Ringxiety, Mailxiety and Critiqxiety

"Ringxiety", I think this is one the best new word that I have come across this month. I like this word, because I think everybody suffers from Ringxiety to a certain degree. In my case, I think I experience mailxiety more than ringxiety.

So what is Ringxiety?
Ringxiety is a relatively new term denoted by psychologists for a disorder when people mistake or imagine the external sounds to be that of their mobiles (cell phones) ringing, or they can also mistake the vibrations from the vehicle (e.g. while commuting to work) to be a call.

It seems that we have grown emotionally dependent on our mobiles for the feeling of self worth. We rely on the number of phone calls or the text messages that we get to measure our popularity and than our popularity gives us the feelings of self worth.

Variations of Ringxiety:
I think I suffer from Mailxiety more than I suffer from Ringxiety. When I get up in the morning, first thing I do is check out my emails, and this is pretty much the last thing I do before going to bed. Once in a while I post my photos on this website "Trek Earth", over there one can come across many people suffering from Critiqxiety i.e. people seem to be relying on the number of critiques that they get for their photos as an indicator of how good of a photographer they are.

Maybe the catch is to deal with Ringxiety and not to let it ruin and complicate our lives. I think it all comes down to keeping the fine balance.

Real life Incident: Few days ago I was chatting with a friend of mine from Europe and she told me that if she gets less than 4 SMS per hour on her mobile, she starts getting a feeling that she is not popular enough. I looked at my mobile and saw that last SMS that I had got was two weeks ago ;-). BTW ... It is not that I do not suffer from ringxiety at all, It is just that SMS is not really that popular on part of the earth where I live :D.

Now that I know what I suffer from i.e. mailxiety, I think the next step would be to formulate a plan that will subdue this. Oh well ... I am working on it ... I think I need to check my email now lols ... maybe I should try to sleep without checking my mails tonight ... but how will I be able to sleep than :-S. I wonder what will happen when I go trekking in the himalayas. There are going to be no mobiles and no computers for many weeks at a stretch ... just a peaceful life ..... Cheers to that.