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Hey everyone, So I actually did manage to stave off gaming for about 2 months around 1 year ago but then fell back into it for the past ~10 months. Looking to hit 90 days, and I'll journal my thoughts and chat with you on your own journals as well. Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow 👍 -
I realized today that in the Jack Dempsey book championship boxing. He said alcohol and cigarettes and late nights out weren’t considered bad. They weren’t scientifically researched then. He felt in his gut they weren’t good for him so he abstained. What I wonder is, are video games the same way? Are video games much like deep fried food and alcohol. Actually bad for people in ANY amount? Recent research indicates alcohol and deep fried food are bad for your health in any amount. Video games definitely have an overall harmful effect on me. Social media is something that also distracts, makes me lazy. But also makes me work harder sometimes so it’s maybe a neutral effect I am not sure. Maybe a slight negative is social media tbh. Detox is going well. I’m posting here, I’m putting games away with the intention that it be for good this time. Everything’s getting better. Things are hard and I feel that my mind must keep learning for optimal health. Just like my body needs consistent exercise and good nutrition. The negative effects on self esteem from social media feel kinda not worth it lol. Maybe we stay off that. Lots of good things to watch and read for me thankfully. Now things are calm enough in my life I can finally take naps. Calm down. I’d love to hit mma tonight but I’ve been tired. The right balance for me is, get 2-4 classes a week in. Keep trying for four per week. Eventually you’ll probably want to get from 4 to 6. Right now it’s 2-4. Yeah. Conserve some energy for it Ommmm The workouts are going good considering I’ve been draining myself for games recently. In a day or two I think I’ll start feeling more gas in the tank to go for it again. I had a mistake at work. I didn’t follow up via text for an appointment. Maybe I can type something generic like, “Hello Name, I have us down for 11am today. Is that accurate on your schedule?” Yes let’s just say that. It’s perfect. My swearings slowing down a lot now I’m not gaming. Fuck I’m so tired I need to rest -
Figure I’d re intro my self as it’s been years since I really posted here I am ZenYogi I wanted to change my name on here to ZenYogi @admin support? I think I tried to make a new account with that but don’t know where it went heh. I could be ZenYogii That’d be fine too Om Right so I was clean off games a good four years ish and relapsed then learned to moderate and be a functional gamer. Like going to bed in the 1030-1130 range with maybe 3 hours games a day. Sometimes more or less. But, fuck all that it needs to be gotten rid of for me. For me it’s a no go on game time. It just sucks the damn life right out of me like a leech on my thumbs on my neck as soon as I start playing as soon as I open a game. It starts to drain me. I find myself falling off on all my goals: financial, fitness, social and mental health, it all gets watered down. People, even my therapist tells me, “well you’re doing well overall. You have a good job, you’re saving money, you have good mental health and social life. You’re healthy etc.” But it’s not good enough for me. I’m not satisfied I’m not healthy as I can be I want to be my best self and thriving. Not just getting by at a better than average clip. I WANT TO EXCEL!!! I want to perform optimally for me. I want to be the best zen yogi I can be. I want to chase my paragons to be like my heroes who accomplished such heights who made the plays to keep moving forward. One step at a time and not plateau. Not settle for what other peoples standards were. But to fulfill the standards within their own hearts and souls -
