We live in the digital world, surrounded by technology devices, social media platforms and several applications that claim to make our lives easier.
Not only has advances such as helping us stay connected with the people we love, but also have made us more efficient and effective.

However, it all comes at a price.
Even something ordinary like ‘sms’ can cause a lot of stress and anxiety to people.
In the past, research has highlighted how SMS can be a daily source of anxiety for many people.
In the research conducted by Viber, it was found that 1 out of 5 people struggled to compete with messaging responses and almost 1 in 6 ignore all messages because they felt overwhelmed.
This study emphasizes evolution to send text messages, how it is not just about ‘yes’ or ‘no’, not a new colorful colorful emoji that tests people interpret skills to a large level.
Anxiety texts are real
Until now, text messages are one of the most common ways of communication.
We are all part of some chat applications, it is a member of several chat groups, and there is a possibility of runaway from it, if you are an active member of the digital world.
Although initially, it might have been fun, interesting, it might have given you a sense of ownership and togetherness, however, a constant message notification, an unlimited number of text exchanges has become tiring.
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Continuous needs to reply, feel obliged to entertain text on families, friends and work groups may have taken serious toll roads in community mental health.
According to the Guardian report, Millennium, those born between the 1980s and in the mid-1990s, “who feel very overloaded”, are being called “Burnout Generation”.
Because it was raised in the world of technology, they could not help but felt overwhelmed by information and everything that social media had an offer.
What is the implication?
Texting might have helped us stay connected with friends and family, but one was forced to wonder if it was very valuable.
The need to always be available, the obligation to be responsive and fear called out is what causes text anxiety.
This in turn makes chat people avoid, pampering themselves in delayed responses, but again afraid of being called out also what causes anxiety.
Why does SMS make you anxious in the first place?
Since the advent of digital devices facilitated text messages, certain levels of anxiety have occurred in people.
Whether it involves responding to the text of your boss, or who keeps waiting with a lover, anxiety just goes up.
Pandemic doesn’t seem to have helped either.
The digital platform is the only media for us to communicate with the outside world, and text messages become a real deal.
Social overload must be many new people for these extraordinary emotions or those who have suffered anxiety.
Given that text messages demand certain urgency, a closeness to respond, which makes people even worried.
If you feel ‘mandatory’ to respond?
When it comes to work or family or even your friends, you feel most often the need for ‘replies’.
Even though you are not in the country thinking right, busy or having a previous commitment, you only sometimes can’t ignore the text of someone you know.
But is there a reason why you should feel obliged to respond, or should you even feel the need to have a reason not to text immediately.
Well, the answer lies in you.
Prioritizing your mental well-being is what is most important.
Because feeling sorry, guilty just disturb the peace of your mind, so that anxiety and a lot of stress.
Experts believe to turn off your notification, turning yourself off the actual group can help you stay calm.
Take a break from your cellphone, following the natural environment, free of digital influences can help too.
But again, there is fear of loss, Fomo as you are popular will know it as.
This is one big reason behind why entertaining messages they don’t want to check.
Curiosity, anxiety related to losing urgent updates is what makes people.
That being said, someone must find an answer from inside.
Listen to your heart and mind and find ways to tend to mental health.