Do you spend more than an hour with the smartphone? Perhaps you suffer from depression

If you spend more than an hour a day with your smartphone, whether in conversation, games or surfing the Internet, you may suffer from depression, according to US scientists, quoted by Vesti.bg. Checking your phone habits is an easy way to determine if someone is optimistic or suppressed.

The longer he spends with his phone, no matter what he does with him, the more likely he is in depression.

The depressed average devote their smartphone to 68 minutes and the undepressed - about 17 minutes.

Tracking the movement of people with the GPS on their phone can also serve to reveal their mental state.

If they spend most of their time at home or walk in a small number of places, this is also associated with depression and irregular schedule, such as the work of unusual shifts.

On average one-tenth of people suffer from depression. Phones can help to find the problem quickly.

When they play with the phone, people avoid thinking about problems, difficult relationships or painful feelings. This is the avoidance behavior that is typical of depression, "said study director David Mor of the Northwestern University.

Based on phone data, scientists have found people with depression with 87 percent accuracy. This method proved to be more reliable than standard questions.

For the study, scientists have tracked two weeks for 20 women and eight men who are at risk of depression. Their average age was 29 years.