TV addiction
TV addiction is modern disease people have never known about before. Though, it is a common disease for nowadays. According to statistic for about 60 per cent of viewers may be recognized as TV-addicts. TV addicted is a psychological disease. There are several categories of addiction doctors recognize. According to their division there are such types of addiction: chemical addiction, biological-chemical addiction and psychological addiction. The TV addiction belongs to the third type and recognized as psychological addiction.
According to psychological researches, those people are inclined for psychological addiction, are those who don't feel happy with their lives. They are the people who thirsty for satisfaction. They are not satisfied with their work and they are not satisfied with their lives. So, they are looking for satisfaction in some other things and activity. Though, they are too tired and in a lack of time to find this satisfaction in some activity. They are tired with their work and they are thirsty for having a rest. They have their rest at home sitting on their sofas.
Though, it is too boring just sit on the sofa so they switch on their TV-sets and watch some movies or TV-shows. The common kind of TV addiction disease is zapping. It means that people never watch one TV-show or movie but zapping the channels. This disease starts with simple desire to avoid watching trailers. But, with the lapse of time zapping develops in TV-addiction. During watching some show people receive certain information they want to receive, but if people zapping during watching TV they receive no information at all.
It is a subconscious desire to find something they will be pleased with. But as a result they receive nothing except zapping. These people usually watch for several channels at a time and they realize nothing. They lose the core of what they watch in both channels. If you will ask such person what he or she is watching, a person will hardly manage to give an answer to this question. It is more likely that there will be no answer, as a person doesn't remember what he or she is watching. It is common case of TV addiction most people suffer from nowadays. They receive no information and so they just waste their time.
There are a number of problems caused by TV addiction. Those problems are of various natures. Those problems may be both psychological and physical. The psychological problems are revealed as torpor of person. Not hard to be that a zapper lost his or her ability to think. There is no need in thinking during zapping. And there is no information percept by people during zapping, so there is no new information and no development of personality. As for the physical troubles they are revealed as lack of physical activity and fresh air. People spend their time in front of the TV-set and they stay indoors all the time.
