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I'm 20 years old. This addiction first began when my parents bought me pokemon yellow for my kindergarden graduation. The addiction was not so much of an addiction at the time. I still achieved life goals and remained productive.

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But the downward spiral really began when I got into middle school. I was bullied a lot and had a very hard time making friends which meant that I would turn to video games when I got home from school. I had friends there. I had fun playing them. It gave me a place to be social when everyone else chose to mark me as an outcast. This is when I stopped doing my homework and started to focus less on my future.

One day I decided to download the trial for world of warcraft. I really wanted to play this game but my mom declined saying I would get addicted. I constantly got on her case and said no, I wouldnt.

My mom was very right on saying that. I was 13 when I got her to budge and let me play. What started as an after school thing turned into me ditching school toplay. What started as ditching school to play was just not going to school period.

When I did go to school I slept most of the time from the long nights spent binge playing. I had fun doing it, I will admit that. Then I dropped out of school at 17. 3 years have passed and I still play WoW all day everyday. I cant hold down a job. I havent been back to school since.

The worst part of it is that I dont even have fun playing video games anymore yet I still do. I continue playing because Ive poured nearly 8 years of my life into this game. My current play time on my main character out of 10 max level characters is 332 days or about nearly 8000 hours of play time. I cant break the cycle. My mental health has deteriorated along with my physical health. I've no desire to do anything but play this game. It's a severe problem.

One that is destroying my life and has already robbed me of my childhood. I have no motivation anymore. I wish I could turn away from it but everytime I try to I realize just how lonely my life is without it and how little I have achieved. That only throws me back into the game. This is the cycle of addiction that many of us have gone through. We play until our life falls apart around us, and then when we try to stop, it's so painful to face reality that the only thing we know how to do is go back into the game.

You know what's going to happen if you keep playing games. It's a pathetic existence, but at least it's comforting at the same time. The alternative-quitting games-is frightening because it's an unknown. What if you stop gaming, and it turns out that your life is still totally worthless? Might as well have kept playing so at least you didn't have to feel the pain. All I can say is that this is false logic that goes through the mind of every gaming addict. It is a product of your gamer brain, a brain that has been fundamentally shaped and patterned by years of compulsive gaming.

The good news is that your brain can change, at a very fundamental level, if you change your behavior. It takes time, for sure, but it will happen as surely as the sun will rise every day for the next thousand years. Stop gaming, and your life will get better.

That's actually hard to imagine in the beginning, so make it even easier-just stop today, and your life will get better. Just one day. You can deal with tomorrow when it comes.

If you make it to the end of the day without gaming, then that day is a success no matter what else happens. Thanks for sharing!

I quit right around 20 years old as well for the first time! It's a big step for you in your life. I relate to being bullied when I was younger, and it's one of the reasons why I turned to games as well. I even dropped out twice. So we have much in common! Something that might inspire you is on the sunk cost fallacy. From the sounds of it it's one of the reasons why you continue to play.

What you want to know is that you play games for specific reasons (they fulfill certain needs you have), so in order to break away from games you need to identify why you play and make sure you're intentional to fill these areas of your life. For example, if you quit you might lose all of your friends, so you want to set something up so you can make new friends. You also want to understand more about motivation (watch and.) When it comes to why you may not have a desire to do anything else, it likely has a lot to do with your brain and gaming.

Learn about that Anyways, what you want to know is that change is possible if you focus on learning what you need to do to get to where you want to be. Quitting games was the best decision of my life and although it wasn't easy, it's been worth it.

You have a support system on this subreddit to help, we've got your back! Warning my post is Made from a shittty phone screen. You havve already said what your solution is. I realize that it is scary to think about making friends man, fukkq I'm there now kinda.

I'm making friends kinda but it's marijuana relteda friends. Kinda a disappointing. But regardless, it is part of your solution. Turn off the games. Go try to make friends. Do not hesitatet. Push yourself to do things you are otherwise not as motivvated to do.

To relate, I am a heaggy weed smoker who just quit. The people ivve made friends with since I moved from Michigan are a all weed smokers. It's been a year and ivve done.maybe 5-7 home visits to their places in total.

I stay inside like a hermit with my socially anxious Gf most of the time. I also havve an that alongg with add, as does she. I'm different from evveryone I know aside her. It's lonely without to think about.but people.like me. It's better to focus on the ggood things. It's too easy to Foxx us on the negative side, Which is plainly obvious.

