Just to be compulsively clear about this blog's name: of course television doesn't cure depression, any variation of it.
But TV can help.
It's been helping me since my pint-sized self listened to Johnny Carson on my parents' TV, Johnny and his audience's laughter audible in my nearby bedroom.
Assuming I'm using the remote control shrewdly, TV continues to makes me laugh -- a lot.
Reams of studies now state that laughter improves human moods through positive neurochemical changes.
Hey, it seriously works for me. Like the ad used to say, better living through chemistry.
