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  1. Music also keeps me really focused during doing some things at the moment or just boosts my energy and motivation, I appreciate it at the moment more than usual. So I totally feel you there!
  2. Hey Sol, also welcome here from me ! Have you ever thought about learning to code? It is really mentally-engaging and once you get through the first basic steps the amount of possibilities are sheer endless (programming simple games like good-old "snake" for example or this clap-sensor-thingy where you have to clap to turn off/on lights) There are so many cool projects. Also there are a lot of sites in the internet that teach it, maybe you want to give it a look. I like that you wanna trade your gaming for a healthy and sporty lifestyle, I'm doing the same at the moment and it feels really satisfying. Let's do this!!
  3. ...aaaaand it became a freaking super long text. I'm sorry Needed to get this of my chest
  4. ... and 5 weeks later I declined the order, got my account permabanned because of it and invested them into Respawn. Best investment ever and I'm happy to be here. It's great to get so much support and courage, just by looking at other threads, so you can make it through this whole thing. I'm a 24 years old student and live in Germany.That being said let's get started with how I got so addicted with Videogames, so you guys get to know a little bit who I am Since I was little I was always sporty and ambitious. At this time, gaming was just a nice thing to do in my free time and it kept being like this for a long time until... I was around the age of 18, I just ended school and was able to go to university. I wasn't sure what exactly I wanted to study, but it didn't matter at this time because my goals were set in sports anyway and luckily I achieved them in exact that year, so I also didn't had to bother about it too much. The next years I got very Isolated though and became quite depressive due to many failing and a lot of rejection, this went on for 2 years So after a total of 2 years I suddenly switched from an ambitious young athlete that is about to study to a Guy just gaming 24/7, achieving nothing with it. Being in my depressive state I filled the void with more gaming and since I was used to stress I was gaming 20h per day and only slept when I really had to. I knew this couldn't go on forever, so I decided to study. So I reorganized myself and did the best I could, but halfway-through the semester I started to game all day long again. I saw at some point that I needed to do some sports to fill out the void and that's what I did. After 2 Semester, thinking I could manage my gaming this time, I gave it another try and failed once again. And well this is how it went on. I had many "tries" to cut off gaming and many relapses and actually I thought I am fine with it during the last year, but 3 Months ago I started to play again another competitive online game with my brother and just. couldn't. stop. I fucked up another semester because of it. 3 Years of studying and I achieved nothing so far, not a single class, and it's enough. I really need to get this going and gaming is something that is hindering me every time, sabotaging me socialising again and again and again. I started doing sports for fun and to fill the void, but I got really ambitious again and finally have a goal. Also I know now what I wanna do, so that's why I want to study. I think my depression is gone and I finally have a life purpose again to start my new life, but I guess I have to Respawn and get rid of this bad habit from my darker times first before I can successfully do that Well,... with that all being said: I'm on day 5 of the 90Day Detox and it feels like I'm going crazy. I have Headaches and feel either extremly unethusiastic and sleep most of the time or extremly hyped and can't stop the urge of gaming, so I try to be outside or work more. I was already thinking 20 times about just dropping the 90 Day Detox and only play for a little while. So typical behaviour of addicts. It's insane. I rather thought of Videogame addiction being a character flaw than a serious addiction, but going cold turkey during a gaming phase seeing all the symptoms that other addicts usually have ... just scares me. I'm glad I am now here and hopefully have people to support me to get through all of this, I think that's what I lacked the most during my last years to succesfully go towards my next life goals. Thank you guys and Cam for creating this, you're awesome Going to do some sports now, see you soon!
  5. It's true that people nowadays can make money by entertaining others via stream- or videoplatforms but ... Even Entertainers or Pro-player sit in front of their games and spend hours and hours editing, analysing, preparing and and and.... They don't just jump from game to game, from match to match just trying to suffocate the time that would otherwise be filled with boredom or tasks that they don't like to do as much as gaming. While they surely spend a lot of time gaming they also spend a lot of time for improving their Quality(by analysing, preparing etc.), while most people that are here suffered or still suffer from the amount of time they lose with gaming, the Quantity. If you have a good Idea or feel like it is something for you, sure, feel free to try it but making a break and getting a clear view is almost essential for someone if he wants to be successful and not just waste his time. But after all, we are talking here about a serious addiction, it changes the way your brain works and therefore the way you behave and that is something terrifying. So everyone should, at least once, do a 90-day Detox just to get a better view of himself and the whole thing he is thinking and planning about. (I mean it's not like your skills are going to vanish anyway just because you stopped for 90-days.) Also keep in mind that if you plan to stream or something similar that even after you did the Detox (or during) you can still seriously Relapse and fall for the Quantity instead of improving the Quality and all the time and effort you put in it would be wasted, more or less. Even if you would try to do it different this time, once you got addicted to something you can get addicted to it again, so this is a dangerous game(got it? 'cause it's all about games?haha...... sry). And you would need to go through it all again to get to point zero. Nevertheless, you are right saying that his statement isn't completly true, just wanted to point out this all a little bit more, but I guess as long as Iquitlongago doesn't fall back for bad habits he got this going for him. Also hi and thanks for coming here to motivate others : )
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