Hi everyone,
My name is Adrian and I just started reading the book myself and came here to try out this method of saying "hi" mentioned in the REspawn book.
It kinda of feels like going to AA meetings and i'm trying to get used with the idea :)
I think it's an interesting approach, I'm just curious how much it would help me :D , or how much this helped someone else.
What I can tell you about myself is that I'm 29 years old, working in IT ( Infrastructure support not programming / developing, although i'm forcing myself to get into Python programming ) as a Linux Infrastructure Engineer and I have been playing games since I was a child, but it was never too serious or too addictive.
I always played a bit of CS GO, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed games etc etc, but I never actually had issues with gaming , I was fine with not playing for a few days or even an entire week.
Until Path of Exile 2 was launched in december 2024...that's what was unhealthy for me...
I played it since it launched like a maniac and I got to the point where I wasn't taking good care of me and I started having fights with my girlfiend with which I'm in a relationship for almost a decade now.
I stopped playing games entirely in May 2025 after a big fight with my girlfriend and after noticing how much weight I lost and I struggled a lot with my decision to quit gaming, I wanted to play and all I was thinking was just about gaming.
Two weeks ago I relapsed and I played Last Epoch thinking it won't be so damaging as POE 2 was but I was wrong, somehow I squeezed another 8 hours of gaming and of course now I feel bad about myself and I unisntalled the game after I came clean about it to my girlfriend (i hid playing , and she caught wind of this; in may i made her swear she will stop me when she'll see me playing again, so she kept her promise :)) , i don't know why I asked her to stop me from playing, what was in my mind ? :)))) hahaha )
My main problem is that ever since I stopped playing in may 2025, up until I relapsed two weeks ago, I never any drive/motivation to continue studying and preparing for new certifications so I can further my IT career.
I was pretty occupied with job interviews and I recently just started a new job with a new company, but somehow I still don't get motivated to study more ( I'm relly trying to get into python programming ) and this is exactly how I discovered the Game Quitters youtube channel, which in turn pointed me to the website and the Respawn
I found Respawnand I'm trying to see if this would help me :D
Did it help you guys in any way?
I like to think about myself that I'm a person who can never get an addiction, but judging by how I felt for the past months , I thought it's worth it to introduce myself here.
Anyway, good luck to everyone and I'm happy to meet you and join the forum :)
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