http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/ Engadget Comments for Compulsive e-mailing, texting could be classified as bona fide illness http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
then there are those whose girlfriend is Engadget...]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
Luckily she hasn't figured out where all my purchases get sent! >:->]]>Mar 18th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
Unless there is a chemical dependency, people don't get disorders directly relating to arbitrary things. They get addicted and have a lack of self-control/discipline. There might be other things that are contributing to their addiction, like stress, anxiety, or a real mental disorder, but the actual thing they are addicted addiction ir generally irrelevant...if it wasn't e-mailing or texting it could be video games, or eating, or worse things, like alcohol, or shop lifting for the thrill, etc.]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
I'm not saying this study has any validity, but your comment is quite incorrect.
Think of a jogger's "high", sex, falling in love, eating spicy food... all these things release chemicals. Granted, they are chemicals within us already, but given stories about jogger's who will still run after being told not to a doctor because of an injury, unsafe sex, serial marriages and my personal favorite, eating jalapenos until I my eyes are watering and my nose running (and then the subsequent sh!tting fire)... well, all these would suggest that there is a very fine line between "outside" chemical dependency and "inside" chemical dependency.

FWIW, I think these kind of illnesses are probably just undiagnosed OCD. Obsessive anxiety produces thoughts to contact so-and-so or the person might "miss" something, and then the compulsion is carried out by texting/emailing.

No, I am not a shrink, but I am an OCD'er who stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. ]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 18th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 18th 2008 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/google "happy_penguin" 1080
google "ethana2" 31,700

I win.]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
google "Reader" 362,000,000

I believe I win much much harder.
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bob: 277,000,000

its over 9000
I win. ]]>Mar 18th 2008 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
next they'll say compulsive driving or something is an illness.]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
/me gives carl (and everyone in the world) a prescription for compulsive breathing disorder.]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
On a side note.. Where'd the original picture go?]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/75% of traffic should simply not be happening.]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 18th 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
There, now that I've given the disease a long name and used the world "compulsive" 3 times, my disease will be taken seriously. ]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
But congrats on your prolific internet usage. ^_^]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
Wow... Now that's what I call "overkill." I mean, when you put Bill Gates in a mental institution I can say that you won. But now, en-eh... You're overreacting.]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 18th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
I guess you gotta make that Psych degree do something, making up new illnesses pretty much takes the cake in that respect.]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/Mar 17th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/When do the meetings start?]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/compulsive-e-mailing-texting-could-be-classified-as-bona-fide-i/
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