When You Suffer From Social Media Anxiety Disorder

What do you know about Social Media Anxiety Disorder(SMAD)? Are you suffering from it? When you go to bed at night and think about the day you past posting photos, comments, likes etc. on social media like facebook, twitter, instagram etc.and when you become anxious of the posts thinking whether the posts were right or wrong, you are suffering from Social Media Anxiety Disorder maybe.

Be relaxed. No, you are not alone. You are the one of more than 2 billion people on the Internet around the world. Just think that 100 trillion emails are sent each year and most of which are considered as spam. This statistics has been taken from an article posted on Huffingtonpost.com 4 years ago. Then think what it the present condition today.

Now the question is, how could we know that we have got SMAD? Julie Spira, an Author, CEO of Cyber-Dating Expert and a Media Personality is giving the following answers in the article posted on Huffingtonpost.com:

1. You might have SMAD when you keep your cell phone 24 hours a day and 7 days a week with you.

2. You might have SMAD when you send a Tweet and become anxious not getting any reply.

3. When you all keep yourselves busy at texting at dining table not talking with one another, you might have SMAD.

4. After posting a photo on any of the social media if you do not get likes or share which you expected and become anxious, you might have SMAD.

5. When you find tour followers or friends have gone down and be upset, you are suffering from SMAD may be.

If you think that the above mentioned symptoms are present in you, take the following advice as remedy:

1. Take a deep breath in the fresh air.

2. Turn off your computer and keep the smartphone away.

3. Walk a while.

4. Go to sleep forgetting your activities on social media.

We live in the present world which is divided into two parts - Virtual and Real. Now we seek worldwide popularity all the time. We want that everybody would like us and everybody would appreciate us. When we judge ourselves and live in virtual world leaving real world, we suffer from many disorders like Social Media Anxiety Disorder. The remedy is in our hand.