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7 signs you’re obsessed with your phone

  • Publication Date: Sept 26, 2014
  • Publication: Parents Canada

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It was a sad day when I realized my cell phone was interfering with my life. I was so busy efficiently multitasking online I failed to realize how much energy was being spent disconnecting from everything and everyone.

Sure I used it for work but looking back, it enabled me to work all the time. I barely noticed I was living in an anxious, scatterbrained state and only hearing half conversations. My family, however, let me know they were discontent – more than once.

Taking a good, hard look at my habits made for an irrefutable discovery, one which I could no longer deny: I was having a subconscious love affair with my phone.

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