International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Am i out of my mobile network? a case of nomophobia

  • Author:
  • Hemanta Dutta, Soumik Sengupta
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 151 to 156

*MBBS, M.D (Psychiatry), Senior resident, Department of Psychiatry, LGB regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam, India

**MBBS, M.D (Psychiatry) Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, LGB regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam, India

Online published on 4 March, 2016.

Abstract

We are getting more reliant on all the developing current innovations in the field of technology. Role of cellular telephones in our regular life is known to all. However, Nomophobia or no mobile phone phobia is a fresher terminology in the psychiatric practice. Patients seeking psychiatric help for this peculiar type of phobia are not usually observed. Here we are depicting a case of Nomophobia who attended to our Out Patient Department for treatment.

Keywords

Psychology, Nomophobia, Anxiety, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual