Why do you feel so depressed after binge watching on Netflix?
The feeling of hearing news about a new season of Orange is the New Black or House of Cards on Netflix is overwhelming. The releases give you anxiety because you want to watch the season in one day and forget about you responsibilities in life. Say good bye to work, school, friends, and social events, and say hello to your bed or your couch, a bowl of popcorn, a bag of your favorite candies, an energy drink, and your streaming device for Netflix. It's the best when you snuggle up in your pajamas with your bunny slippers, and you turn on your favorite show.
You continue watching your favorite show the whole day, and day turns into night. By 9 o'clock, you start to feel tired and disconnected. You spent your whole day and part of your night tweeting your opinions, while eating garbage. Then you feel lonely.
Here's my theory why you feel lonely. Netflix is tempting, and when we binge watch, especially alone, we become disconnected. Before streaming services, we had to watch our favorite shows on cable and wait a week for the next episode. It was terrible. But in between our shows were commercials and news casts. We had a connection to make to other people, other communities, to our nation, and to the world.
Do you agree? Or do you think that we have a disconnection on television, and we switched our connection to social media on whats trending and what to buy.
From my experience with Netflix, I cannot watch for more than 2 hours without regretting my whole session because during that time I could have been doing other activities that are more valuable to my time. This regret led to remorse and then pity for myself. From my experience, Netflix produces depression.
So, We should limit our binge watching and spend more of our time outside, exercising, hanging with friends, going to class, or visiting a relative.
WEDNESDAY LOVE <3
Mikayla
P.S. Go see the Book of Morman...Best musical of this century.
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