Re: VDT?
Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
Does video display terminal include CRT and LCD monitors? I had thought that LCDs were much easier on you in terms of stress on your eyes/head etc.
You are making the most stupid comment. The research is not based on what kind of monitor you are using, is based on your habits.
All of you, quit being so materialist, I do not have a Herman Miller chair and I do not suffer from back injuries. Pay attention to this.
I can tell I experienced most of the symptoms:
1. Anxiety: I'm always going to the kitchen to eat something.
2. Eye fatigue: Of course, no matter what kind of monitor I use. When that happen I combine my anxiety with the eye rest and take a look to the horizon, that helps a lot.
3. Headaches: NO, usually they come because of the eye stress.
4. Lower back injuries: NO, I do not spend that much time in the computer any more and I ususally work out because I know that can happen.
5. Depression: May be, to spend so much time in a computer involves tremendus time in asolation and eventually a discordance with other humman beings, I mean, after a few month would be hard to relate to other people, that is why most of the "nerds" or computer geeks (if my spelling is right) are very frutrating getting dates and stuff.
6. Fatige: That is cause because you are not using your muscles and you do not work out, the start to deteriorate and your boddy is not use to use the average of enery that you would need during the day. I'm dealing with that right now, The solution: dring 2 bottles of gatorade during per day from 3 to 5 days, that is gonna help you stand up much more easier to do some other stuff.
Well, in my experience, all this symptoms can be applied to people that watch a lot of tv too. I'm telling you this because I have my brother that is 34 years old and suffer from all that, specially from another one that is "lack of money".
The problem is not sitting in the computer, that can actually be the result of another problem. I have seen a lot of people that are very bad realting to other people and had found a "good enviroment" working for many hours in their computers, of course, that is an enviroment that they can control. My brother suffers from that too, when he gets tired of watching tv he goes to the computer to watch porn, of course this is causing a depression cycle.
What I do is working in my computer in the morning or in the afternoon (never in booth at same time) and usually I have a date with a client in eather both of the times, that way I can spend practical time with my computer and still being able to socialize with other people, that is so important.
When I come at night I spend a few more hours in hotline and downloading stuff, but during the day I'm doing animations in after effects.
I just can't stand spending too much time in the computer, specially because I have done it before and I know the results can be worst than the ones in the article:
-Serious back injures.
-Sexual anxiety without a girlfriend.
-Depresion that end up with stress, paranoia, rache at other people, etc.
-No money
-Tendence to become a compulsive buyer (when you do not have too many things to do you started to buy things for your computer).
The worst of all is the isolation from other people and the lack of social contact, when you meet a girl and start to flyrt with her talking about macs you are just fighting for the best room in the Titanic, unless that other girl is just like you (that never happens BTW). So, do never loose social contact, in the long way that is gonna even help you with your work.
I'm 27 years old and I graduated from a Multimedia school 4 years ago and I have a audio ingeneer dregree previous of that, I specialize in midi and sound design since I was 14, I know what I'm talking about.
