According to research on cell phone addiction, addiction danger signs included running up huge bills and having irrational reactions to being without a phone if you forgot or lost your mobile.
Coping with Cell Phone Addiction – Psych Central
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Probably why we have addiction specialists to assist in diagnosis and treatment. Denial, as they say, ain’t a river in Africa.
I imagine that the hard part is refining what’s “irrational”. Irrational behavior is perfectly rational to the irrational.