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Mental health clinic treats children for cellphone addiction

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Not like we haven’t seen individuals diagnosed with cellphone addiction before, but two kids in Spain were so badly obsessed with their mobiles that they weaseled money from relatives to buy more airtime, began to fail classes and eventually wound up in a mental health clinic. The kids, aged 12 and 13, were reportedly spending around six hours per day talking, texting or playing games, presumably making them the perfect candidates for Sprint’s Simply Everything plan. All jesting aside, doctors in the institution suggest that it could take a full year to wean them off of the “drug,” as they each have become practically incapable of living a “normal” life without constantly interfacing their their handsets. Ai caramba.

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Original post by Darren Murph

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