What's OCECD? The EC part stands for 'email checking'...

Are you suffering from email constipation? That's when your account's inbox is really stuffed up. Not only are there endless already-read emails you are not ready to delete; there are unending unread emails that you tell yourself you will, you must, get to reading and deleting when... yeah, when?

You know you can't go back to that email Garden of Eden, when you first logged in to a fresh new email account, and there was only the "welcome" email message. Now you wish you could purge them all and start afresh. But you can't.

You might even have "obsessive compulsive email checking disorder" -- OCECD! One online definition of OCECD is found here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obsessive-Compulsive+Email+Checking+Disorder+(OCECD)

But, before you rush off to the doctor's to get sick leave, medically-speaking, there's no such condition. Still, you may need an "email vacation", says San Francisco journalist Bill Synder, if you have these symptoms of stress:

• My work has become how to manage email.
• I have so many emails, I don’t even read them.
• With email, it's a train wreck … you can't look away from it.
• I let the sound of the bell and the pop-ups rule my life.

 You might want to read his thought-provoking article, "Ease Off Email, You'll Live Longer," in the link below:

http://blogs.cio.com/e-mail/17050/ease-email-youll-live-longer

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