I admit that for a time I checked my texts on shabbos. This was when I was feeling really really depressed. Shabbos was torture for me. I felt like I had no connection to reality and to the outside world. Checking my messages one time every shabbos helped me a lot. I’m ashamed of this and hope I never go back to that but I really think I can understand why a person might feel the need to use a phone on shabbos. I don’t condone it but I think I understand it.
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