I'm not like all these social people. Most times.it's like.I don't know. They're so good at being fun people with others while I feel so.out of place. I've spent a lot.of.time gaming as well, too mu h. I still play I'm not really someone who is trying to quit gaming honestly but I do.enjoy this subreddit.

My point is, today I finally quit smoking weed. And a tuallty managged to sort of bring up the idea of skateboarding v(him teaching me to skate) with a coworker on my work shift I had tonight.

I felt good and proud today about the finally effortless quitting after months of trtying so.maybe it made it easier to talk to him. Either way my point is this. U havve identified the issue but you seem afraid to follow throufhf. Life is pain my friend.

You have to work thru this bukkshit our minds out on us. You can make friends. You f cfanq find something new. Fukkq these stupid Ass games dog do what's right for you! It comes Down to respect. We don't respew ourselves. We don't think we kan do this.

It's scary it's too hard. We make excuses for why it's okay to continue doing things the way we already were since.well shit dog. It's actually biology and psychology at this point. Our brains are just trying I survvivve. All it knows art an instinctual level is that SO FAR everything has worked out h caused We are still alive, so why do anything different? We haved to fifhtt thaty.

Dontt ggivves up. Itts fucking harrrd I KNOW. If you don't fmggivve a shit about yourf life.who will? Do something thayt makes you proud of yourrself. I'm also drunk. Fuck this fuckjjf broken phone screen. Thank Fuck Ford wordcorrrrecrion.

I cant break the cycle. My mental health has deteriorated along with my physical health. I've no desire to do anything but play this game. It's a severe problem. One that is destroying my life.

I have no motivation anymore. You're describing me, all this was true for me, and describing the friends I've met in the CGAA meetings. Listen to the of other gaming addicts in recovery and it's clear we've been where you are, but have found ways to change our lives around for the better. The lack of motivation is normal. Read up on the list of typical. You're not alone, not the first to try to climb out of the compulsive gaming pit.

Support is freely available, i hope you'll make use of it. Imagine you were to stop playing WoW and start playing Everquest instead.

You would have to start completely over at level 1. You would have no knowledge of the game or any friends. Yet would that not be preferable to you than having to just unplug completely from gaming?

When I quit I faced a somewhat similar dilemma. I had almost nothing built up outside of the games I devoted myself to. Then I started to look at life like a video game.

I focused on exercising initially and I follow a progression based regime from the bodyweightfitness sub. I see the progressions in it as achievements.

I now view life like a video game. The more skills I learn, aka achievements, the more powerful my character (me) is. I feel like a really shitty newb in the world right now, but every progression I make, every goal I match is my real life self leveling up. Of course you are going to be lonely if you quit and have nothing really because you invested all your life into WoW.

I am 28 years old and basically starting over. You are only 20 and have so much more time than me to set yourself on the right path. Start viewing yourself as one of your WoW characters. You are very weak and know almost nothing right now about the new game (real life) you are going to take up. So give it your all like in WoW and watch as you level up in life. It's been an amazing feeling for me so far and I hope you will feel it too someday! I'm in the exact same boat as you.

We know we have a problem, other people know we have a problem, and they're willing to help us. Help yourself.

Look at your mental health and ask: Do I feel this way because my life is truly shit, or is my life shit because I've invested so much into games? I'm 25 years old and I've bounced around and down so many paths in my life. College, girlfriends, jobs, living anywhere that I could as long as it had a dope internet connection I was set. If you took all the time you invested into games and put it towards something else, another hobby for example, how proficient do you think you'd be by now?

8000 hours into painting, 8000 hours into education? Shiiiiiit, 80 hours of something as simple as having a jog or doing a little workout would have a massive effect on both your mental and physical health. I used to justify my addiction by saying that 'time enjoyed is never wasted'. But truthfully, time is more precious than all the money in the world.

You can't put 'fucking wicked at WoW' on a resume. Your legacy stays on the computer. Your skill at WoW is an achievement. It was hard, you had to learn, you struggled, you overcame obstacles. But at the end of the day when you unplug, none of that shit is tangible. Quitting is going to be hard, but you take all that energy and drive and persistence you put into getting good at WoW, and find something real to drive towards. Give yourself something to show off in the real world.

People will see how hard you work and look up to you just the same as the little nooblets used to admire your epics and your skills in game. And as an added bonus, your real life skills will always be relevant. Leave the virtual memories, and go make some real ones.

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