1. No sense of time passing.
What starts off as a one episode study/cleaning/work/life break, turns into half a season before you have even realized what has happened to your day.
2. Forgoing snack runs.
You are no longer motivated to fulfill your basic human needs--using the bathroom, or eating regularly--because it would require pausing the show. Let's not even get started on the amount of sleep lost to the Netflix feature that only grants you a measly fourteen seconds to regain control of your life.
3. Denial of your real life obligations.
If you don't even want to take a bathroom break, why would you, for example, start that essay that's due tomorrow?
4. "Forgetting" to text back.
When people text you asking what you're up to, you hesitate to answer because you don't want them to realize that you would rather hang out with season 4 of "Gossip Girl" than them. Or simply, you don't want to admit that you're being anti-social with your Netflix, Hulu, and HBOGo accounts again.
5. For you, "Netflix and chill" actually means Netflix and chill.
You prefer to be on your own with your 150 episodes of "Grey's Anatomy." Snuggies, flannel pajama pants, and an Insomnia cookies account are on your marathon must-haves list.
6. The "just one more episode" mentality usually results in you running late.
Whether it's a class, an appointment, or even a lunch date, you know that you're pushing it when you click "next episode."
7. You have specific conditions for allowing someone to watch with you.
They must solemnly swear to remain as quiet as possible and refrain from telling you what happens--even if they have the seen the entire show twice on their own. Most importantly, no complaining. You don't care if they think that the plot is stupid or the character development weak.
8. Your typical day involves (at least) a couple hours of your latest obsession.
Three square meals, seven hours of sleep, and four hours of "Breaking Bad" seems like a healthy, balanced lifestyle...right?
9. When you stumble upon a spoiler alert, your heart breaks a little.
How dare the internet reveal that your favorite character dies in episode 17. Unless it's "Game of Thrones"--just assume any character that you grow attached to dies a grisly death.
10. Finishing a 5+ season series in a couple weeks seems reasonable to you.
Forget running marathons, you're a marathon bingewatcher.
11. When one series ends, another bingewatching session begins.
Shoutout to the "suggested" category that pops up when your journey with one show ends.
