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However, as long as I am in control – I seem to do ok. So television that is put on dvd, I seem to be ok with. Although I watch it like a movie, so that may be why.

I spent a few years without a television before my onset of CFS- so perhaps that is why it makes me so crazy.

But regular random television- hurts my brain. Same with listening to the radio, when I am at work. Having to listen to someone else’s radio station when I am trying to concentrate annoys me greatly. It just turns into noise-and exhaustion sets in.

TV, blogs, magazines, radio, podcasts have been my mainstays, but I know that most of those drain me and rot my brain (except individual blogs (it’s the volume I’ve got on my feeder that’s the problem) and podcasts). Except if you don’t have the energy to even lift a pair of knitting needles, what’s a person to do with their “waiting to become unconscious again” time? The worst part is, the longer I watch tv the harder it is to think of what else to do – and then the greater likelihood that eyestrain and commercial noise are about to pull me under.