M.S.: Can be. So essentially every waking moment when they're not in school, they are on those devices. Ok so essentially individuals have to realize if technology is or isn't affecting them, for many people it's not, it's just fine. You just need to be aware and then if it is affecting you, you have to be prepared to change your behaviors and here I draw the analogy to addiction and the phases of addiction. If you're on the denial phase, the therapy is not going to work. You're wasting your money if you're in contemplation or pre-contemplation phase, we have some work to do but essentially if you're dealing with any form of hyper arousal and you're in excessive use of iTech, your anxiety, your depression, your insomnia is not going to be helped unless you drastically change your iTech patterns.
Rob: Okay so and what do you tell your patients you identify as a major factor in their symptoms being anxiety, learning disability, insomnia and depression, ADD, autism. What do you tell them they need to do in terms of iTech?
M.S.: Well, depending on what it is. It depends, for example, with gaming; just stop it, hiatus. Many others we've kind of put it in the classification of eating disorders because it is part of our modern world. With eating, you can't for the obese person, you can't say stop eating. The same thing with anorexics and bulimics, you have to learn how to mediate the behavior or one can even say mitigate it. Essentially you have to be very conscious of your behaviors and set your boundaries. So an obvious for somebody with insomnia is no screen device whatsoever two hours before your head touches the pillow because it acts as a stimulant.
Rob: Ok, so how about we got a wrap this it's been going around a really long time. It's been great. What about business? It seems to me I go to a job, I'm told to sit at the computer all day long. I develop anxiety or depression, could this be considered disability that the employer would be accountable for?
M.S.: I don't want to go that far. This is a huge classification of it depends. Is the anxiety due to the pressures of work? Those 5000 emails that you have to respond to immediately? Is it an issue with workload? Is it an issue of iFatigue due to the flash of the screen? Many issues. I think.
Rob: Have you ever been an expert and are people making claims like that?
M.S.: I have not heard of any and that would be something really interesting to watch. Unfortunately I think it would be an area for abuse unless some really nasty stuff comes out about EMS fields and then at that point the world whole world is going to have to change.
Rob: It's hard for me to imagine that if people are spending eight hours a day of their lives and it's rarely that, usually once they start doing it and they start being at home with them and it's not only eight hours. It's hard to imagine that all the stuff you're talking about doesn't imply to work life as well.
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