MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 6617 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The first step is to admit the problem… I HAVE AN EMAIL ADDICTION.<br /><br />After the integration of a computer dependent military, I know others may be suffering this same addiction (I had my first computer back in 2000 and learned how to use It in 2003).<br /><br />I check my email 1st thing in the morning and no less than every 3 hours afterwards (even on weekends), I have several email accounts so I would check my military, civilian, small business and personal email account (in that order).<br /><br />For every email I send, I read twice before I send and once after I send it, then anxiously refreshing the page every hour to see if I got a response…<br /><br />It is an incapacitating addiction since I know that it takes much of my time and I could be doing other productive stuff…<br /><br />Has anyone suffered from a similar work related compulsive disorder (OCD)?<br /> <br />Let me know about it and best of all, let me know how you broke the addiction. 2013-11-15T13:04:20-05:00 MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 6617

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The first step is to admit the problem… I HAVE AN EMAIL ADDICTION.<br /><br />After the integration of a computer dependent military, I know others may be suffering this same addiction (I had my first computer back in 2000 and learned how to use It in 2003).<br /><br />I check my email 1st thing in the morning and no less than every 3 hours afterwards (even on weekends), I have several email accounts so I would check my military, civilian, small business and personal email account (in that order).<br /><br />For every email I send, I read twice before I send and once after I send it, then anxiously refreshing the page every hour to see if I got a response…<br /><br />It is an incapacitating addiction since I know that it takes much of my time and I could be doing other productive stuff…<br /><br />Has anyone suffered from a similar work related compulsive disorder (OCD)?<br /> <br />Let me know about it and best of all, let me know how you broke the addiction.

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<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We as a society have a digital addiction. You are not the only one. Email and social media drive what we do in the world. As soon as I leave work, I try and leave the digital world or minimize it, even on the weekends. I am mentally burnt out from staring a computer screen for 8 hours a day. I just can see myself doing even more at home. I try to not let it consume me. I don’t really need to stay up to date like that. If it was important someone would call me. Other than that I let it be.

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