2) What replacement activities did you start with to keep you from gaming?

3) Recommended sleep/wake up times?

4) What books do you all recommend for self-improvement?

Now that I think about it, swimming is a bit like flying and it doesn't require much pressure on the legs. That may be an option 🙂 

I recently got the idea that i might suffer from a pretty big fear of failure. I think im a perfectionist, but not in a good way, i worry too much about everything i do, and every assignment. To the point were it's hurting my ability to even start on projects.

Have any of you felt this way, and/or do you know a good way to work on it?

I have gone off games completely for many years. But, when I choose what I want to do with my time, it is always sport competitions that can be traumatic such as football or rock climbing. 

At one point I selected a highly competitive football league where I took a hard fall. The mental trauma from the injury lingered for a year. I don't know why, I noticed other mates don't get the mental fatigue that I do.

I now realize I need work or sport with risks but I overreact to failure. According to the psychological field, will selection of real life risk lead to a recovery or a worsening of the mental state?

If @Cam Adair can refer to information on this point I’d be very glad.

How do you make exercise more fun? Like make exercise feel less mundane and something enjoyable? 
 

Before you ask 

1.I have go to gym before, listen music, did the cycles, swimming (which I enjoyed), and tried some gym classes there were not for me. Most of these I felt were boring. 

And I not talking about an downloading an app and relying on that either something non electronic.

1.For example how would you make sit-ups more fun? Or Lunges? Or walking? 
 

I did event one game that has me walking in stores 

1.Rule 1: park at the furthest space in a shopping complex (stay safe).

2.Rule 2: You can’t go into any of your favorite stores

3.Rule 3: Walk the whole complete and finding interesting stores you want to go to.

4.Rule 5 go into those interesting stores.

I seem to like geocaching, dancing. 
Seems when I driving now I did an I spy game to keep focused to. 

I tried hiking a couple of times but too in shape to do it. 
 

So what some ways you have made excerise for more fun and feel less mundane because be nice to see some suggestions. Thanks. 

I am in a nerd high school because I wanted to challenge myself. Now I think my life is just boring because I am surrounded by nerds who only care about their GPA and test scores. Many of the nerds have no sense of humor at all and I feel like I am one of the few neurotypical and normal people in my class. This is why I like to hang out with the less study-orientated people at my school like my teammates in the swim team and water polo. I enjoy swimming and racing and I love the thrill of competition. I just don't like grinding it out at school. What should I do? Is this normal for me?

Can someone share knowledge on this. I just keep encountering the “if people would have treated me better” obstacle. This sort of obstacle makes me lose sight of my responsibilities and leads to a fall in the quality of my work. What sort of actions can I take to show myself I haven’t lost. 
 

I got healed in the past when i was criticized for my failures and had day to day improvement. My current colleague burns his time on social media and only commends me for what is an average quality. Never has he highlighted mistakes to me in a proper way.
 

Ever since this started happening, I , for lack of things to worry about, started identifying things that aren’t good, but I can do nothing about. Getting angry, excusing myself and shirking responsibility. I understand that Im losing skills, so I have to switch to a more challenging role.

I uninstalled the mmo from my computer.  I didn't even say goodbye to my guild either.  I just uninstalled.

I feel weird.  Maybe I just feel like it's really the end.  I think I needed to sever the ties with people online.  That's what was keeping me in the game.  

I need to process.  

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But overall, I just feel like I don't have to deal with it anymore.  It was becoming a burden to login and do those game tasks repetitively.  Unending useless tasks online.  I feel free from that burden and free from other people's expectations in a game.  I wanted to rage quit the guild so that I wouldn't ever go back.  But I didn't.  I just left my characters there on SWTOR to rot.  I didn't invest that much time into them, so I don't feel like I've really lost much.  And I didn't really know the kin members that well either, no real 'friendships' resulted from my game time.  I was a quiet person, and didn't say much in the chat room or on their voice channels.  

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I just feel weird.  How did you feel when you quit all games?  I appreciate the feedback, especially about how long this odd feeling will last?  

One thing I keep hearing from recovering gaming addicts, is that they replaced gaming with another hobby
Since doomscrolling took so much of my time, I made a list with different types of activities (social, resting, mental challenge and explore) to satisfy my boredom.
What I want to achieve with getting rid of my addiction, is to focus on academics. 

However, I quit 25 days ago and my productivity (studying) hasn't really increased..

Should I work on replacing Scrolling with Studying? How can I do that? I already try to "gamify" studying but I'm so distracted by cravings and irritability...

Thank you all for being here, on this forum :)

My names Dan and I’m a gameaholic, it’s been 6 days since my last sesh.

I’ve been gaming since I was old enough to hold a controller, and now in my mid-30’s with two young daughters and my marriage on the brink, I decided it was time to accept that I have a gaming addiction. Accepting that as truth has taken me nearly 10 years, it always used to be a regulated habit but over the last decade it’s become an obsession. I sold my Switch and all my games earlier this week, big moment!

My question is; should I stop watching videos about gaming too? I haven’t been playing but have found myself watching videos about gaming on YouTube, but is this not really quitting as I’m still thinking about gaming?

Interested in peoples thoughts.

Before I quite gaming, I was a massive RPG fan with notable favourites such as Skyrim, Xenoblade Chronicles, The Legend of Zelda, Fable, and Mass Effect - as well as my all time favourite KOTOR 1 & 2. I will miss playing these games but ultimately I’ve already given them too much of my life, there’s so much more out there.

Anyway, great to be here - looking forward to contributing and following everyone’s journey! Game Quitters For Life! 

Also I have been addicted to a game called Mobile legends bang bang ( mlbb) due to depression. I can't afford therapy because how costly it is and i don't have job to support myself. And the game has been integrated into my life because how many friends i made and the game is really f2p. How do I quit the game?

I've been addicted for 13 years or a bit more and started therapy for my gaming addiction around 2 years ago. I was clean for a while then relapsed two times. I am also in therapy for GAD and MD. 

What I wanted to ask is whether or not you folks neglected your body hygiene aswell? 

I stopped brushing my teeth and didn't shower as regularly as I used to for years. 

I'm slowly getting back into brushing my teeth atleast once a day (my dentist said that's the minimum), but it seems like I often can't keep up the "streak" and make it a habit. 

How do all of you approach this? Are you trying to stay away from anything game related as much as possible? If so, what kind of strategy do you use when dealing with friends and family?

   I have gotten back into gaming a few years ago after a break of a couple of decades.  It is a long story but I had gift points that could only be redeemed for prizes so I got my first game system with the points and started gaming again.  I did take the quiz but have a couple of other questions.  I will ask the second question in another topic as I think people usually address topics better with separate posts. 

1) What is the feeling of addiction?  I do feel I want to play a lot but I don't know if that is from addiction or just wanting to play a fun game?  I am not sure if I should stop or if games are just a fun thing to do.  Though to be honest with you I have a weird combination of wanting to play and also boredom with the selection of games that causes me to search for better games