Telvisneurotism

Telvisneurotism: noun. A degenerative syndrome that causes TV addicts to shout at a TV screen, wishing to change the outcome of a film, series or reality show. Not to be confused with the similarly pronounced elvisneurotism, a painful anxiousness for the health of Elvis Presley. Telvisneurotism was, rather strangely, coined before the introduction of the television – a good two thousand years ago. Originally, the word described the anxious feelings the public felt for a popular gladiator when he was doing badly. Looking at the stadium, they often tried to change the outcomes of the match telekinetically, obviously without too much success. In the modern day society, telvisneurotism has received a large amount of attention from various psychiatrists and researchers. A study by Spanish scientists conducted in May 2013, showed that over one half of all telvisneurotists were football fans, one third was comprised of soap opera addicts and the rest were the people yelling at the contestants of a certain TV show, saying “don´t take the box! Don´t take the box!”