Cell phone addiction has become a modern evil.

Saturday on Europe 1, Doctor Michael Stora, psychoanalyst and founder of the Observatory of digital worlds and human sciences mentioned this problem.

If he recognizes the facilities that the smartphone can bring to everyday life, he calls for not forgetting the real and the physical links.

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Are we addicted to our cell phones?

The World Mobile Free Day takes place on Sunday, an opportunity to question our dependence on digital technology and its impact on the environment.

Doctor Michael Stora, psychoanalyst and founder of the Observatory of digital worlds and human sciences, believes on Europe 1 that we must be careful about our consumption of screens.

“It's very dangerous when our cell phone becomes some kind of interactive prozac, an anti-depressant,” he says.

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Michael Stora does not reject the telephone on principle.

He even finds many advantages in it: "At the time of confinement, luckily we had the internet to stay connected," he recalls.

However, he believes that the telephone tends to be a "wireless security blanket", an object which allows "to alleviate feelings of unease".

According to him, "the issue of dependence is still present even if it has never been validated by major psychiatric bodies like the WHO".

"We must not sink into a world of images"

Michael Stora thus pleads for "a return to values ​​which remind us that we are in real contact with others".

According to him, it is when we lose sight of this that "the laptop becomes a kind of palliative, a prosthesis".

“The visual is not the most empathetic sensoriality. We must not sink into a world of images,” he warns.

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And these considerations are not only valid for children since "

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studies

show that it is the 35-49 year olds who are the most connected".

The psychoanalyst also warns against social networks which in an economy of attention can lead to "depression, a feeling of worthlessness" or suffering in adolescents who spend too much time there.