Watching Prime, Netflix all the time? You might have turned into an addict
Long
hours before the screen, bingeing on your favourite show as the night slips
into dawn and another day beckons that this all too familiar scenario can
spiral into a medically certifiable addiction is already in evidence, say
doctors.
There
is increasing anecdotal evidence of people getting hooked to multiple screens
television, computer and phone -- with online video streaming platforms like
Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon
Prime offering entire seasons of television shows and thousands of
films at the touch of a button.
Now,
in what could be India's first such case, a 26-year-old in Bangalore is being
treated for "Netflix
addiction".
The
young man, being treated at Bangalore's National Institute of Mental Health and
Neurosciences (NIMHANS), reportedly turned to the online video streaming
platform to keep himself occupied during a six-month period of unemployment
before he realised he just couldn't stop.
"He
used to watch (online series) for seven hours, and sometimes it would go up to
10 hours per day. It led to loss of control, withdrawal. When his parents asked
him not to watch, he would get angry and irritated," Manoj Kumar Sharma,
who is treating the man, told PTI. Read
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