{"id":3515,"date":"2021-11-01T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/text-anxiety-why-too-many-messages-make-us-want-to-throw-our-phones-at-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:49:33","slug":"text-anxiety-why-too-many-messages-make-us-want-to-throw-our-phones-at-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/text-anxiety-why-too-many-messages-make-us-want-to-throw-our-phones-at-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Text anxiety: why too many messages make us want to throw our phones at the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

We now face as many as 2,167 messages a day from multiple apps. No wonder it sometimes all gets too much<\/p>\n

When Senait Lara, a 28-year-old video producer in Los Angeles, was confronted by her friends about her lack of communication in their group chat, the accusations were as follows: she only caught up every few days; when she did, it was barely an interaction \u2013 Lara spent time \u201chearting\u201d messages instead of responding with words; and sometimes she would never respond at all. <\/strong>Lara did not deny it. She knew she sometimes preferred to throw her phone in a corner and completely avoid it rather than deal with the onslaught of requests.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until Lara addressed her behaviour in therapy that she realized she felt anxious from texting because of her tendency to please those around her. As her therapist described, people-pleasers are less likely to have boundaries around communication, which smartphones barely provide. \u201cI never understood why I would be so difficult to communicate with, but then I realized it was all online,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\nWe now face as many as 2,167 messages a day from multiple apps. No wonder it sometimes all gets too much
\nWhen Senait Lara, a 28-year-old video producer in Los Angeles, was confronted by her friends about her lack of communication in their group chat, the accusations were as follows: she only caught up every few days; when she did, it was barely an interaction \u2013 Lara spent time \u201chearting\u201d messages instead of responding with words; and sometimes she would never respond at all. Lara did not deny it. She knew she sometimes preferred to throw her phone in a corner and completely avoid it rather than deal with the onslaught of requests.
\nIt wasn\u2019t until Lara addressed her behaviour in therapy that she realized she felt anxious from texting because of her tendency to please those around her. As her therapist described, people-pleasers are less likely to have boundaries around communication, which smartphones barely provide. \u201cI never understood why I would be so difficult to communicate with, but then I realized it was all online,\u201d she said. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We now face as many as 2,167 messages a day from multiple apps. No wonder it sometimes all gets too much When Senait Lara, a 28-year-old video producer in Los Angeles, was confronted by her friends about her lack of communication in their group chat, the accusations were as follows: she only caught up every …<\/p>\n

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