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Radio 4,1 min

Are you suffering from Fear Of Missing Out?

Woman's Hour

Available for over a year

Do you follow complete strangers on Twitter? Constantly update your Facebook status, interrupt one call to take another one and insist on sleeping with your smartphone next to your pillow? If the answer to all of these is a yes then you might be suffering from FOMO — the fear of missing out on something or someone more interesting, exciting or better than what you're currently doing. Jenni is joined by writer and recovering FOMO addict Collette Walsh and psychologist Emma Kenny to discuss the issues.

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