- » According to the University of Maryland, Unhappy People Watch TV, but Happy People Read/Socialize. “[T]he TV habit may offer short-run pleasure at the expense of long-term malaise.” I think I discovered this fact a long time ago. Not that I don’t watch TV at all, its just that TV all the time is actually pretty depressing. Yeah, so like anything in life, just another thing to take in moderation. (0)