Hearing false ringtone, it is Ringxiety

NI Wire

New Delhi

Sat, 22 Sep 2007: 

Sep 22: Johnny often hear the ring tones of his mobile phone while he is in the deep sleep, when he looks his mobile, there is no such phone calls or sms alertn his phone.

If you are also facing this sort of ghostly ring tone, Beware! It might be the symptoms of ‘Ringxiety’.

Psychiatrists have revealed that an increasing number of Indians are suffering from ringxiety. The condition is more critical in the case of heavy cell phone users as against moderate users, psychiatrists reported.

David Laramine, the research scholar from David Laramie from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles has found in a study conducted over a vast group of 18 to 26 years old mobile users in united States that 67% of the people suffering from this experience spent more minutes and more money, sent more text message and showed higher levels of impulsive behaviour.

The study also revealed that who rely on text messaging to be in touch with their contacts face higher level of loneliness and social anxiety. This problem is increasing in Japan.

Ringxiety is a condition wherein users imagine their phone to be ringing or vibrating when actually no such thing is happening.

Though there is no ample study on the incidence of 'ringxiety' in the country but the doctors say that at least 25 percent of all mobile phone users might be the sufferer of hearing those 'virtual' rings.

According to psychiatrist, "Frequent mobile users are always anxious.” “They behave altered, wait for the phone for the long time, try to reduce the waiting period and spent more time on talking and messaging, expert says.

It is estimated that there might be more ‘ringxiety’ survivals in India as the usage of mobile phone is increasing very rapidly. More than 200 million mobile phone users are there in India while six million new users are being added to the list each month. Thus the numbers of ringxiety survivals might be three to four times by 2012 as against the present time.

The mobile users loss a real time communication with their family and self and engaged in text messaging that detaches them from the family and they undergo the anxiety. The survivals prefer text messaging for communication, as they believe to get emotional colouring of people-to-people but they losses the real communication skill.

The massive mobile users are reportedly being the patients of cardio-vascular and neurological disorder as well, the research concludes. But on the other hand some psychiatrists deny the linkage of increased anxiety and excessive use of mobile phones, even though they are agree with this fact that ‘being accessible all the time isn't always a good idea’.