Right gaming addiction. Let’s not sugar coat it. I can’t stop. As soon as I take one step, on baby step towards games. I find myself falling down a mountain and spraining my whole body at the bottom. Trapped in a creek of despair. Gaming 4+ hours a day, waking up with stress dreams. Just being a total mess. My game of choice always comes back. I uninstall I put together some days or even weeks before I relapse hard. Gaming is unavoidable. There is no hiding from its existence. No completed sanitization of the nation. Someone, a friend or co worker will mention their game play. Will invite you to play. Unless you isolate yourself completely and stop living your life. There is no escape from exposure, but there is an escape from addiction. The cycle. Of uninstalling, reinstalling, buying gaming equipment, selling gaming equipment. Doing well in life and being happy. Having a rough traumatic experience and relapsing due to lack of support . There in lies my answer; support. This forum. Other game quitters. It’s the only answer that’s ever worked for me. See hear read game quitters. Delete the games, lock away the controllers, hide the key from yourself somehow. Maybe even just throw away the key. You can always break apart the lockbox if you need to someday. It’ll keep it healthier…..let’s try locking them up and writing POST TO GAME QUITTERS on the box to remind you. When you wake up I realize how this post sounds as I’m just laying out my honest experiences recently after waking up at five am with nightmares. Also, please don’t worry too much I am in therapy have been for years. I am on medication and working to manage my symptoms I’m safe. Warnings: It has trauma in it. Lotta stress these days. I have a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder and I got hit in the back of the head the other day on accident. But that’s kinda been the icing on the stress cake. So I’ve been like having weird dreams, being out of sorts. It’s concerning I’ll be more careful from now on. I think I’ve always been really arrogant and that’s been my problem. Thinking I could quit games or moderate them on my own. Then falling apart. I’ll try to just focus on being more humble. Reading people’s journals. I was maybe gonna go to a gaming anonymous group. I’m so tired. It’s 520am. Those groups tend to be really scary sometimes but when I went to one of them the people seemed nice. I could feel that intense feeling where everyone was resisting the urge to game. I’m……I’m gonna put away the gaming stuff like in a lockbox I think. I’ll try to replace it with anime and manga. I already exercise so that’s good. I’d like to make my own food now too. Or just make it together with Hina so I can manage the calories. I have a really sensitive stomach which sometimes messes with me. Definitely going to not mess with social media as that’s kind of just a replacement addiction. Not a replacement activity :) Right, most importantly post here or go to the gaming anon meetings or both. That’ll keep you focused on game quitting. Alright. I had some bad dreams two nites now. Gonna try to journal them out here. warning I just remember being really hot and angry feeling. Feeling really mad at my mom. We were on a nice couch in a big fancy house together. Just like we always were. She was on my case about getting more tests, more accolades, more money. I told her I hated that she did that. That she wouldn’t try to help me go live on my own and leave the house for once. That she always kept me down and rained on my parade. I couldn’t ever feel happy or confident for two seconds before she’d criticize me. Bully me. She’d laugh, but it was never funny to me. Ask her to stop and she’d reply, “You’re just being too sensitive and insecure. You got no confidence. Not like your sister, she’s a warrior.” My sister would chime in telling me, “You’re not a real man.” Then they’d wonder why I didn’t want to spend time with them. I wasn’t yelling in the dream. I was just upset. Just mad at her. On the couch, nagging me to work harder when my mental health was falling apart. When adding another hour to the workload was just going to push me further into the depths of insanity. Of insomnia, depression, anxiety, delusions of grandeur, paranoid delusions of persecution. I don’t know what to do. I like reading and writing…..they’re nice. Sometimes they don’t seem to like me back though. I need strength training in the mornings and mindful minutes. It’s just limiting stressful activities really. I live on ten squares of life. So long as I stay on those squares I am okay. When I leave them I’m in trouble. Heh They’re the approved activities. Well that’s enough about me. I’ll try to keep writing out my dreams. It helps me stop the scary dreams. Also just stopping eating by 6 or 7pm. I already cut spicy foods. I’m just trying just trying . Hina would take care of me. I just hope I can stay mentally healthy and keep my line of work.
