Urban white-collar workers pay attention to information anxiety disorder

Television, telephone, computer, e-mail, mobile phone, Internet, MSN, QQ and other modern communication equipment and means bring convenience to our daily life and work, but also bring us new troubles. A typical example is that when some information around us suddenly disappears, we begin to feel anxious and panic, and even feel dizzy and chest tightness. This phenomenon has a proper term in the field of psychology: information anxiety disorder.

Miss Wang, who works in a foreign company, recently went on vacation, but her mobile phone was accidentally broken. A feeling of anxiety began to haunt her: where can I get back the customer information if I lost it? What if I miss work? Will her boss be angry if she can't get in touch? The more I think about it, the more anxious I am. Before the end of the holiday, Miss Wang Can couldn't wait to get out of the resort, immediately bought a new mobile phone, and called customers one by one to get in touch with everyone.

Mr. Liu, who works in journalism, had similar troubles. The first thing he does when he gets up every morning is to turn on the computer. When the machine starts, he brushes his teeth, washes his face and eats breakfast in a hurry. When he got the news clues, he began to look for relevant information, communicate with editors and write articles. Before going to bed every night, Mr. Liu always feels that there is too much information in his head. Sometimes he really wants to spit out and spit out the junk information. This situation sometimes makes him feel dizzy, chest tightness and impatience.

Manager Qin, who is engaged in consulting industry, browses a lot of web pages every day to get information, and then contacts different customers to discuss various cooperation matters. He never stops meetings, cell phones, phone calls and emails. Not only that, he must also smile when facing customers. When he got home at night, Lao Qin found himself collapsed and fell asleep. He has no energy to communicate with his wife and daughter. Sometimes when he comes back from work, Lao Qin feels that his mind is empty and even resigns, but when the new working day begins, Lao Qin still has to continue the same job.

Mr. Li, MD, believes that in today's information age, information anxiety disorder is a fashion disease. Most of the patients are white-collar, with high academic qualifications and great work pressure. Many people think that they always live in the forefront of information, so it is necessary for them to update the latest information and digest it at any time, because only in this way can they be invincible in the job competition.

Information bombing is beyond endurance.

Dr. Li said that the way white-collar workers constantly force themselves to update their knowledge and information reserves often makes it difficult for people to adapt to the storage warehouse of their brains. When new information comes in, the brain that already contains a lot of information often has no time to make room for new information, or does not adapt to the arrival of new information.

Experts say that when external information is input into the brain, the human brain has a high-level center for synthesis, analysis and judgment, and carries out some information processing. If a person receives a lot of complicated information in a short time, it is too late to decompose and digest it, which is beyond the body's endurance, and it will cause a series of self-compulsion and tension. This kind of emotion is very close to the symptoms of anxiety in psychiatry, so this situation caused by excessive contact with work information is called information anxiety by some people. Epidemiological studies show that about 5% of the urban population will suffer from anxiety. Professionally, journalists, advertisers, network practitioners and other people who have been engaged in psychological stress for a long time are high-risk groups of information anxiety. Some mental problems with a strong sense of the times, such as network syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder of mobile phones, are actually an anxious psychological reaction caused by excessive information and a manifestation of information anxiety.

Optical information shock can't solve the problem.

Isolation from information sources is called shock therapy for this anxiety disorder, such as taking a vacation. However, after trying, Manager Qin felt that this method of eliminating information contact could not solve the problem at all, but might aggravate the condition. Because a lot of information will not stop because of its own shock, and these information resources are as important as air and water for work. Mr. Qin feels that at the same time of information shock, sometimes the spirit also enters a state of shock, but he feels anxious and panic, and can't really rest and adjust. And some psychologists also believe that in order to get rid of the torture of a lot of information, we should mainly pay attention to the comprehensive adjustment of body and mind.

Some experienced people think that it is much more effective to fully understand the information around them in a planned and regular way and digest new knowledge and information in a controlled way, so as to summarize, classify and remember, than to avoid information and shock blindly; On the other hand, paying attention to the alternation of tension and relaxation in life and work will not make the brain fall into a state of excessive fatigue, which is of great help to prevent and improve information anxiety.

