Bengaluru: Good cook, Abhishek often prepares a party for his family and has never missed the opportunity to enjoy a cricket game with friends in Jayanagar.
But it’s all in the past.
Too often now, short techie sleeps, rarely interact with family and even less with friends.
Most of the time is spent on the internet, his new love.
Friends and family said the 25-year-old child was a man who truly changed after work from the norms of the house kicking curb.
He is not the only one.
The work of the home routine has caused a significant surge in the case of addicted to the OTT platform among professionals in Bengaluru.
Close (service for technology use) in Nimhans in Bengaluru, which handles cases related to technology addiction, confirm the surge in young professionals who seek help from their specialists to kick Bingewelching habits.
“We see the increase in the number of patients who seek help to get out of TV shows on the Internet in recent months,” said Dr.
Manoj Kumar Sharma, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Clinic Coordinator.
“This phenomenon rotates after the locking is worn and working from home to the norm.” Non-stop seeing worries Dr Sharma said keep watching the show for more than 120 minutes was a problem, but most people did not realize it because they were engrossed in the show.
“Watch three or four endless episodes, without physical activity or even out of the chair, is a sign of consumption more than consumption that can cause addiction,” Dr Sharma said.
“Those affected mostly are young successful professionals, who during locking and work from home looking for pleasure on TV shows like that.” The specialist in the shut only saw a handful of patients like that in pre-covid, but now see more than 25 patients.
Most of the social and game media addicts, while 12 became online TV shows.
Apart from OTT, pornographic addiction also rises.
George, a 26-year-old stock market specialist, recently reached for help because he could not refuse to watch pornographic films for four hours every day, while the 21-year-old college fainted Mukesh needed a minimum of 45 minutes of porn bondage every day.
“Previously we would see two cases in six months but now we have two or three cases such as a month,” Dr Sharma said, linking addiction to lifestyle changes due to a pandemic.
Symptoms and patients the most in seeking therapy for excessive OTT performances and pornographic consumption complains of eye tension, sleep problems, reduced relationships with friends and family, and the inability to kick the habit of watching despite some efforts.
“Our care involves a step-by-step process.
The patient is first advised to rest after 30 or 40 minutes of the show and then gradually reduce the time spent on the screen,” Dr Sharma said.
He and his team compiled a sleep cycle, in addition to urging patients to be involved in other physical activities to kill boredom and loneliness, which mainly encouraged them to internet shows and porn sites.
Importantly, specialists at close advise patients to ‘kick technology from the bed’ which means keeping the gadget from the bed.
(The patient’s name changes to protect the identity)