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Welcome to the forums, @Rude 🎉 This is my personal definition of an addiction: if gaming (or any other kind of activity, really) is preventing you from doing things you'd rather do, it's an addiction. One of the things that we generally recommend is to start your own daily journal. Some folks will read it and may follow up with you if you disappear (as has happened to me a few times). It's also a great long-term method for getting to the bottom of your addiction, what triggers it, and how to avoid it. And feel free to read other people's journals - you may find someone who's a good match.

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Pomodorro Lvl 2 (56/100) 
Sleep before 12am: 12 (longest previous streak: 4)
No phone in washroom 26/120
Umra resolutions: 11/90 Work Hours: 6:10 (10:50 this week) Yeah, so that sleep I was talking about? Totally happened yesterday right after I posted. I was so sleepy and I went and crashed for 3+ hours. I'm still not feeling 100%, but I think I can wait it out until Friday to get some extra rest. Clearly, my sleep schedule is not providing me sufficient rest (even though I'm sleeping close to 8 hours a night). I need to make changes. I think after Friday, I'll aim to sleep before 11:30pm. I have a feeling that extra 30 minutes is all I need, but let's see. The big challenge is going to be our upcoming trip to see my family. My family (especially my Mom) go to bed super late. But since I see them once/twice a year only, I really want to spend time with them, so I stay up too, but it totally destroys my sleep schedule. Over there, dawn is around 7:10am, so I have to be up ~6:45am at the latest. To get 8 hours of sleep, I need to be in bed by 10:45pm. That sounds highly unlikely, given my family lol.

Awesome! Free time is definitely a dangerous thing if you've got a tech addiction!

Hi Matt , well.done for pushing through on completing your post and well done for having the conversation around your mental state,  I remember having that discussion and it is an important first step. Have you done any toward planing in regards to filling your time ? 

Hi Warrick welcome to the detox, well done on what you have achieved so far, you have already made some big steps there, you should be proud that you have got off to a good start.