NEW VIDEO: I Quit MMOs and THIS Happened
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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 .
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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 !
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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.