Mobile phones lead to mental problems

Sir, – I take my hat off to the Perthshire school that has banned pupils using mobile phones in school (“Perthshire school calls time on phones”, Courier, September 5).

I wish that more educational institutions would follow the sensible decision taken by the headmistress.

It surely isn’t just this one school where pupils are not concentrating on their education?

Wednesday’s Courier also featured a blind woman scared to go out in case she is knocked over by pedestrians lost in their phones (“Blind pensioner fears going out after collisions with mobile phone users”).

People too busy playing with their electronic toy are a danger to blind people, because they do not look where they are going and can cause an accident to an innocent person who – because of an affliction – may have either impaired sight or none at all.

These people are trying to live as normal life as possible – not easy when you consider all the other obstacles blind people have to face. I also think this obsession with the mobile phone is responsible for the huge rise in mental problems with young people.

They get on a bus and this thing is in their hand, they hardly have time to sit down before their fingers are all over it.

When we were young we wouldn’t have known what someone was talking about if they mentioned mental health.

Is it possible that too much worrying about what someone is saying about you on social media is responsible? June Reid. 12 Findhorn Street, Dundee.

Picture: Kris Miller. Blind pensioner Catherine Rowe says she is afraid to go out as people focused on their mobile phones keep walking into her. A correspondent agrees with her position.