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?Just be careful where you go, I used to live in South Africa, veeeerrrrry dangerous place lots of stories And i found a good bunch of videos on homeless people that changed my perspective on them. A lot of them had really horrible starts to life with family setting. And chose to go into drugs or alcohol to ease their emotional pain or cope. Then like us with out video games didn't know how to fill voids (coupled with a lot of mental damage from events) end up on the streets hopeless. If you you tube homeless stories anything by Rethink homelessness Jax and maketreks is really good (and sad). Fortunately some countries have government safety nets to save those who slip although America looks sad...i hope Canada isn't like that

?try calm.com It has a phone app that costs $50 a year. But the app is INCREDIBLE for learning/being guided/in general. Best $50 (besides the one i just spent on the gamer challenge <3 ) ever

? just got done watching the rejection ted talk, that must have been hella-scary. (and awesome job on it, serious props)

Day 5: Was too busy yesterday to post unfortunately. Atm i am still learning the basics in the coding about just how to bounce around code and figure out where i am (i plan on finishing that today :D) then getting onto the cool stuff. Finally found out the guide you guys were talking about i thought i had already purchased . After checking records and realizing i didn't i snapped it up. When i get a chance to breathe I'll have a read and hopefully do the 30 day challenge I had an urge to game the other day, but i realized that pretty quickly i was lacking direction/structured goals in different areas. So i took the day off to dedicate towards building goals and watched a documentary to relieve some of the interest in it. Documenatry was called Lost for life and was about teenagers who commited murders with interesting stories about their background. Definitely worth a watch but its sort of dark so might not be everybody's cuppa tea. Made me rethink the amount of stress it can take for somebody to crack can't be that large. And that small things help everybody. In order to understand everybody better in the family i wrote down their stresses and issues on their plate on a piece of paper. Then looked at one way i can make each of their lives easier, and maybe gain or learn a skill on the way. So to start with today i washed a completely un-necessary area of the house to help my mum who's stressed by a tonne of stuff out so she had less to worry about and something positive to make her happier. Father i took the time to have a long conversation with, and made him a few cups of tea and provide encouragement on his current work. Today i am looking to fill my room with inspirational people i particularly am impressed by in order to gain that extra energy i need at times The more i structure things/evaluate situations, the more i want to do them i tend to find so that constant self-evaluation of goals and achievements coupled with meditation is one killer combo . Important to do's: 2 more days till i can clear my steam account of its skins. Then change all the details on all accounts and try sell em. Change xbox 360 account details and sell console/games/account all in one go. Sell Vita/Ps4 and change account details. Finally read and start the 30 day challenge On a cool note i read that Cuba has a cure to lung cancer now and has had it for a few years. Yay humanity!

?I couldn't find it in downloads. Where is it? Although my life is pretty busy already. I don't know if i have the time to do anything more

Day 3 Today was pretty productive. I learned the basics of Windows Shell so now i can move around the code lines. Funny how after all these years gaming i didn't know what GUI meant (now i got a bunch of other Jargon to go with it) The short version: Directories are just another name for file/folder, Path = just the folder address, GUI = graphics user interface and CLI = Command line interface And the coding itself seems really straight forward and logical and sorta like a puzzle Managed to get through the daily tasks and have started waking up earlier and earlier. When i gamed i used to sleep 4am till like 1pm every day 9-11 hours generally. Now i am sleeping at midnight and waking up 8.30am (which is huge for me). One of the reasons that games played such a havoc on my life was that i would work till 1am playing poker. Then need to De-stress and unwind (pokers stressful) so i would do so playing CS:GO for an hour...which normally turned into 2-3. The blue light that the PC monitor emitted disrupted my melatonin production which is a key thing in the body for sleep. I thought i had insomnia because my mum gets it but turns out i was just a noob at structuring basics on the day Although for anybody who does use pc's a lot i do suggest Gunnar glasses (they supposedly limit or block the blue light) and flux so the screen brightness changes with long hours of work. I have never been so on top of my work on such a consistent basis <3 I organized a fishing day trip for a couple days from now, and for HabitRpg i have found out what i would like to eventually code in A way for the site to let you play around with the order of the tasks better instead of them flipping about, or adding a priority system where it can auto-sort them. How do people sign off on daily entries

Hey! These are my top 5 recommended books. I like reading them in this order: The Slight Edge by Jeff OlsonDaring Greatly by Bren

? I plan on picking up fishing and rock climbing (with different friends in each). #gettingbacktonature

