It’s common knowledge that technology is only a recent development in our lives.

In these modern times, most of us couldn’t get through 24 hours without using some sort of hi-tech device.

On average Brits spend nine hours a day on their hi-tech gadgets, but we are now wondering if this could affect our overall mental health?

Many people are now wondering if silence is the answer. Can silence benefit your mental well-being and physical health?

You don’t have to be a genius to know that when you get all thoughts out of your head and just relax in silence, it really calms you down from the stress that technology can sometimes put on you.

Mental health experts are now saying that children who spend more than two hours a day at a computer or watching TV are more likely to develop psychological problems and experience loss of personal identification.

Professor Susan Greenfield, promoter of science, has recently written a book that talks about many different things, such as global warming, economic downfalls and how technology is psychologically damaging our youths.

She says: “They are destined to lose an awareness of who and what they are: not someones, or anyones, but nobodies.”

It doesn’t look good for the new generation and for the future existence of the human race.

Maybe this seems a bit far-fetched, but what else are we left to think? Is there any cure for this crazy obsession with technology?

Well, we all know that children won’t be able to relax in silence!

So what can children do to prevent damaging their mental health?

How about going back to playing with the loved past games of the 60s, 70s and 80s?

But would children be able to give up video games and TV programs to play a board game or collect marbles?

Swindon Advertiser: Blob By Chloe Glinn, 15, Farmor’s School