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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2433695" data-attributes="member: 31094">Well, it depends. I think her reactions to being pulled away from the tv, and her antisocial behavior towards people like his grandmother, are actually quite abnormal. To me, someone's who just has a habit of being engrossed in tv does *not* get angry and rude to loved ones when pulled away for a minute. It's the same as why one person becomes addicted to gambling, for example, and another person can just occasionally go to the riverboat and lose a few dollars without becoming addicted, and why a third person has no desire to gamble at all. Some people have more addictive personalities than others. I know I don't have a very addictive personality, although at times I've had smoking and online gaming habits, but neither one was very difficult for me to give up. My best friend, however, is addicted to cigarettes and can't give them up no matter how broke she is, and has in the past been addicted to crack and meth as well. I've never understood drug addictions; I feel no desire to take drugs. But she did. In the same way, while one person may never watch tv at all, or even own a tv, and another person may watch maybe 1-2 hours of tv every couple of days, a third person may be so addicted to the pleasure they get from watching tv that they may need to see a counselor. From Vraille's descriptions of his wife's behaviors, I feel the need to watch tv is so deeply ingrained in her personality that she needs counseling to get her to stop freaking out about not being able to watch tv. (This is my opinion only.)</blockquote>

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