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  1. Also wanting to jump on the back of tirEdOrange, I also want to reiterate how this belief in other avenues of making gaming more functional or productive in your life can be a trap. I did this, it became an excuse, a way to justify spending all my time gaming, because now I pretended it was for the purpose of refining myself to stream games. I started recording the games that I played telling myself that I was on the up, that this would make it different, but it was pretty easy to see how hollow this reasoning was. I was just looking to avoid having to focus on my state of life, and this idea that I would be a streamer and make money, was just a baseless attempt to redirect my vision from accepting I was doing exactly the same as before, gaming and for long periods. So yes it is important JSmith to provide people with options, but equally important for those reading it to be honest with themselves, and not be latching onto anything that postpones that realisation that they are continuing their addiction, and postponing their attempts to stop gaming, and have a fulfilling life outside gaming.
  2. Hi all, Really didn't expect to start this course today, was just trying to think for a moment about what I desperately want in my life, with having little idea, and stumbled upon this. I am 27 from Victoria in Australia. I have been gaming since maybe 5, started with a friend on his SNES. Always kind of used gaming as an outlet and coping mechanism, but 8 years ago had some mental health issues that flipped my world, and gaming became more than ever a way to escape and treat myself. I don't really have the issue of losing friends over quitting gaming, which I guess is really lucky, but that is because none of my friends in real life gamed, and sadly I never was able to make any friends with online gaming. I don't appear like a typical gamer, I look like a surfer, but that image left me feeling ostracized from both the outdoorsy type (by being a gamer) and the gaming community (not being a "legit" gamer). Over time I have had aspirations and they have all more or less failed, relapsing into gaming, or gaming solidly for a junk of time so I can't even remember what I had previously been thinking of aspiring too. These aspirations some times required me to buy equipment or courses, essentially trying to bribe myself out from gaming and into a more fulfilling life. All to no avail. Normally I would be too conscientious to do this, writing to a forum community about myself, but hell I'm throwing myself in the deep end, because I need this really bad. In my real life I still have my small group of friends from schooling, but we are not the type to contact each other much. So here's hoping to chatting to some interesting and funny people on the forum here. Sorry if this introduction is a bit drawn out and self deprecating. Anyways once again hello to everyone, keen to be on board, and I'm excited for the future with the community here. Thanks from Australia
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