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Watching Prime, Netflix all the time? You might have turned into an addict

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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) ...