Ahmedabad: The 181 Abhayam helpline, which used to be introduced to help women and girls in emergency, is getting determined calls from distressed folks pleading to help their kids pop out of smartphones dependancy.
Recently, folks of a 17-year-old boy, a class 12 pupil from the Gota house of town, referred to as up 181 counsellors pleading them to save lots of their son from smartphone dependancy. “The boy had stopped talking to his folks and began dwelling alone for a month. His simplest better half used to be his smartphone. The boy didn't even take bath for around a month and stopped talking to his friends,” mentioned a counsellor of the helpline. “When we approached the boy, we found all the way through the conversation that he used to be fed up together with his folks’ widespread quarrels. To keep his mind clear of the quarrel, the boy had began spending time on smartphone which overdue become his dependancy,” added the counsellor.
The boy shall be given counselling to help him do away with the over the top use of smartphone. On Wednesday also, the helpline got a choice from folks of a 15-year-old class X lady that their daughter is so hooked on the smartphone that she has stopped talking to her folks.
“The lady used to be so hooked on smartphone that her folks needed to make a determined call to the helpline. She used to be skipping her foods and had stopped talking to her folks. On drawing near her, we found that she had no longer been surfing any objectionable sites on phone and had made the smartphone her better half which used to be gifted to her via her grandfather,” mentioned the counsellor who attended the girl at her house in the Bodakdev house of town.
The lady told the counsellor that she prepares for her study at the phone but if she used to be counselled that the true lifestyles which include her folks and friends is also important, she agreed to cut hours at the cellular phone.
Programme coordinator of 181 helpline, Falguni Patel, showed the cases and mentioned that they receive around one such call every week.
Recently, folks of a 17-year-old boy, a class 12 pupil from the Gota house of town, referred to as up 181 counsellors pleading them to save lots of their son from smartphone dependancy. “The boy had stopped talking to his folks and began dwelling alone for a month. His simplest better half used to be his smartphone. The boy didn't even take bath for around a month and stopped talking to his friends,” mentioned a counsellor of the helpline. “When we approached the boy, we found all the way through the conversation that he used to be fed up together with his folks’ widespread quarrels. To keep his mind clear of the quarrel, the boy had began spending time on smartphone which overdue become his dependancy,” added the counsellor.
The boy shall be given counselling to help him do away with the over the top use of smartphone. On Wednesday also, the helpline got a choice from folks of a 15-year-old class X lady that their daughter is so hooked on the smartphone that she has stopped talking to her folks.
“The lady used to be so hooked on smartphone that her folks needed to make a determined call to the helpline. She used to be skipping her foods and had stopped talking to her folks. On drawing near her, we found that she had no longer been surfing any objectionable sites on phone and had made the smartphone her better half which used to be gifted to her via her grandfather,” mentioned the counsellor who attended the girl at her house in the Bodakdev house of town.
The lady told the counsellor that she prepares for her study at the phone but if she used to be counselled that the true lifestyles which include her folks and friends is also important, she agreed to cut hours at the cellular phone.
Programme coordinator of 181 helpline, Falguni Patel, showed the cases and mentioned that they receive around one such call every week.
181 helpline: 'My son hasn't bathed for a month'
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