Watching shorts? Scientists recently discovered something alarming: those endless TikTok and TH-cam shorts might be hurting your brain more than you think! 🧠⚠️
When you watch too many short videos, your brain starts to change. Imagine your brain like a muscle. 💪 Watching shorts all day makes the "focus and think" part of your brain weaker. In one study, people who watched shorts for just 95 minutes a day had their focus get worse. Before the experiment, they could focus for a whole 3 minutes. After, they could only concentrate for 47 seconds! 😵‍💫
But it gets worse. Your sleep can suffer too. 🛌💤 Half of the people in the study developed insomnia-they couldn’t sleep properly. Why? Because their brains stayed too excited, even at night! 😴
Short videos also mess with your emotions. Many people who watched too many shorts felt sad, anxious, or even depressed. 😟 This happens because your brain craves those quick bursts of fun from shorts-just like candy. 🍬 But the more you watch, the harder it is to feel happy without them.
And here’s the scariest part: these changes can happen in just two months. 😨 After six months, it becomes really hard to undo the damage.
So, next time you want to scroll through shorts, stop and think. Maybe it’s time to pick something longer and give your brain a break! 🛑📖✨