Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "What Binge Watching Does To Your Brain | Let Lee Explain" video.

  1. Pretty disingenuous and deceptive to compare chemical dependancy and behavioral disorders with stuff people like doing as a hobby. Yes, there are edge cases of people who are genuinelly addicted to watching shows and whatnot, but this in no way is even remotely comparable to drug addiction and other types of disorders. It's not only a huge false equivalence, it's also pretty offensive to people who are fighting these sort of addictions and disorders. Saying that watching a couple or more TV shows releases dopamine proves nothing. Any sort of activity you take pleasure in releases dopamine, including sports, walking with your dog for some, reading a book, and several other types of activities. Dopamine is a substance which your brain releases in several pretty regular situations, it's not the only factor that defines addictions or disorders, and making it seem this way is just a high degree of ignorance on how our brains work. And then, as always, correlation is not causation. Opinion pools and general question type research are also not enough to prove any sort of causation there. The study quoted, at least from the little that was talked about it, seems to estabilish no concrete relation between the two factors - binge watching and mental health issues. It doesn't even get to the point of questioning which one is caused by the other, let alone that one is the cause of the other to begin with. Also, you should trust executives "marketing speech" as much as you should shallow pieces like this one. In summary, this video is making poor use of science and scientific research to come to conclusions that were probably not even listed in the original papers, or they were poorly done in the end. But it's because of crap like these that people come around talking about violent video games and violence, plus all sorts of other crap. And I don't really get it why there are so many videos around subjects like these... it just seems like people not wanting to take responsibility for their bad behaviour trying to find scapegoats for all the crap they do. Sorry if this doesn't fit the narrative, but for most people, binge watching is just a decision about what to do with their free time. It's not an addiction, it's not a problem, it's not divised by some shady CEO. It's just a choice. Not a problem if it doesn't affect you negatively, but if it is, you should just consider stopping it. If you cannot, then it might be a problem. But for most people it isn't, so this in no way shape or form should be compared to drug addiction or behavioral disorders.
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