Are you taking your BlackBerry to bed with you?

Talk about being a workaholic. A new AOL Survey conducted in partnership with the Opinion Research Corporation is showing that when it comes to e-mail most of us simply do not know how to disconnect. The problem seems to have gotten worse with the creation of mobile e-mail devices such as the BlackBerry. The survey included 4,025 respondents over the age of 13 from 20 different cities.

The survey showed most people check their e-mail about five times a day. If you have a portable device, then 59% of you are checking it every time a new message arrives. If this wasn’t bad enough, 43% of those with a portable device were keeping the device near them when they sleep to check for e-mail.

If this is someone who sounds like they need a vacation, keep in mind that 83% of e-mail users admit to checking their e-mail once a day while on vacation. That’s probably why 15% of respondents feel they are addicted to e-mail. As far as the most e-mail addicted city Washington, D.C. took top honors followed by Atlanta and New York.

That’s why I don’t think it is cool anymore to get yet another device or tool that keeps me chained to the office outside of work. After all, it becomes a security blanket that people can’t seem to put down. That’s probably why I also don’t take my BlackBerry with me on vacations. It’s to protect me from me.

Read more from the AOL press release.