Nomophobia -- fear of being without your phone -- is on the rise

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. By habit, I almost always take mine with me when I go somewhere

but when I'm home I just leave it on the kitchen table or somewhere else that I don't remember so I have to call it in order to find it. I don't take it with me when I'm working out in the yard and I definitely don't take it to the bathroom. I did get a little nomophobic a couple of years ago when my elderly dad became seriously ill and started to decline because I had to be in constant contact with his caregivers - something was always happening, so I always had to have the phone with me. But I've never felt I had to have it with me all the time just to have it. I don't have to be able to play Angry Birds all the time.