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Nomophobia?
(YouTube / 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuyON5Mm_LQ&feature=em-share_video_user
So, do you get nervous when you are without your phone? I know I do. By the way, new phone cover –
don’t you like it? This is like an extension of me, right here, so I guess for those of you like me, being
away from your phone can cause severe anxiety, even panic attacks. It’s a medical problem called
nomophobia and a recent study found (that) as many as two-thirds of people have it. Doctor Bruce
Hensel has more.
It’s a cell-phone society. We’re tethered to our cell phones like they are an extension of ourselves. But
what happens when your attachment to your phone becomes a problem?
I remember I was crying, I was angry...
For Christiana Hyke, not having her phone provokes extreme anxiety. She has three phones and carries
two phone chargers with her all the time. She even takes her phone with her in the shower. I’ll have it
sitting there on the counter because I’m thinking, what if, you know, President Obama calls, or the Pope.
I don’t know why I do that.
These are the symptoms of nomophobia.
Nomophobia means “no-mobile-phone aphobia.”
Symptoms of nomophobia include panic and anxiety when separated from your phone, having multiple
phones, compulsive checking for messages, battery life, using (a) phone in inappropriate places, (a) phone
activity becoming an issue in relationships, (at) work or (at) school.
For some people who use their phone excessively, we know that the brain is actually responding to the
phone as if it’s a drug.
For Ike, it’s affected her everyday interactions.
Unfortunately, I’ve become so attached to communicating with everybody via my Iphone that I become
less attached to people who are physically in front of me.
She’s part of a nomophobia recovery group. Here she learns how to break her habit.
Make a commitment to not respond for twenty minutes.
We teach them, in treatment, how to self-monitor their behaviors, how to identify when their behaviors
have become excessive, how to use coping skills to manage their urges to use the Internet or their phone.
As opposed to thinking of myself being trapped without my phone, I’m trying to focus on how it can
actually be kind of freeing to not have my phone.
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You know it’s so funny, is just about .. do you remember about ten minutes, ten, fifteen minutes ago, you
looked around the studio during (the) commercial break, and every single person ..was on their phone!
Yeah, I know. You know recently I’ve had to make conscious choices to put it (down) and then walk
away from it ...in a different room ... and go and be like, I’m just disconnecting from that phone for a
while.
I mean, I watch TV now during commercial breaks. I mean, it’s ridiculous, it is completely ridiculous!
Set it down, don’t touch it!
Well, I mean, I use this phone even here on the dusk because this computer that they give me here at the
anchor desk is much slower than this phone. So, I mean, that’s the reason I do it, and plus, I think a lot of
times we just can’t put it down. We’ll be right back.
Vocabulary
00. To get nervous
01. By the way
02. Right here
03. I guess
04. Being away
05. We’re tethered
06. In the shower
07. The pope
08. An issue
09. A recovery group
10. Make a commitment
11. To self-monitor their behaviour
12. Coping skills
13. To manage their urges
14. To be trapped
15. Kind of freeing
16. The commercial break
17. To put it down / to set it down
18. To walk away from it
19. For a while
20. On the dusk
21. The anchor desk
22. We’ll be right back
devenir nerveux
en passant, au fait
ici, exactement ici
je pense
etre éloigné
nous sommes attachés (comme un animal)
sous la douche
le pape
un problème
un groupe de rétablissement
engagez-vous
surveiller soi-même son comportement
des capacités à gérer
contrôler leurs impulsions
se sentir pris au piège
une sorte de libération
la pause publicitaire
le poser
le laisser / s’éloigner
pendant un certain temps
aux informations/actualités du soir (dusk =
crépuscule)
le bureau des présentateurs des JT
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Nomophobia?
(YouTube, 2015)
Exercise: fill in the blanks with the correct words
So, do you g____ nervous when you are without your phone? I know I do. B the w__, new phone cover
(devenez)
(en passant, au fait)
– don’t you like it? This is like an extension of me, r
here, so I g
(ici)
for those of you like me, being
(pense)
a____ from your phone can cause severe anxiety, even panic attacks. It’s a medical problem called
(éloigné)
nomophobia and a recent study found (that) as many as two-thirds of people have it. Doctor Bruce
Hensel has more.
It’s a cell-phone society. We’re t_______ to our cell phones like they are an extension of ourselves. But
(attachés)
what happens when your attachment to your phone becomes a problem?
I remember I was crying, I was angry.
For Christiana Hyke, not having her phone provokes extreme anxiety. She has three phones and carries
two phone chargers with her all the time. She even takes her phone with her __ the s
. I’ll have it
(sous la douche)
sitting there on the counter because I’m thinking, what if, you know, President Obama calls, or the p
.
(le pape)
I don’t know why I do that.
These are the symptoms of nomophobia.
Nomophobia means “no-mobile-phone aphobia.”
Symptoms of nomophobia include panic and anxiety when separated from your phone, having multiple
phones, compulsive checking for messages, battery life, using (a) phone in inappropriate places, (a)
phone activity becoming an i________ in relationships, (at) work or (at) school.
(un problème)
For some people who use their phone excessively, we know that the brain is actually responding to the
phone as if it’s a drug.
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For Ike, it’s affected her everyday interactions.
Unfortunately, I become so attached to communicating with everybody via my Iphone that I become less
attached to people who are physically in front of me.
She’s part of a nomophobia r
group. Here she learns how to break her habit.
(de rétablissement)
Make a c_________________ to not respond for twenty minutes.
(un engagement)
We teach them, in treatment, how to self-monitor their b__________how to identify when their behaviors
(comportement)
have become excessive, how to use c
skills to manage their u_____ to use the Internet or their phone.
(de gérer)
(impulsions)
As opposed to thinking of myself being t_______ without my phone, I’m trying to focus on how it can be
(piégé)
K
of freeing to not have my phone.
(une sorte)
You know it’s so funny, is just about .. do you remember about ten minutes, ten, fifteen minutes ago, you
looked around the studio during (the) c
break, and every single person ..was on their phone!
(la pause publicitaire)
Yeah, I know. You know recently I’ve had to make conscious choices to put it (down) and then walk
away from it ..in a different room .. and go and be like, I’m just disconnecting from that phone f a w .
(pendant un certain temps)
I watch TV now during commercial breaks. I mean, it’s ridiculous, it is completely ridiculous! S___ it d
(posez-le)
don’t touch it!
Well, I mean, I use this phone even here on the dusk because this computer that they give me here at the
anchor desk is much slower than this phone. So, I mean, that’s the reason I do it, and plus, I think a lot of
times we just can’t put it down. We’ll b r b
.
(nous reviendrons de suite)