Technology addiction is an impulse control disorder that involves the obsessive use of mobile devices, the internet or video games, despite negative consequences to the user of the technology. The disorder may also be referred to as digital addiction or internet addiction. The way we live our lives has been fully modified by phones and digital technologies.

Phones and other portable devices have become so prevalent in every day life that without their phones, many individuals will even say they can't survive.

Dependence on their digital devices is something for most people that they can take care of with a bit willpower and by using technology that has been built to help control digital use.

Now, to connect with friends, watch television, do our banking and even get ahead of work, we use the internet.

When it comes to phones and digital devices, the word ''addicted"get thrown around a lot, but the fact is that reliance on technology is not the same as true addiction. But there's a smaller community of individuals who can't take the...