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My nightly post-work routine is as follows: leave work, drive to the store, buy a “meal for one,” make said “meal for one,” sit in front of my television and watch television until I get so tired that I have to lug myself to my room. And honestly, I don’t think that’s very outside the box when it comes to a lot of people my age. Sure, I could spend two of those hours at the gym getting shredded, but that’s just not me.
But now a study is saying that watching anywhere from two to five hours of television is constituted as “binge-watching,” and that binge-watching can lead to depression and anxiety. Per The New York Post:
Binge-watching TV — including popular Netflix shows like “House of Cards” or “Orange Is the New Black” — is linked to depression and anxiety, a new study claims.
Researchers polled North Americans about their “binge-watching” habits, which they defined as two to five consecutive hours of TV in one day, according to the University of Toledo study.
Roughly 35 percent of participants qualified as binge-watchers and reported higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression than non-binge-watchers.
Well, this isn’t helping the Sunday Scaries. All this time, I thought sitting in The Panic Room watching romantic comedies and falling in and out of sleep with Sportscenter on was helping ease my depression and anxiety. So yeah, this is a real swift kick in the dick if you’re in the same boat as me.
But it’s like, what the hell else am I supposed to do? Go outside? Exercise? Ride a bike? Yeah, no. All that’s going to do is make me tired and force me to sit around my house watching even more television than I already do. It’s just an endless cycle that I refuse to be a part of. So stand with me in defiance and binge-watch as much as you possibly can before they start limiting your consumption. It’s the American way. .
[via New York Post]
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I buy “meal for two’s” but let’s be honest, it’s a meal for one.
I thought a “binge” implied that it was irregular behavior. If I watch 5 consecutive hours of TV every night, it’s not binging, it’s routine.
What about binge Fallout 4?
Makes you ready for the apocalypse?
Given the status of the primary races, I’m prepping.
The Commonwealth is such a happy place, I’m sure there’s no risk of getting depressed by spending all your nights there.
Yeah, I mean I found the milk of human kindness, so that has to count for something.
Does binge watching make you depressed and anxious, or does being depressed and anxious make you binge watch? We need a randomized controlled trial. I volunteer as a subject.
Writes and article where he admits he binges on tv, then writes another where he blasts women who watch a lot of Netflix and are “lazy”…makes sense
stating that you binge watch netflix in response to a study is much different that proudly exclaiming via any social medium that you are in a loving relationship with netflix, with a girlfriend named vin-o, and a mistress by the name of pizza.
Wait, why don’t you just buy five “meals for one” at a time and skip the store the other four days of the week?
Why don’t you let me be me?
I binge watch BECAUSE I’m depressed and anxious. Not the other way around.
I liked it before, when I binged watched because I was lazy and unmotivated.
The more and more I read by Will Devry….defries…whatever, makes me think hes a little whiny cunt
Your words are like dust in the wind. Seen initially, but just like that, they’re gone and nobody seemed to notice they ever even existed.