In the digital age, our lifestyle has completely changed... While our social life has become limited to the virtual world of social media platforms, the ways of personal life have also taken a different form. For example, people have got a new source of entertainment in the form of an OTT platform, where people can watch any TV show, movie or web series as per their choice sitting at home. In such a situation, as much as OTT has made entertainment easier for people, its negative impact is also visible in people's lives. If seen from a health point of view, addiction to TV shows or web series is making people physically and mentally ill.
In this article, we are going to tell you about how the addiction of sitting and watching web series for hours (Binge Watching Side Effects) can make you sick. In this regard, we talked to UP's well-known psychiatrist Dr. CB Maddeshiyaand are sharing the information received from him with you here.
Dr CB Maddesiya explains that entertainment is beneficial to a great extent in keeping a person mentally healthy. But this should also have a fixed time so that it does not have any adverse effect on your other activities and health. However, the OTT platform has completely changed the world of entertainment. Whereas earlier people used to go out of the house to watch movies, now every kind of entertainment is available to you within the four walls of the house. In such a situation, you spend many hours sitting in one place watching shows without thinking and in such a situation, the longer you spend time on the screen, the more it adversely affects your health. Let us understand in detail the adverse effects on health due to addiction to watching TV shows or web series for hours.
Sleep problems
The OTT platform has started the trend of web series apart from TV shows and films, the craze of the audience towards it is well known. The story of these web series is constructed in such a way that people keep watching one episode after another and die only after watching the entire series together. In this intoxication, they do not even care about sleep and in today's time, most people are staying awake at night watching web series. Due to this, the sleeping pattern has completely deteriorated and due to lack of sleep, other mental problems are also occurring.
Mental depression
Our health experts say that earlier the whole family used to sit together and watch TV, but now with the advent of the OTT platform, every member of the house has available a different means of entertainment. People spend hours sitting in their rooms on mobile or laptops. Due to this, people's loneliness is increasing and they are falling prey to mental depression. Whereas in earlier times, on the pretext of watching TV, all the family members used to sit together and share things with you. This proved to be better for the mental health of all the family members.
Psychosomatic disorders
Addiction to watching web series is making people victims of psychosomatic disorders. In this regard, our experts say that when a person's mental confusion and stress start appearing in his behaviour and physical symptoms, then he is considered a victim of a psychosomatic disorder. Nowadays, many such news are being seen and heard, where due to addiction to web series, a person has behaved aggressively or has committed a criminal incident due to the influence of some TV shows. This is the effect of addiction of watching too many TV shows or web series which is being seen in the form of psychosomatic disorder.
Promote obesity
Now if we talk about the physical side effects of addiction to watching TV shows or web series, then due to this the problem of increasing obesity is being seen in people. In fact, in the craze of watching TV shows, people often eat more than required without thinking, which causes obesity. At the same time, it promotes obesity, blood pressure and heart-related problems.
How to avoid the side effects of binge-watching?
How can the side effects of binge-watching be avoided? Regarding this, Dr CB Maddeshiya says that first of all people will have to reduce the use of OTT platforms. It is not that you should completely stop watching OTT or other platforms, but you will have to minimize the time spent on it so that its side effects can be reduced.
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