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Whether it be a comedy, anime, or horror, teenagers find refuge in the consistency of television. When the stress of life grabs a hold of you, TV shows keep you grounded, and help you handle anxiety. ntertainment plays a big part in “COVID has made times rough but teenagers’ lives. What you watch [Gilmore Girls] has helped me get through affects your state of mind, helps you the anxiety and loneliness. It can always cope with hard times and builds your make you laugh and lift your mood during character. hard times,” Anabel Bradley, so., said. Television teaches us life lessons. Watching a funny show, like senior AbIn 2017, the average viewer spent four igail Pape’s favorite TV show Family Guy, hours a day watching TV. That time incan increase production of immunoglobvestment shapes our lives. ulin A, an antibody that “[Ginny and Georkeeps away viral infecgia] teaches you love tions in the mucous and shows you what membranes. In other hate looks like,” Anaywords, laughing keeps sia Perkins, fr., said. you healthy. The average family “I enjoy the humor it spends 37 minutes a presents. It is primarily day with undivided satire, so I enjoy laughattention on each othing at current events,” er to strengthen relaPape said. tionships. In comparLaughter is the key to ison, the average teen happiness. Television shows invite us on spends 4 hours and 44 minutes watching a journey with the characters. We laugh, TV daily. Instead of learning from adults, love and cry beside them. teens are looking to the characters on the other side of the screen. Escapism can be a coping mechanism for handling stress. When the COVID-19 Elizabeth Hawkes pandemic threatened our sense of normalcy, television helped us through.
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