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    Guilt – the Vicious Cycle 🔁 ⭕️

    in General Discussion

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    Hello, I am here to discuss my problem of Guilt (when I relapse). 
     

    Guilt generally has a negative effect on me (i.e., makes me play more). For example, a week or two before, I had a relapse because I thought that ‘I was already in control.’ However, unfortunately I ended up playing for a few hours, at around 12. This DIDN’T impede me. Instead, I thought ‘this day is already full of games’ and gamed more. You see, this made me more guilty and I just gamed to forget it. 
     

    I also abandoned my Gamequitters account because it made me feel bad. 
     

    So, I think that I should try and forgive myself and start anew – pick up my hobbies again. Is that correct or should I use a different strategy?

    Getting Better At Managing Cravings!

    in Celebrate

    Posted

    Yes, I think that self-deception and playing due to stress is a huge part of why it is so hard to stop. You really need to say to yourself when you are in a craving—or even relapsed—stop 🛑. Why am I playing this game? What good does this do me? Why am I wasting my time? 
    I think that you are dealing very well with this. Sometimes, I relapse and I say to myself ok this day is done for nothing I can do about it just wait until tomorrow . But this is a bad mindset that will just turn into a vicious cycle. So often, just forgive yourself, and strive to do better in the future. 
     

    Hope you achieve your goal 🙂 ! 
     

    P.S. I think that I kind of just wasted an hour scrolling through forums in gamequitters. 🤯

    1347 Days Without Gaming

    in Celebrate

    Posted

    Hello Ikar, Congratulations on such an astounding, miraculous, fabulous, wonderful, amazing achievement! 
    I actually thought at the start that you only quit on days 1, 3, 4 and 7 😂 

     

    Anyway, it is pretty inspiring for a newcomer like me to see how much your life has improved. I have been – yes let’s face it – horribly, abhorrently, disgustingly, disgracefully addicted to gaming. I wasted my childhood on it. Now I am wasting my life, but I think that I can improve 😄 

    So simply your achievement makes me quite happy and I hope I can trace your footsteps. 
    Thanks for sharing and I hope you can achieve more!

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    Breaking out of brain jail for 90 days (actually)

    in Daily Journals

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    Hi everybody 🙂 

    I have tried to do this for quite a few times but I’ve always failed on the first day 😨 

    However, I am convinced that I can do it this time 😄 

    Starting tomorrow, I will stop watching videos, gaming and also no staring into space if the first two are done. They waste huge amounts of my time (screen time check: around 10 hours!) and they don’t even do anything. I will replace them with my hobbies (chess, sports, music, cooking, running, meditating, etc.) and work. 
    Next time I am in a craving I might do one of the hobbies! I think that this will probably solve my life forever. 

     

    I will think of day 1 as being the best day of my life!

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    Can’t even go through 1 day.

    in Ask the Community

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    Hello everybody, I’m a gamer who loves gaming because of escapism, building my online personality, and my gaming friends. I’ve recently tried to quit, but I’m having a hard time. 
     

    Sometimes when I have a long work day I can quit for the day and then a few more days, but when the workload is less, I have a problem. I can maybe play no games for the morning, but then I play twice as much in the afternoon—then I play even more the next day 😞 

     

    Fortunately, when I can abstain for 24 hours straight, I tend to get less temptation after (though I have relapsed a LOT). However, this time I am determined for no relapse. 
     

    Does anyone maybe know a method that could help me through 1 day? For example, should I distract myself? Have a rest during a craving?

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    Relapsing is a pain ;-;

    in Relapse

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    3 days before, I decided to go on a ninety day detox. But yesterday I broke it again—sometimes I just feel like gaming is fine when it takes up half of my day.

     

    I just do nothing and games in the day because it feels good, but in the end, I just feel really guilty instead. I can’t convince myself that it is bad when my computer is nearby. 
     

    Is there a method for even just temporarily delaying a craving?

    I’m new

    in Start Here & Introduction

    Posted

    Hello guys, 

     

    I am a new member 😄

    So basically I play too much games and I want to quit but I cannot find the motivation. 
    I often betray my promises. For example, this morning I said to myself “NO games today,” but now I’m playing as usual. This is a vicious circle because now I don’t even trust MYSELF. 
     

    I hope that this website will be useful: I have seen many people find their life, and I want to do the same! 
     

    sorry for my terrible post,

     

    ME

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