This symptoms are just based on my own experience. If anyone having the same symptoms as me, please pick the one that really relate to you and comment below.. =)
- Once you start watching the first episode of a drama, you keep on watching the next episode until its your bedtime.
- If the drama is ongoing, you will find another drama/variety show to fill the gap or you will check for the updates 24/7.
- You can finish watching a 16-episodes drama in 3 days (at least).
- If you're a student, you keep postponing your assignments and projects until the very last minute. To the extent you hold an all-nighter to finish your assignments and projects but still end up watching drama/variety show.
- You want to manage time better, so you only allow yourself to watch one episode while eating/break but you tend to watch 4-5 episodes.
- You become so angry to yourself for not doing your assignments/projects, but you end up watching drama some more to relieve stress.
- There's not even a single day which you fail to watch Korean drama or variety show.
- Whenever you are stressed out, you watch funny drama or variety show to cheer you up. And since the effect is temporary, you'll watch it all day long.
- After awhile, you can understand Korean language a bit. You even use phrases like 'Aigo~', 'Omo!', 'Ottoke?!' etc in your daily life.
- You start to crave for Korean food that you watch on drama. (I craved for beef when I was watching 'My Girlfriend is a Gumiho')
- You know almost all the actors and actresses in the drama and even their plastic surgery scandal.
- When you can't seem to get over a drama, you watch the BTS or NGs posted on Youtube.
- When you can't get over an actor/actress, you seek for their profile details or trivial.
- You start watching a drama which have your favorite actor/actress or because the hero/heroine is good-looking.
- When people suggest you get some help, you refuse because you don't think it as hazardous as alcohol/drug addiction. (Honestly, it's the same in a way..)
- When you want to curb this addiction, you can only last for maximum a day only.
My symptoms might be different from others. I believe there are other people who are more extreme than me.. Share with me some of your symptoms that I may not list down.
I'm putting this list up NOT because I am proud of myself. It's something that I resent because I lost control of myself. I would like to seek help but I don't know how. Watching drama is not a problem but I need to limit it so that it won't interfere with my academic life or daily life. I learn to procrastinate because of this addiction as well.
My fight against this addiction is something I want to achieve this year, as what I wrote in my Priority List 2013. Do you think I'll be able to do it?
