FedererMagic

Hi Well for me personally, what helped me to reduce the amount of play time and eventually not game for a period of time, was the sudden realization how my life was going to look, if I kept gaming in my free time every day. I visualized myself in like 3-4 years and if I saw myself still playing video games every day in this future, I would be really disappointed. When I stopped with games in the beginning, it wasn't so difficult to not play, because it was really clear to me why I shouldn't be playing. After a couple of months, it go harder because I was slowly forgetting why it was so important to not game anymore. So a good tip here is to always remind yourself every day why you are not playing games anymore . The biggest difference I noticed in this period, was that I wasn't living on automatic pilot anymore. I became much more aware of my life and my environment and the things I wanted to do. When I was just gaming, I didn't even think about most of these things and every day was just the same. Yeah totally agree with browsing the internet. If you stop gaming, there's a lot of free time you get in return and if you can't fill that up, it's easy to start browsing the internet. I hope I can find a better replacement in the future, but I find it not so bad as the game addiction. You eventually get bored with browsing the internet, but with gaming there's no end to it.

Hello Mark Good luck with the 90 DAY-detox! I also just started with this and I hope we can both finish it . I could really relate to the procrastinating on the internet. The last half year I didn't game much anymore, but just browsing the internet happened more frequently. Instead of this, I'm also trying to find new ways to replace this and find something else I can do like reading, music, shows/movies, ... . If you find something good, let it know because it might be something I could also utilize .

Hello everyone As the title states, I'm 24 years old and I live in Belgium. Right now I'm in the final semester of my university, where I study Applied Psychology and after this I'm going to start working. I joined this community because I feel addicted to Hearthstone and watching to much video's on youtube. I learned to know this game by friends in university, and at first it started innocent by just playing sometimes a couple of hours for fun. But after a while I started getting better in the game, and I began to watch some streams online and look up strategy sites. The amount I was playing kept increasing, and I took it to seriously. During last summer I realized that I was having a problem with this game, when I stumbled upon the article of Cam. I decided then to quit this game forever and it managed to last for a long time. I didn't play any games for about 6 months, which I'm still proud about . In the beginning I also didn't watch any streams, but after a month or two, I sometimes watched a stream on youtube. I know now that this wasn't the best idea, as it probably contributed to my small relapse. I had my relapse a couple of days ago, when I played Hearthstone for a couple of hours. I decided to play again after this long time, because I lost 2 tennis matches during the weekend, which I could have won. Tennis is important for me and this experience left me with feelings of dissappointement, frustration and sadness. I'm quite happy that it was only a small relapse and that I decided to get more involved in this community and let I help me to achieve my goal forever. I will try to post comments and contributions, so I can support other people in their journey. I think I will also start with the 90 Day Detox and besides games, I will aso include youtube in this detox, as it is an important trigger for me. So to end this post, I hope this community can help me to get rid of gaming in my life and I also hope I can give something back by supporting other people. See you around and good luck everyone !