so glad you posted about your concerns with the cell phones. i'm also glad you talked to yout t about it. did he offer you any support or coping skills to help you with this? if not, then i'd ask him to do so. it sounds like an obsession/addiction to me. i believe we can get addicted to anything if we get caught up in that cycle. the fact that it has made you physically ill to not heed the obsession sounds like you will need to focus on breaking the addiction. i know at one time i was addicted to online games and i'd waste days just playing them! it controlled my life. i was able to stop this behavior thank goodness by not allowing myself to go online and started filling that time with a load of activity in the home and elsewhere. keeping busy helped me to stay away from the puter. having said that i think your addicition requires some help from your t. i'm sure there are support groups out there too that may focus on other addctions but you could apply their ideas to your cell phone addiction. let us know how you're doing with this and if you need to, please keep posting about this. it takes some power away from the obsession.