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Lourdyne Jean-Louis
Dr. Smith
English 101
3/14/19
Anxiety and depression affects around 15 million Americans every year. Anxiety is a
feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with
Cutler in “Binge-Watching May Affect Your Health” states that, watching TV in excess have a
bad effect on people health, mentality and medically. He discusses that people who have TV
watching habits specifically during two hours a night are suffering from depression, anxiety
differently than those who did not. they are a lot of things that can have bad influence on people
and watching TV for too long is one of them. Watching TV for longer period of time between 3
to 8 hours a day can affects people psychologically and physically because they isolate
themselves to do so, and the TV light interferes with their ability to sleep.
can affects them psychologically. After watching TV for too long especially at night before
going to bed can make the watcher spend the night of thinking about what he or her saw on the
TV until to become insomnia. Watching too much television can lead to engaging in risky
behaviors. As it is mention in “Does Watching Television Affect Your Brain”. When you are
detached from the real world and living primarily in the world you see show on television, you
may be influenced to engage in the behaviors you see on television, such as smoking, drinking,
and doing illegal drugs. Also, people who watch too much television run the risk that their brains
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will become too active or too excited from the fastness of the shows they watch. Some fear that
the brain will change in ways that lead to a shorter attention. they can feel sad and suffer from
depression. However, they also have difficulty of thinking and concentrating, as Cutler
mentioned” those who watching at least two hours of TV a night was twice as likely to report
feeling depression”, because they have difficulties to sleep, they feel lonely, and have negative
reflections. They become afraid or nervous especially about what may happen in the movies or
Usually, those people are most likely stressed out. A variety of factors, including work,
education, family life, or relationships, can cause stress. It is important to try managing and
addressing these stressful situations when they arise. Because when you are stressed your body
releases stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. And make you think that nobody loves
you, they do not care about you, then you will feel very sad. That can affect them by making
them upset with everybody and even worse, they can hate life and planning to kill themselves.
Stress had a negative impact on mental health, life satisfaction, and general health.
As in example, I got one of my cousin that suffered from depression, her name is Sacha
she left her mom’s house and rent a new one by herself, she got a watching TV habit. Every day
after work, she brings some food and took her laptop and watch movies until she got to sleep.
Never went to the gym, or go hang out with a friend. as a result, she felt into depression. She
called my sister and told her that her mom did not likes her, her sisters neither. She said anyone
loves her, and decided to kill herself. My sister Kat went to see her and talked to her to see if she
will get better. After that, she was obliged to see a specialist because she was going to be crazy.
However, Watching TV in excess affect people not only psychologically but, also
physically and makes them anxious. Because TV watchers are not social person, they usually
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isolate themselves to watch TV. However, having such habit can make them diabetic and get
cardiovascular disease. Just like Cutler states in the article. those persons have a significant
increase or decrease in appetite. Moreover, they usually eat a lot of sugar and become fat and
have an increased heart rate and increased sweating. They are less likely to exercise and more
inclined to snack on junk food. Those people use to eat more or less, they use to lose weight or
take too much weight. They also can have some back problems; poor posture can cause their
spine to be curved or weak. They can have insufficiency of oxygen; sitting for long periods of
time and never move reduce your lung capacity it is absence of physical activity, they also have
highest heartbeat than usual that can increase their risk for heart disease and stroke. They are
In conclusion, it is very important to work hard to avoid bad habit in everything, such as
food, TV, drugs, or any other things and always take care of yourself, because those things have
bad effect on people’s life. It can affect them in some negative ways, also can lead people in to
depression and anxiety. In order to avoid those problems, you have to stay near to positive
people to build strong relationships with them, and stay away from toxic people. Make friends
and go hang out with them. Go to the beach and have fun. Exercise regularly. Maintain a healthy
weight. Eat and sleep well. Stay away from TV and social media. Or limit yourself, or make it a
social thing and invite friends, family or kids to watch with you. And stop using alcohol and
drug.
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Works Cited
Cutler, Jacqueline. “Binge-Watching May Affect Your Health”, New York Daily News, Nov 03,
2015.www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/binge-watching-leads-depression-health-problems-
article-1.2422662.
Emma. “Does Watching Television Affect Your Brain.” Wonderopolis, Jan 24, 2018.
wonderopolis.org/wonder/does-watching-television-affect-your-brain