Out of Sight, Out of my Mind

Sometimes I think that my news-reading habits and my idle hobbies create some kind of perverse cycle.
The more I read the news, the more depressed I get. The more depressed I get, the more I goof off to take my mind off of the news. The more I goof off, the more guilty I feel. The guiltier I feel, the more I read the news to at least bear some kind of intellectual solidarity with those who are oppressed in the world...which makes me more depressed...and so on and so on...

Comments

[Akh Ari]

Unhappy People watch more tv than happy people, U-Md. researcher finds:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/22/AR2008112201985.html

[Peter Terp]

If this were limited to just TV-viewing, I'd be relieved...but something tells me it doesn't make that much of a difference what you are doing in front of the screen.

By the end of the week, I've probably absorbed enough gamma radiation from my tube set to transform into a big green monster at heart rates above 177.