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Ommmmmmmm Right so as always if you’re gonna reply here. Please be positive, kind and supportive. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Save your tough love for the mirror. “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” -Marcus Aurelius Ommmmmmmm I’ve learned to do what I do and apologize less for it. That’s because people have been kind enough to not mind how I am. Or who I am. How I do things how I post and behave and communicate. I sought out those people those safe space. May this be one of those safe spaces. If anyone comes against my creation of this as a safe space well. I’m in charge here so whatever, I’ll handle it. Sighs. Deep breaths alright you got this man. Build yourself up. You’re gonna get up do your morning routine. Delete all your gaming stuff. Hide away the controllers and such in the cabinet above the fridge since it’s so hard to reach. Then just do your training shower nap eat high fiber diet. Ommmm foam roll meditate. Drink lots of water, Avoid bodybuilding supplements for now. They’re messing with your hydration it seems. Ommm don’t be afraid to say no to people to anyone no matter who they are. Even if you have to whisper it at first. “No thank you.” Is always a valid response and you can always change your mind if you’d like. Game quitting is easy so long as you keep posting here when you get urges and you stay focused on replacement behaviors/harm reduction. I see nothing wrong with green lighting watching anime until 9pm hard cut off time. If it goes past that you need to stop and maybe cut back on it. I’m not here to adhere to someone else’s idea of what’s ideal for me and my addictions management. I’m here to get to the next level of discipline. Of samurai quality living. Disciplined training, hard work, firm management of pleasure seeking. Of addiction prevention. I want to be the real life Goku. 15+ hours training per week. CrossFit, mma, hyper trophy. I’m at 11 hours right now and it’s tough, I need to cough up the games if I am to take the next step to 12 hours. One hour a week. Just one more. By the end of the year I can be in the 15-20 hours a week range. With enough training that I would be competent to compete in mma or bjj or Muay Thai. I just hope no one looks at me sideways if I show up to work busted up or see my girlfriend. It’s kind of like, my fear. That I’ll get banged up and lose my looks to the point that I’m kinda shunned by society. For cauliflower ear and scar tissue in the face. If you look at Steven Thompson or Michael venom page they have very normal looking faces. So I’m hoping with good ear care and defense in striking I’ll be safe to fight on for a long time. Probably got another 13 years in me that’s substantial and I want to make every year count.
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Have you gone through the 90 Day Detox and think you have some interesting lessons to share? Then how about writing a case study? A case study is longer and more detailed than a celebration post. It's a summary of your journey, as detailed as you want, in the format of a blog article (they are posted in the Case Study section of the main website linked above). You can write about what feels important to you, but ideally a case study should cover: - When did you first played video games? What brought you to them?* (What did you like about gaming the most: Challenge, Escape, Growth and Socialization. Or perhaps something else?) - How was your situation before video games? How did games influenced this situation? (Were you having trouble at school and games were useful to procrastinate, did you use them as a social activity with friends, etc.) - When did you first noticed you were playing too much? (Where would you draw that line between games being a fun pastime and games being essential to your normal functioning.) - What negative effects and consequences manifested into your life while/because of playing games? (Physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, professionally...) - When was the turning point and what was the trigger that led you to decide going through the Detox? (Was it related to finding out about Game Quitters, or content created by Game Quitters?) - What were the positive and negative sensations that you experienced DURING the Detox? What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them? What changes have you implemented to your lifestyle? (Or did you just abstain from games and did nothing else as some sort of experiment. Whatever your experience was, really.) - What were the positive and negative sensations that you experienced AFTER the Detox? How does your life look like now? Was the Detox a positive experience, or would you advise against it? (You can trash talk about us if we truly ruined your life (?)) - Overall, has your life improved during and after the Detox, stayed the same or worsen? (How has the Detox influenced in your current life?) Your story will help people that are also considering taking the Detox, raise awareness about video game addiction being a real thing (seriously, we still are at this stage...!) and help the research of people such as Dr. Daniel King, who made a study with us a while ago about the effects of temporal abstinence of video games in the brain and the addiction process. It may look as "things that just happened in your life", but your experience is actually really valuable. We're looking forward to learn about you! Have you just learned about Game Quitters and don't know what the Detox is, but have you been without games for 90 days or more? Check this video and feel free to write as well! You can submit your story here. If you have questions you can contact me (@Hitaru) by PM or mail (in my profile info)
