Yikes... This Is What Binge-Watching Does To Your Mental Health — mtv.com

Binge-watching: truly one of life’s greatest pleasures, right? Ehhh, maybe not anymore. A team of researchers from University of Texas at Austin wanted to find out what mental factors lead people to binge-watch, and their results don’t bode so well for anyone who’s wasted away entire Saturdays with Frank Underwood, Walter White and Olivia Pope. The researchers asked 316 millennials, aged 18 to 29, about their binge-watching habits. For the purposes of this study, that meant watching two or more episodes of a single show in one sitting.

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