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Alcoholics have support groups to help them cope with their addiction.<\/p>\n

Same for those who abuse drugs and those who gamble impulsively. A member of my family belongs to a widows\/widowers group that offers friendship and fellowship to those who’ve lost spouses.<\/p>\n

Is there anything for those who are addicted to cell phones?<\/p>\n

Probably not. I think I need counseling, however.<\/p>\n

I did something I usually don’t do: I left my cell phone at home this afternoon while I worked at one of my four part-time jobs.<\/p>\n

It usually is clipped to my belt. I reach for it constantly. I don’t pull it out and look at it all day long, although I spend my share of time looking at news apps and monitor the traffic on my blog, High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have it all day. I was going nuts.<\/p>\n

My closest friends and family members know about my love-hate relationship with cell phones. I hate hearing them go off, I hate being distracted by individuals blabbing their big mouths on cell phone conversations, and I hate seeing people talking on the thing while they’re driving their vehicles along public streets; we have a law against that in Amarillo, you know.<\/p>\n

My first cell phone was of the flip variety. It was small. It didn’t work too well. My wife and I had identical phones. Hers didn’t work well, either.<\/p>\n

I had declared my intention to be the last man on Earth with a cell phone. I declared victory in that quest some years back, then got the phone.<\/p>\n

We eventually graduated, thanks to some cajoling from one of our sons, to a “smart phone.” It’s a fancy little gizmo. I use only a fraction of the apps on it. For all I know, I could launch a rocket to Mars with the thing.<\/p>\n

I use my smart phone to make and receive phone calls, text<\/em> messages (to which I usually respond\u00a0in no more than six words), check the weather app, check a couple of the news apps and — of course —\u00a0look at my blog traffic.<\/p>\n

But today, I went all day without doing any of that. I went into a form of cell phone withdrawal about halfway through my work shift. I didn’t break out into cold sweat, or start shaking, or develop a craving for chocolate. As the day wore on, I realized more and more how much I missed the thing. It’s become like a friend.<\/p>\n

But …<\/p>\n

Enough, already!<\/p>\n

I’m prepared to go through an intervention.<\/p>\n

OK, I’ll start: My name is John and I am a cell phone-holic.<\/p>\n\n

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Alcoholics have support groups to help them cope with their addiction. Same for those who abuse drugs and those who gamble impulsively. A member of my family belongs to a widows\/widowers group that offers friendship and fellowship to those who’ve lost spouses. Is there anything for those who are addicted to cell phones? Probably not. … Continue reading Is there a cure for cell phone addiction?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[245,282,898,1843,2122,3181],"class_list":["post-9726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-alcoholics-anonymous","tag-amarillo-cell-phone-ban","tag-cell-phones","tag-gamblers-anonymous","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-narcotics-anonymous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}