Wow, yet another technogenic diagnosis. (If medically induced illness is iatrogenic, and illness of unknown origin is cryptogenic, then technology induced illness should be technogenic, right?)

Email apnea. Awesome. You can bet I’ll be making my own covert observations around home and office to see if it’s in evidence.

Any theories as to the cause of the breath-holding? Is it a bracing for possible bad news in the mail? A natural process relating to composing words in the mind?

Is breath-holding or erratic breathing seen in other composition scenarios?

File it right there between Blackberry thumb and typographically induced nystagmus.