Rehab for text addicts

[zakur]

U need us :) Clinic helps switch off text addicts (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,7481647%255E401,00.html)

A BRITISH rehabilitation clinic to the rich and famous is treating patients addicted to sending text messages.

The Priory, an upmarket South West London clinic is best known for helping showbiz identities dry out from drugs or alcohol. But a rising number of its patients are seeking help because they can't keep their hands off their mobile telephones.

Once viewed as a habit that at worst irritates teenagers' parents, the mobile phone phenomenon has been officially deemed a full-blown addiction, with dozens being treated for compulsive communicating.

[Bikewer]

To judge from the sheer numbers of follks you see walking around with cell phones virtually screwed into thier heads, compulsive communicating in general would be a problem.

Being in law enforcement, one of our "alert" signs was always someone walking around, gesticulating wildly, and talking to themselves. With some assurance, you could say..."looney!"

Not anymore...you have to look for the little microphone first.