits, go for a walk . And if you have a smartphone, leave it at home.