Ah, this is a description of me as well. No drinking, just my web serials for hours and hours every day. Some of them feel like TV, I can feel my brain atrophy as I just glide over and through the words -- it can barely be called reading, at times. One of my eyes got blurry and painful recently. I was unable to stop reading, even though staring at screens caused me great pain. Maybe that was the cause in the first place.

It's a peaceful ocean, an escape. It's enjoyable, it's numbing. It's starting to affect my work.