The reporter learned that according to the current medical situation, information anxiety disorder is similar to anxiety symptoms in psychiatry, so its diagnosis and treatment are mainly based on traditional methods of treating anxiety disorder, except for patients who are unwell and need medical treatment, and more are mainly based on psychological counseling.

Classification of disease severity

Although information anxiety disorder is not a disease in the traditional sense, due to the rising incidence in recent years, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to it, and relevant researchers also divide the disease into four levels according to its symptoms:

Level 1: Information anxiety. When there is no information input, they will stare blankly at a wall, a piece of paper or even their own palms. Maybe they are thinking about the complicated steps of a game at this time. At this time, the patient's communication ability is weakened, the pulse is increased, and the facial muscles are red.

The second level: fear of information. Some patients will panic when they have not received information for more than 24 hours. At this time, the patient often pricks up his ears and is on alert. A signal that suddenly flashes on the mobile phone, a gossip news, will make him feel stimulated by information. At this time, his mood is prone to dramatic changes.

The third level: information depression. When he doesn't get the corresponding information stimulation, or he is disappointed with the quality of the information he gets, the patient sometimes wants a larger dose of stimulation. Without this information source, patients will show intense emotional confrontation, become depressed, and have gastrointestinal problems such as diarrhea due to the disorder of life rules. At this time, patients can easily isolate themselves.

The fourth level: information mania. Receiving dozens or even hundreds of phone calls and messages every day makes the patient subconsciously have a heroic mentality, feeling that no one around him is his opponent, which is a bit arrogant to people, and this self-awareness is easy to hit the rocks in the real world. It caused him to suddenly feel sad because of his talent, suddenly excited because of the heroic plot, and suddenly felt extremely gloomy after his failure.

Three suggestions on self-discipline

According to medical experts, short-term anxiety is as normal as a cold, which does not hinder the body, mind, life and work much, while long-term anxiety may make people look haggard, emaciated and even induce diseases. The following are three self-regulation suggestions provided by experts for information anxiety.

First, get into the habit of reading newspapers. Although the network can get a lot of information quickly, it takes a process to filter these massive information to get the really needed resources, but some people may have the mentality of shooting, and they will read all the information and let it enter their minds. So once you lose your information source, you will feel very uncomfortable. Traditional newspapers may be able to avoid this problem. Through the screening of newspaper editors, reading may save a lot of worry, and you can also see the in-depth analysis and comments of related reports.

Second, cultivate a variety of hobbies. Information anxiety may also be people who rely too much on information tools and work hard. They are attached to information sources such as the Internet because they feel some illusory happiness from it, so if they cultivate another hobby, such as listening to music and playing musical instruments, they may shift their excessive dependence on information.

Third, classify and discard. Classifying information well and giving up unnecessary information in time are conducive to brain cleaning. In addition, whether you are off work or on vacation, you should pay attention to adjusting and relaxing your body and mind as thoroughly as possible, telling yourself that rest is to go further, so that you can pay attention to regular maintenance of your body and mind.

self-check

Information anxiety, do you have it?

The following are common symptoms of information anxiety disorder. Compare them and see how much you have:

1, check your mobile phone more than five times an hour, even if you go to the mountains for vacation. I felt deeply lost when I found that no one called or texted.

2. Log in to the email address n times a day and check the email repeatedly.

When you can't surf the internet for some reason, the whole person is extremely anxious and wants to become a superman and fly to outer space to accept the super attraction of the internet.

4, subconsciously log on to boring websites to search for boring pictures, which makes my nose bleed and I like to enjoy this superficial pleasure.

I'm always afraid that I can't keep up with the trend, and I will spend a lot of time collecting some latest popular things. When someone asks you something you don't know, your mood suddenly falls to the bottom.

6. I prefer information to real life and interpersonal communication. There is always a feeling that everything is awake and I am drunk alone.

7. I like to post on BBS and discuss boring gossip with people. If there is no new and interesting information on the internet, people will be depressed and unable to lift their spirits for a long time.

8. Hanging on MSN or QQ for ten hours a day, you can chat with N people at the same time, and you will be anxious when you are idle.

9. I like the feeling of being overwhelmed by information. When playing computer games, I will have a strong sense of satisfaction and continue to extend the game time. But sometimes I feel like a mess in real life.

10, it is often easy to belittle yourself for a while and brag about yourself for a while. Life is more extreme and it is not easy to compromise.