No matter where you go these days, you will likely see someone text messaging. But if you can't stop texting, some experts say you may actually have a mental illness.

Nikki Brown has a problem... she cannot keep her hands off her phone.

"I text morning, noon and night, and it adds up to about 3,000 to 5,000 a month. It is bad," said Brown.

Her habit is so bad that some psychiatrists are diagnosing obsessive texting as a mental illness.

According to an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, if you text too much during the day you probably have a problem.

People can get really addicted to it because you can get away with it when you are not supposed to be. It is a lot more incognito than talking on the phone, and you can be in a meeting or in school," said Brooke Smith.

Experts say that there are four distinct symptoms to diagnosing texting as a mental illness:

#1. Excessive use: Texting so much you lose track of time or neglect day to day activities.

#2. Withdrawal: Feeling angered or depressed when unable to text.

#3. Tolerance: Not minding how much you text, or evening upgrading to text more.

#4. Negative Repercussion: Social isolation, or feeling fatigued from sending those messages.

But with texting now becoming the more popular way "to communicate without communicating," some say whether it is a mental illness or not, it will take a lot more than a study to get texters to put down their phones.