Teen Internet Addiction: Is It Real?

Teen Help for Internet Addiction
Cell-phone obsession

Hooked-on social media or video games?

Is your teen consumed by their digital life?
Hooked on gaming?

Are they spending too much time alone and isolating themselves? Have their grades started to drop? Becoming withdrawn, and even depressed?

According to a survey, even teens are worried they spend too much time on screens and fear they are addicted.

When used excessively, technology can affect the emotional and physical wellness of young people of many young people.

Symptoms of internet addiction:

-An obsession with being online
-Frustration, anxiety, and irritability when not able to get online.
-Abandoning friends or hobbies in order to stay digitally connected.
-Continuing to spend time online even after negative repercussions (such as failing grades, deteriorating relationships, and even health issues).

How can we help?

Parent Universal Resource Experts has been educating parents since 2001 on locating quality and safe teen help for your family's individual needs. 

Have you exhausted your local resources?

Have you tried:

-Phone contracts?
-Removing their devices?
-Local therapy?
-Digital detox plans?

But find your teen still falling back into their old obsessive patterns?

It  didn’t take 4-6 weeks to get to where they are, it’s not going to take that to recover.

Residential therapy outside of the home and even peer and family influences, that can give you healthier long-lasting digital and wellness social skills.

Contact us today at helpyourteens.com and find out if your teen is ready for the next step to take back their life by disconnecting to reconnect with a healthy digital life. 

Afterall, technology is a wonderful tool, especially when we learn to use it in responsibility.

This can help them There are excellent choices that help re-focus your teen’s device distraction, back to a well-balanced life full of happiness and centeredness.



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