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Are you addicted to text?

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The addiction clinic, The Priory, has reported some phone users spend seven hours a day texting.

In total, we Britons send more than one billion texts a week, prompting a public health concern.

What was once seen as harmless addition to your phone when the first text message was sent in 1993 now may have serious mental backlashes.

But do you own your mobile or does your mobile own you?

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