What Is Your Compulsion to Reach for Your Phone?

"I didn't have any aim for my phone. I went to it," says the author of a new book on compulsive behaviour. "Once you reach that o c d level, once you're reflexively reaching for your phone and not really enjoying the process of being on there, that means that you're obsessive", he adds. 'It's exactly like drug sekin behavior, right? You know, unlike nutrition, where we actually do need to injest nutrients every once in a while in order to keep living, we don't need to use drugs in order to survive'

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