Functional_Addict

Day 3!: Ok day 3 was actually much better then i thought it would be. I was expecting strong cravings but it was less intense then i expected. I had some at the start of the day and now but during the day i was occupied with other stuff. I started the day with some youtube (not ideal i know but better then gaming right?) convincing myself to start working on the exam preperation was much easyer since the option of "well we could just game the whole day" was not there. So i just got to working with the occasional youtube break. At 2 pm i made a little lunch break and then contiued working on the exam preperation. At 5:30 pm i did another break and got up and took a little walk outside just to change up the day a bit. When i came back i got out the Cello and started playing to get back into it. At this point i didnt played for 2 Month and before that i played dayly but i stoped mainly because the gaming urge was just to hard to resist - i liked playing Cello but not as much as gaming ... feels realy good to play again. I was expecting a massive deterioration of my cello skills but it wasnt as bad i thought that was nice ?. I then graped the notes for Star Trek voyager and gave it a go - well it went okish the first time always sounds bad it will get better until the end of the week. I realized that the biggest loss of skill occured in the area of note reading i will grap a app for that tomorrow that should fix that. Then it was time for dinner while at it i also got a new chalorie counting app the last one was kind of meh not bad but it lacked some features i realy want. After that back to exam preperation until now(10:30 pm) iam now done with about 45% of the perperation for the first of the 2 exams cant remember when i did everything i planed on doing without stopping half way through and start gaming. Problems: -->So now its evening again and i could do with some relexation activitys that dont demand to much brain effort ( kind of exhausted after 7h of solide math) i will go with youtube and netflix like yesterday again since i have not found a viable alternative yet. --> I seem to struggle a bit with incoperating new activitys in my dayly routine to replace gaming that arnt just watching youtube. I basicly need a side activity for little breaks while doing exam prep and at the morning to wake up i might try reading for that tomorrow(at least for the weaking up part) [edit]: --> forgot something might a stupid problem but i have some youtube content i realy want to watch but that is to boring to just sit there and watch as is normly i watch this while playing a league aram or elite dangorous or something but this is no longer a option so i kind of need a activity were i can half hear half watch it while doing something else - i just dont know what that "something" is Weekly goals: - learning a new Cello piece (the star trek voyage them) ⬛ Progress was made today yey - Going skating atleast 2 times better 3 ⬜ No Progress here hmm maybe tomorrow but not sure yet there might not be time tomorrow - Doing the preperation for my last 2 exams in university ⬛ Drastic progress if i keep this up i will be done on thursday or friday - creating a resume for first post graduate applications ⬜ No real progress but i just got some zertificats today that i needed to wait for anyway so no big deal and exams have priority - Maybe some work on the Master Thesis ⬜ No Progress but this is optional this week anyway i might be able to ge something done on the weekend if exam prep speed is keept up

Who am i ? Wanne know the full story check the introduction i wrote: https://forum.gamequitters.com/index.php?/topic/7530-lets-try-to-get-more-out-of-life-that-this/ But for everyone that cant be bothered to read all that here is the TLDR: Currently writing my Master thesis , have life goals that need my full attention(Circumnavigation) and gaming takes to much time and energy and i cant just reduce it. So this is my 90-Day detox: Day 2: WTF Why do we start the journy on Day 2? Were is Day 1? Well i visited my parents this weekend and since i cant game there this is day 2(i just came back home to my appartment) when iam at my parents place i tend to reflect quite a bit. And this time i didnt just said to myself "aaah its not that bad i just game a little bit less next week" instead i punched into google "how to stop playing video games" and found this and the youtube channel. And i want the controll over gaming back. I dont neccerely want to quite gaming forever but i want the full controll back of how much i play and i want to be able to just stop if i want to stop. (sounds weird but i think you all know what i mean with this) If i decide after the 90 day detox gaming is something i still want to do a bit thats ok for me. But for the next 90 Days its cold turky. To be honest its already quite hard - normaly the first thing after comming back to my place is starting the pc and playing before i unpack all my stuff. I have a few ideas what i will do during the daytime but iam quite clueless what to do in the time from like 9pm to 1am. I guess i could read a bit but during the day i have to read quite a few scientific articals which makes reading as a relaxation activiy feel a bit like work. Not sure what i will do about that. For today Netflix and writing the forum introduction and the journal will wil have to do not ideal(especally netflix) but it will i just started and atleast its not gaming right? Gateful: No just no. This is not gone be a part my journal i am not a crack addict that murded someone and ruined his life i just play to much video games and this feels like stupid psyco overkill. Weekly goals: - not playing video games for a week( who would have seen that comming?) - learning a new Cello piece (the star trek voyage them) - Going skating atleast 2 times better 3 - Doing the preperation for my last 2 exams in university - creating a resume for first post graduate applications - Maybe some work on the Master Thesis 90 day detox goals: - 90 days without video games( or atlest with minimal relapses) - Finish or near finsh of the Master Thesis - apply for muliple jobs after graduation - Playing more Celllo - loose some weight( currently at 113 kg with 1.85 m)

Hi guys, (are there any girls here by the way? just curious) I am a addict I play video games whenever I can. But not all is lost the good thing is I am still a functional member of society. I am 27 and currently studying medical systems engineering (aka the guys that build MRI scanner and pacemakers) in Germany. This is my last semester at the university I did Bachelor already and I currently work on my Master thesis and it looks like it is going okish. So whats the problem? Well I can pull myself together for a curtain amount of time but it takes an incredible amount of will power every time and it feels like torture whenever I just learn for exams instead of game all day. The cravings are so strong nearly irresistible. And if something unexpected happens while I am already pulling myself together like a party invitation in the learning period for the exams everything crashes down. I cant do both because how would i be able to get my 6-8h of gaming in? I actually have a few activities that I like to do outside gaming. I learned Cello in my Beachlor degree and I like to go inline skating. But because the Master got more stressful i now drop those activities quite often to still be able to do everything for the university and get my gaming dose in. I don’t necessarily want do ban gaming from my life forever but at the moment it has the control over me and dictates what i can and can’t do. I need this control back and i need to eliminate those cravings. So I started the 90- Detox yesterday. What pushed me over the edge to start this? Two things happend in my life: 1. Before my Bachelor degree my life goal was that i wanted to make a career in science. But in my degree i found that i suck at doing science and its really unenjoyable. Sooo new life goals needed to be found. And i always had in my mind that i wanted to see a lot of the world and here is the new plan: Work 5 years, By a sailboat, Sail around the world. Crazy ? Maybe. But iam gone do it anyway. The problem is that aint gone get easy i have to learn a lot, make a lot of money and get quite a few new skills. And i just cant achieve this with 8 hours of gaming every day. So Gaming has to go. 2. My best friend just got married, he is also a big gamer and his now wife is very supportive of his gaming habit. Sounds perfect doesn’t it? He finished university 3 years early then me and his life looks now like this: He goes to a realitvly mediocre job, gets home, his wife makes dinner, they eat talk and she goes ant watches TV and he starts gaming (Pc is next to her) she makes him a few snacks and at some point he goes to bed. Repeat. Every day for the last 3 years. This horrifis the living shit out of me. I don’t want such a mediocre life i want to do and experience it to the fullest this just sucks and now they are married and this will go on for forever.