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Are you nomophobic? Or are you living with one?

A recent study in the UK has revealed that 53% of mobile phone users getanxiety if they run out of battery or have no network coverage, so the scientists involved coined the clever term ‘nomophobia’ (no-mobile-phone-phobia… Get it? ZING!) to describe the desperados who can’t go five minutes without a working phone.

We’ve developed a handy list to help you identify whether you, or anyone you may know, is a nomophobe:

1. They have a sixth sense… For network coverage.

If you know a nomophobe, it’s not unusual to see the following: They are walking pleasantly down the street. All of a sudden, they stop dead in their tracks. They slowly look around. They sniff the air. They look as if they may be having some kind of spiritual connection with nature.

Then fear creeps across their face. They turn to you – slowly, dramatically – and with complete sincerity and impending doom they say: “There’s no network coverage here.”

2. They are constantly jonesing for a cord fix.

“Who has a charger cord? Do have a charger cord? Anybody know where I can get a charger cord? Can I borrow that cord? I swear it’s just for five minutes, I swear. Does that cord fit my phone? Will that slot into my laptop? That’s a damn fine cord, where do I get me one of those? I’ll give you ten bucks for that cord. Okay, 15. JUST GIVE ME THE FREAKING CORD.”

3. They have super-human vision. But only when looking for power outlets.“Who has a charger cord? Do have a charger cord? Anybody know where I can get a charger cord? Can I borrow that cord? I swear it’s just for five minutes, I swear. Does that cord fit my phone? Will that slot into my laptop? That’s a damn fine cord, where do I get me one of those? I’ll give you ten bucks for that cord. Okay, 15. JUST GIVE ME THE FREAKING CORD.”

The nomophobe could be legally blind but still able to spot a power outlet from 50 metres away. They can also walk into a room and know within 0.35 seconds where every powerpoint in the room is located and whether they could fit a charger in there.

4. They have a seventh sense… For battery percentages

They can feel it in the very core of their being. The dread starts to flutter in the pit of their stomach: Their battery is getting low. Someone could offer the nomohobe a thousand bucks to use their phone when it’s below 10% and they’d refuse. And watching a video? DON’T EVEN.

People with this seventh sense also seem to be part of a strange phenomenon in which the amount of times one needs to check one’s phone gets higher as the battery gets lower. It can’t be explained by logic or reason. It’s just an involuntary need. Many nomophobes have likened it to that thing called ‘breathing’.

Nooooooooooooooo!

5. They know more about power-charging technology than they do about themselves.

Phone case charger. Solar-powered charger. Bicycle-powered charger. Sweat-powered charger. The nomophobe can tell you every source of charging power that ever has been and ever will be invented.

The nomophobe knows more about the status of phone-power inventions than they do about their chosen profession. They couldn’t tell you who Hillary Clinton is but… Need to know about that new phone that charges via rain water? Sit down – this will take a while.

6. They have developed stealth phone checking skills.

Not meant to look at your phone on a plane or in the movies? What is this, MEDIEVAL TIMES? The concept of not looking at one’s phone is ridiculous and offensive to the nomophobe.

Thus, they’ve developed some pretty stealth skills so that they may continue to be at one with their love even when ‘rules’ say they can’t be.

A nomophobe can turn around to sneeze and check 2 hours worth of twitter feed. They can write an entire work email while rifling their bag for gum. And never trust a nomophobe who says they need to use the ‘bathroom’. That is code for ‘read an entire news website while on the toilet.’

7. They won’t go anywhere new.

At least not until they’ve done some serious, Russian-spy level digging into the logistics of said ‘new’ place.

When you turn up to a new restaurant with a nomophobe, guaranteed they have already scoped:

a) the powerpoint situation

b) the network coverage

c) what sort of phone and charger every staff member has on hand

And if all else fails, they will have a car-charger in their bag to use in the taxi on the way home, whether the driver likes it or not.

Do you have homophobia?

By ROSIE WATERLAND

Wanna take a quiz?

Go to http://www.nomophobia.com/and take the test! This is also a great web page to deal with your problem.

Btw... I was able to turn off my phone today, and took a nap! I didn't feel so anxious.

First step: FACE IT

For you to understand my life as a nomophobic, you must understand the term. It's called "nomophobia" (short for no-mobile-phone phobia), and psychologists say that it's affecting more and more young people, but the thing is you might have not heard of it before because the majority of people who have this problem are not even aware that they do.

Still, it kind of sounds silly 'oh yeah, just because I use my phone a lot doesn't mean I have an adiction' Some psychologists have proposed adding nomophobia to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is considered  to be the ultimate authority on mental health. Pretty crazy ha?

You know whats even more crazy?  Sixty-five percent, or about two in three people, sleep with or next to their smart phones. (Among college students, it’s even higher).Thirty-four percent admitted to answering their cell phone during intimacy with their partner. (yeah, apparently its more important to answer a text or call than having sex). Another fun fact, one in five people would rather go without shoes for a week than take a break from their phone. (It’s a good way to lose your sole and your soul). Also, more than half never switch off their phone. (That's me, I never turn it off...I’d call that an addiction). A full 66 percent of all adults suffer from “nomophobia.”

A study done by the UK Post Office in 2010 found that about 58 percent of men and 47 percent of women suffer from the phobia, and an additional 9 percent feel stressed when their mobile phones are off. The study sampled 2,163 people. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed cited keeping in touch with friends or family as the main reason that they got anxious when they could not use their mobile phones. The study compared stress levels induced by the average case of nomophobia to be on par with those of “wedding day jitters” and trips to the dentist.

So I mean, don't fight it... I'm pretty sure the majority of us suffer of this problem, and I've made the choice to do something about it, raise awareness, and get myself out of this.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-nomophobia-2014-7#ixzz3HSyavXmh
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/artificial-maturity/201409/nomophobia-rising-trend-in-students