better than Bold and the Beautiful or Days of Our Lives.

My mom was a huge fan of 'As The World Turns,' a soap she watched with her mother back in the day. We had a family VCR that she used to record episodes every day so she could watch it when she came home from her nursing shift.

Yet it is apparently a better alternative than sitting alone with thoughts in the silence.

Sad to say, this is quite accurate. I'd much rather be doing something than nothing. Most of the time, my time to sit with my thoughts are the first few minutes I roll around in bed and my walk to and from school, which I manage to keep my phone away on.

mental illness requires the space to heal, but we aren't giving it that space and instead keeping our brains engaged and distracted by a lot of irrelevant noise, rather than the space to be ill and recover to come back stronger.

Seems like a reasonable theory to me! I definitely stay busy to avoid dealing with issues. Splinterlands is PERFECT for this!