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> I couldn’t check my email or refresh my Instagram

> ... trying to describe what I was feeling. The two words “extreme suffering” won the naming contest in my head...

The "extreme suffering" was in relation to his emotional crisis, not because he was unable to use his phone.

Hyperbole makes a point weaker, not stronger.

And judging someone's self-described suffering as hyperbole misses the point altogether.

Wow you took that out of context.