Negative Effects Of Reality Tv

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The Dark Side Of The Reality Shows
Television is one of the most important part of the human life. Many of the people spend too much time while they are watching TV. Nowadays, everybody can find good TV shows for themselves because there are too many genres and each genre has its own properties. To illustrate, people can widen their horizon while they are watching documentaries or they can laugh while they are watching stand-up Shows. Some of the genres have bad effects on people. They influence people adversely. These type of programs are not appropriate for social values. Reality shows are one of them. It affects children, adults, teenagers, and other people. They just care about money and fame. Reality shows destroy social values and understanding …show more content…

First of all, reality shows affects people mentally. Facing with other people’s problems causes some problems for the audience and for the actors. “In the study, which appeared in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Joel and Ian Gold shed more light on this bizarre 21st-century phenomenon. The mental illness takes its name from the 1998 film starring Jim Carrey in which his character reaches the painful realization that his entire life has been staged for television. Those afflicted with the disorder believe that everything that happens to them is staged, everyone they know is an actor, and that they are constantly being filmed — but no one is allowed to admit it.” (Goyette,2012) According to Goyette’s research, reality shows also affect the movie stars. On the other hand, watching reality shows makes audience depressed because they see some problems on the television and they think that they may face with that problems. Another effect is that reality shows may cause physical illnesses. In order to watch that reality shows, people sit their couch for long hours. A 2014 study published in the International Journal of Cardiology suggests that human aged 2 to 10 for more than two hours a day is 30 percent more likely to be at risk for blood pressure compared to those who spend less time for watching TV. Lack of physical activity increased the risk even more by fifty percent. The lead researcher Dr. Augusto