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Nov 18 2008 | Comments 3
Depressed People Spend More Time Watching TV
Liz | 11:07 AM | Uncategorized
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Depressed People Spend More Time Watching TV
Liz | 11:07 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol is executive editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper’s book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.
The whole study seems like a pointless academic exercise to me. The author says: “this habit may offer short-run pleasure at the expense of long-term malaise” - this strikes me as a rather trite attempt to establish a causal link between tv watching and depression. Aren’t there more useful things university sociologists could be studying?!
This is shocking! Who would have thunk it? This is one stupid study. All you have to do is ask one depressed person and they will tell you they can’t concentrate worth a darn to read, so you switch on the tube instead.
I was supposed to be watching the TV? I call it more catatonia in front of the TV.
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