Hi guys, I'm Ryan. I could rehash whats in my introduction post but i will just leave that Here if anybody wants a little more context. At the moment its the 26th of June (and i quit Wednesday). I've made progress but there's a few things i still have that will be challenging. 1) I have to sell all my steam counterstrike skins. They only become trade able after the 31st so I have to got fend off the urge to relapse. 2) I gotta either sell or give away the 3 steam accounts, an xbox 360, a ps4, a ps vita, and infinite games for all. I joined HabitRpG and am finding it quite fun Funnily enough before reading respawn there were a few things in my life i had just began introducing thanks to reading a lot of information of zenhabits.net so it won't be that drastic of a change in my life. 1) Meditation: I have just hit 7 days straight of 20 minutes a day and find this immensely helpful. The calmness and understanding it brings about how to listen to your body and mind, and understand what it needs and then constantly be changing as a person as a result of the self reflection is invaluable. 2) Diary writing: It gives me a way to manage my goals and see their progress. It puts my thoughts on paper and helps me sleep better at night knowing the next day i have already built a structure plan so i have less to worry about. 3) I have to pick up new habits to fill the void gaming left. I figure why not do it in the most beneficial/profitable long term way possible? I am going to learn coding (starting with python) in order to put some of my ideas into action in future. I already went to university (which admittedly i barely attended cause of poker and video games) but did learn a fair bit about the business world and marketing. Specially with poker my understanding of finances and business and management have all grown. A cool Video about Coding and why you should learn it My first goal is to eventually code something to give to Habit RPG so i can contribute in some way. 4) The second thing i want to pick up is learning about psychology. What makes us think the way we do, i know so little about my own problems it would be nice to figure out how to fix them and understand people better. I will aim to read about psychology at least once a day, even if its just a small article. 5) I have a mountain of books i bought but never read but really wanted to. Every night i will be reading for at least 30 minutes. At the moment im reading The science of Self-realization by his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Surprisingly my urge to game is quite low atm, i am not struggling at all. But I've been down this path before and i know its unlikely to last unless i solve the problems taking it away created. Anyway i am also making it a goal to update on here The community feel will just make quitting gaming all the more easy.

basically the main struggles are understanding the psychology behind it all. Once you understand the psychology its easier to understand how to cope with the problem. Then You can find a way to deal with the problem. Also the re spawn guide suggests a couple options to help structure your days that are pretty cool IL wait for you to find the Gems.

Welcome to the forums Marco and gratz on being game free so far

?What are the odds, your full of surprises lol

The processed sugar and fast food addiction dies down after a while of not having them too which is nice and then you don't even need to think it

?There's also websites on the internet that can teach you about the topic of 'getting girls' if you ever get worried.

Well said Zane . and the link about lobster syndrome was quite interesting. I was a lobster funnily enough in my job, until i broke out of it without knowing, but 100% true with the frustrations, depression and wanting nobody else to be happy.

Congratulations on quitting the cigarettes and alcohol. And your gaming addiction journey too, gratz on finding this self-relaization and taking the next step. If you put up a blog or journal post it here and you got a follow

I don't know who orchestrated this mass trolling. But why you feel this was worth your time is beyond me. Like actually, i don't get why. Here are people trying to change their lives for the better with an addiction you might not understand and your putting everybody down. Im not mad, just leave us to our space on the internet, there are many places already available for you to troll others, can you please go troll elsewhere. There are not many parts of the internet for gaming addiction, and some people actually need this.

Hi Marcus welcome, hopefully your accomplishments can provide insight to everybody else

My story might be similar to others but its a long one (There will be a TL;DR at the end). I began gaming at the age of 8 playing duke nuk'em 3d. I am now 23 and iv spent roughly 8 hours a day minimum playing, stretches of 16 hours frequently. Occasional all nighters. All my friends are gamers and its sucked up a lot of hours i could have spent on health, social and working. So the level of my addiction sort of speaks volumes with my list of gaming accomplishments/accounts/hours spent/money spent. I've got.... 3 steam accounts (with 250+ games on each) -Have spent close to 3k hours on CS:GO, and have completed every game on every account. -I have an xbox 360 w/ gamerscore of 60k and a huge library of games which i used to be OCD about getting 100% in things with. -I have a ps4/ps3/ps2/ps1/Vita which iv collectively poured thousands of hours into as well as thousands of dollars -I used to grind mmorpg's such as runescape/MU online/Guildwars/Kingdom of loathing (thousands of hours, guildwars 2k hours alone, runescape had level 103 w/ multiple level 90 stats/Kingdom of loathing i was in the top 10 richest in the game for a few months. I can't even own a cellphone game without losing grip on control...even face-book games become too much... Part of poker involves the constant search for optimization of life and self-help. So i finally confronted my problems of weed addiction, gaming addiction, no structure in my days, my lack of understanding of socializing and my own emotions and its lead me here. I've tried quitting before, i even posted about it on a website for poker players about my video game addiction. I did manage to quit for a couple months, but like always the gaming thing would return. I never filled the void, and i am very introverted so the idea of doing things that push my comfort limits does scare me. Yesterday after spending another $200 on games and counterstrike go skins i decided enough was enough after i saw the ted talk video (and it generally moved me, i struggled with those problems and when the audience laugh it angered me). I decided i will do everything i can. So i bought the guide, gave away 60 mill on my runescape account and deleted all quest items, messaged support asking for a lifetime ban. Uninstalled steam and any game related stuff on my pc. Now i've got ps4/ps3/ps2/ps1/Vita games/accessories/consoles to get rid of. And an xbox 360 w/ a lot of stuff too and a gamecube/gameboy. Im thinking of selling these but honestly part of me wants to see them burning...knowing that those consoles can never wreck another persons life. I hate what gaming's done to me and how many times i have failed quitting. I am hoping this community is what i need to make it. My intention of saying all my wrong doings isn't some way of dick swinging to say i am a bigger addict then X or Y. (i am sure im not that abnormal here, since we all are mutually here for the same reasons). It's to confess them, front up and move on. It seems most people who get told i have a gaming addiction just feel its not real. The support net is hard to find... Anyways, over the next comming months i expect myself to be a regular poster here so i am eager to meet the community. Hi guys, im Ryan. TL;DR Im addicted, i am Ryan, i am here for community and help.