TV Addiction

It's in the house of everyone. Some people having more than one, each in every room, even in the bathrooms. Television. From watching your favorite TV series, or those reality shows, the news or of course movies, TV has become a must have in a home. The average person until the age of 18 will have watched about 24000 hours of TV. In that time a person could've finished 2 years of university, could've studied 1 or 2 languages, speaking both of them almost fluently, or could've read a whole library. Millions of people are so hooked that they fit the criteria for substance abuse as defined in the official psychiatric manual, according to Rutgers University psychologist and TV-Free America board member Robert Kubey. Heavy TV viewers exhibit five dependency symptoms. These include: 1) using TV as a sedative; 2) indiscriminate viewing; 3) feeling loss of control while viewing; 4) feeling angry with oneself for watching too much; 5) inability to stop watching; and 6)......

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