Internet, mobile phones 'sabotaging sleep'
Pastor Dale Morgan
Internet, mobile phones 'sabotaging sleep'*
August 13, 2007 01:42pm
Article from: AAP
THE fast pace of modern life with all its technological trappings is
depriving people of sleep, a leading sleep expert warns.
Excessive mobile phone and internet usage throughout the night means
people are getting less sleep, clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller has
told the ABC's Four Corners program.
More than a million Australians suffer from insomnia or other sleep
disorders, estimated to cost the community over $10 billion.
Up to 35 per cent of children have some type of sleep problem.
Mr Fuller has surveyed tens of thousands of adolescents about their
lifestyles and sleeping habits.
"I think we live in a society that doesn't value sleep,'' he said.
"We live in a society that basically has this idea of you're accessible
and alert and contactable 24 hours a day. And that's certainly a myth
for young people and their friends.''
Mr Fuller suggests separating electronics from bedrooms.
'' ... So computers, televisions, mobile phones, are all really
sabotaging sleep,'' he said.