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Survivors of domestic violence often find it difficult to disconnect from their abusers.
I may sometimes yearn to unplug and smell the roses, but it's difficult to disconnect when I fear that doing so will be considered strange or insulting.
An Ofcom report out this month has revealed the nation's obsession with being online – almost half of the 2,550 people surveyed said they felt lost when they couldn't access the web and a third said they found it difficult to disconnect.
The report, which surveyed 2,050 adults and 500 teenagers, found that more than a third find it difficult to disconnect and almost half said they felt lost when they could not access the internet, rising to 59% of 16- to 24-year-olds.
In a world where we are always connected, it's become increasingly difficult to disconnect.
And a third (34percentt) admitted they find it difficult to disconnect.
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Of course it is difficult to completely disconnect, however, during work hours most professionals check in at certain points throughout the day and for caregivers this would be when the children are napping or engaged in another activity.
But in our constantly connected digital world, it's difficult to find almost anytime to disconnect when we're perpetually subject to the siren song of emails, tweets, likes, texts and other various forms of online updates.
Finding ways to disconnect during nonvacation times may be more realistic, if no less difficult.
And about how capitalism was established on that, allowing us to disconnect ourselves from the natural world to the extent that it's still difficult for some of us to take environmental apocalypse seriously.
"I began to disconnect".
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