# TV experiment! I challenge you!
**URL:** https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019
**Category:** Health and Recovery
**Created:** [June 5, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019 "2026-06-05T13:57:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@labratmat](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/labratmat)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/1 "2026-06-05T13:57:58Z")
I was sitting there this morning having not put the tv on for several days in a row in the AM and feeing glad about it.
I know the usual rubbish is on. TV chat panel shows spewing out the same shite that is supposed to cause moral outrage inside yourself. Knowing that no one on tv will ever represent my views whatever the time of day. Bombarderd with adverts I don’t want to listen to…
The same old liberal capitalist drivel…
The TV makes me feel bad inside myself. It upsets and annoys me.
It turns me into a vegatable. It leaves me in a form of hypnosis and I can waste hours of every day just sitting there.
So I decided to se how long I can keep the televsion off for.
I started downloading Graphic Audio novels which are full cast audio books which I find to be a game changer when it comes to making an audio book alive.
I picked up my guitar and did a full hours pracitice. I played the tabla drums. I sat in the sun and enjoyed cups of tea.
I will now listen to some music.
Anyone want to join me in my tv fast?
You will get so bored with yourself that you might actually get the motivation to do something.
How long can you last? What will you do?
📺 💣 💥 = 😃
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### Author:  [@Rainstorm](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Rainstorm)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/2 "2026-06-05T14:00:46Z")
I usually just use my tv to listen to music
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### Author:  [@Schizbro](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Schizbro)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/3 "2026-06-05T14:01:29Z")
Ive been on tv fast since the early 2000s. Havent watchrd much tv at all since I was a kid. Im all day in front of the tv though.
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### Author:  [@Om\_Sadasiva](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Om_Sadasiva)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/4 "2026-06-05T14:03:10Z")
I leave tv on without watching
Just as a background noise
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### Author:  [@2Waynez](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/2Waynez)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/5 "2026-06-05T14:43:30Z")
I didn’t watch TV for a few years when I was working and in school. I didn’t miss anything. I was bettering myself. Bettering myself made my life more happy than tv. Yeah, quit TV if you think you’re bettering yourself. Appreciating life without constant chatter is nice depends what you’re trading it for. Most people can’t find anything to spark their curiosity like TV. They like to be told what’s going on in the world and want people to think for them. A lot of TV in the end doesn’t add up to anything meaningful. Most people that watch TV choose not to participate in life or they feel they’ve paid their dues so someone owes them entertainment then they feel everyone should entertain them. This person’s boring and so on. But now they have history and educational shows which to some are interesting. But in all honesty we should be focused on problems now in our own personal lives instead of being distracted with cherry picked propaganda from halfway across the world making it feel like everyone in every country is an outsider against us. It perpetuates hate. It’s what they’re doing with social media magnifying hateful people to get the most views. But it’s subtle. A snyde remark here and there in an echo chamber. TV is where we get most of our biases. Yeah, try it explore in the end do things that matter to you because everyone else is busy with their own ego on their own mission to get the most with the lead effort. Capitol. The number one cash crop. Good things.
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### Author:  [@FreeLunch](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/FreeLunch)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/6 "2026-06-05T14:44:59Z")
I don’t own a TV and I barely watch YouTube
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### Author:  [@Wave](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Wave)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/7 "2026-06-05T14:46:59Z")
I don’t watch tv but I do keep the news on the tv set in the background
I consider it a source of comfort believe it or not
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### Author:  [@77nick77](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/77nick77)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/8 "2026-06-05T15:37:53Z")
I watch TV about once a month. I’m usually on YouTube or this site.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Hope](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mr_Hope)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/9 "2026-06-05T17:49:27Z")
I watch tv every day. News, sports, movies. Most of it is without commercials luckily.
A tv fast is interesting, but watching tv gives a artificial sense of being social or participating. It’s comforting in a way.
But I might try it some day.
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### Author:  [@labratmat](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/labratmat)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/10 "2026-06-05T17:56:49Z")
Interesting time for me to give up with the World Cup coming up…
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Hope](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mr_Hope)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/11 "2026-06-05T18:30:28Z")
I hear they added a mandatory drinking break in the middle of both periods regardless of actual temperature at the venue, so they can squeak in extra adds on tv. Now that’s capitalism at work 🤨
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### Author:  [@sweetpotatopie](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/sweetpotatopie)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/12 "2026-06-05T19:02:09Z")
I specifically turn off the tv for two hours everyday and listen to audiobooks while I be my very best. It’s really calming. I make the kids do that as well.
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### Author:  [@Honeysuckle](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Honeysuckle)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 12:21am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/13 "2026-06-06T00:21:22Z")
I stopped watching TV around Covid/ 2020. Sometimes, my husband puts on short Youtube clips, but that’s about it. If he’s not at home, I don’t watch it unless my daughter wants to watch something.
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### Author:  [@PhotoGuy](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/PhotoGuy)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/14 "2026-06-06T00:34:01Z")
I don’t watch TV, but I like watching classic films.
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### Author:  [@greeneyedtreefrog](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/greeneyedtreefrog)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/15 "2026-06-06T01:10:35Z")
I don’t watch tv or hardly anything except cute animal videos.
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### Author:  [@labratmat](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/labratmat)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 7:21am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/16 "2026-06-06T07:21:05Z")
Day 2 of no TV!
It is unplugged at the mains still.
I did lots more guitar, meditation and listiening to music yesterday.
Resisting the urge to be a couch potato today by not switching it on.
Clothes washing on the go. Might make a song up later in music production, who knows…
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### Author:  [@Schztuna](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Schztuna)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 10:26am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/17 "2026-06-06T10:26:57Z")
During psychosis, voices called the TV “The Black Box,” which made me afraid to watch anything on it.
Nowadays I just have the same show on every day as background noise. It’s hard to focus on watching much anyways.
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### Author:  [@labratmat](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/labratmat)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 10:38am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/18 "2026-06-06T10:38:29Z")
> [@Schztuna](#):
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> During psychosis, voices called the TV “The Black Box,” which made me afraid to watch anything on it.
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> Nowadays I just have the same show on every day as background noise. It’s hard to focus on watching much anyways
TV has been a big part of my life and i have vegged away, On every day since forever. This is a big change for me.
Back in the day I once had a tv delusion as well for a few hours and it wasn’t pleasant at all! At the height of my psychosis after ECT and coming back to reality.
No problem since then however.
What is the show you have on in the background if you don’t ,ind me asking?
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### Author:  [@Schztuna](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Schztuna)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 10:49am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/19 "2026-06-06T10:49:01Z")
> [@labratmat](#):
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> Back in the day I once had a tv delusion as well for a few hours and it wasn’t pleasant at all! At the height of my psychosis after ECT and coming back to reality.
That sounds awful @labratmat— it’s quite eerie as televisions are so commonplace in the home, but psychosis twists anything and everything into something else, and usually with a sinister flavor in my experience.
> [@labratmat](#):
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> What is the show you have on in the background if you don’t ,ind me asking?
Kind of silly, but it’s been Midsomer Murders for the past few years now, haha. Plenty of seasons and the episodes are pretty long— and I _still_ don’t know whodunit after all this time 😅.
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### Author:  [@Vaiana](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Vaiana)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/tv-experiment-i-challenge-you/6019/20 "2026-06-06T12:16:12Z")
I rarely watch TV recently
I usually watch TV when I use Disney+ or when I watch Miraculous Ladybug
Last time was next week
If I do a fast, it would be about using less internet as I’m on my computer and phone all day
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