Topic: CAN THIS BE TRUE?

Effects of television addiction
Television addicts exist everywhere from the Far East to the USA. Those people watch television on daily basis for three hours or more and sometimes have to drop important activities just to be able to watch television for few more hours. The dangers of television addiction are really bigger than what you could imagine and the following few examples are a sample of what television addiction can do to your life:

Programming your mind: Just as watching Jackie Chan’s movie programmed my mind the movies that you watch will program your mind too whether you wanted it or not. Watch a lot of drama and you will become a cry boy, watch a lot of action movies and you might become violent or watch a lot of horror movies and you might start to believe in ghosts.

Changing your beliefs about life : Why do people want to get rich in two weeks? Why do keywords such as “How to become a billionaire over night” are among the popular search keywords? Why do people feel really bad when they get rejected for the first time?? Movies have taught us that good guys fail, face problems but usually solve them before the end of the movie. It never takes the Good guy more than few days to move from poverty to wealth, from being unknown to fame and from being sad to being absolutely happy. When your beliefs about life change you start to assume that life events should be similar to the events you saw in the movies but unfortunately this only results in disappointment. The most famous example out of them all is not being able to get over someone just because of thinking that he was the one.

Depressing You: Watching television for extended periods of time have been linked to depression. Moreover, this depression results in being unable to stop watching TV and so a cycle of depression and television addiction is developed.

Makes you feel guilty : Usually television addiction is associated with delaying important tasks or wasting time that should be allocated to your family. This results in feelings of guilt that keep increasing in intensity as you keep watching.

Negative thinking: 99% of the news that appears on Television is negative. Lots of movies and TV series have negative messages embedded within. Being subjected to such negative messages and news results in making you feel bad and in even making you a negative thinker.

Well that report is from researchers and not my own opinion.