You must have heard about MD drugs which defame Bollywood. This is the drug whose effect remains in the body for 48 hours and millions of people are victims of it, but these days people are falling prey to new drugs served by Hollywood-Bollywood.
New Drugs That's In Your Mobile
This is the addiction of watching webseries on OTT (over the top) platforms. This addiction is also called 'Binge Watching'. In this, once someone starts watching the webseries, till the climax comes, the eyes do not take off from the screen.
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A 3-month-old girl was suffering in fever for 8 hours, but the mother busy watching the webseries on OTT did not even realize it. If the father did not reach at the right time, high fever could have led to the death of the innocent.
Psychiatrists and psychologists believed that watching 8 hours of webseries at a time is like drug addiction. Every day 4 to 5 such cases are coming to them, in which even the personality of the user is changing.
CASE - 1
The mother, who was preparing for the competition, was given a smart phone by the mother in lockdown, which has now become a disaster. The daughter got used to watching Korean thriller series in mobile by staying awake all night. After evening, there is no sense of even eating. An angry look shows up when the food is taken to the bed. She gets so annoyed that she kills the plate itself. Even if the whole food is scattered on the bed itself. She gets angry even when she enters the mother's room, starts hitting her while speaking loudly. The mother cried while telling all this about her daughter in front of the Shocked Psychiatrist.
Study: People falling prey to addiction because of these reasons
Being mobile, people of all ages have access to the OTT platform. High Speed Internet Connection, Broadband, Cheap Data Charges, Smart Phones, Affordable Rates of OTT Platform Subscription, Personalization of Digital Content. The OTT platform gave the freedom to the consumers including youth to watch their favorite shows at their convenient time without commercial breaks. Young people began to devote their free time to it. Due to being a big consumer market, competition is not only for India but also in the OTT player of the international level.
Study: 4 out of 5 mobile users are fond of OTT content
4 out of 5 smartphone users in India watch OTT content continuously. By the year 2020 itself, OTT apps had become the most downloaded apps. A study on binge watching was published in India in December 2021, in which several reasons were enumerated. The biggest reason for this trend has been attributed to the Corona epidemic.
In the technical language of doctors, the addiction of binge watching releases dopamine in our brain. It is a kind of happy hormone. Which keeps motivating the mind and body to watch the web series continuously. If someone is addicted to a particular web series, then this body is called dopamine addiction. It is exactly the same process experienced during drug or other addiction.
If a person takes 5-6 weights of drugs due to curiosity, then it does not take long to change into a habit. He finds himself far away from the worldliness. The drug makes him feel happy. That's how binge watching also works. Start with hobby or time pass. But after the completion of one episode, the craze of watching the second and then the third in the mind goes on increasing till the climax.
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