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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 -
Om Just staying off it. Staying off it. I chatted with Erik the other day. He said he’s been spotty at MMA just weed and gaming taking him back out. I might refer him to this site if he keeps giving into his demons. Told him I just journal anime manga and read now. As well as of course mma and fitness which happily take up lots of time. Anyways if I’m being honest I don’t love being on this site posting. It just don’t feel good to me for some reason. On the plus side tho I love how it makes it easy for me to stop gaming. So, I guess I’ll just post as much as I have to to stay off that shit. Otherwise I’m fucked. Gaming = fucked for me. There’s no fixing it. There’s no fixing the part of my brain that gets addicted to gaming soon as I start. So, whatever. May it get easier for me to post here
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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. -
I've always wanted to quit games since a long time ago and I finally bit the bullet and bought Cam's Respawn course. It was very helpful. It was all going quite well and it still is to some extent. I have quit games for 30 days now. However, 17 days ago, I fractured my right foot and so I could no longer run or play normal sports anymore. Therefore, I felt like relapsing since even though it technically wasn't "real", I could run or jump in video games. Thankfully, one sport that doesn't put too much stress on my foot is swimming. I was wondering if anyone else had any other ideas other than swimming? I've tried weightlifting with my upper body too and that felt good. -
How do you bounce back after a physical injury? I really enjoyed running when I was healthy because it felt like flying, even if just for moments at a time. However, now I'm recovering from an injury, it will take roughly 6 more weeks to heal and run again. And I wanted to replicate that feeling through gaming. In games, I can fly and jump around as much as I want without fear of injury. How do you cope if you injured yourself physically? I tried weightlifting training my upper body and while that felt nice, I feel like my heart rate didn't go up as much as it would doing cardio. I could I guess go on a helicopter ride, parachute, paraglide or travel but that might be a bit expensive. Now that I think about it, swimming is a bit like flying and it doesn't require much pressure on the legs. That may be an option 🙂
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I did not see this question asked before so I decided to ask here since something I struggle with. How do you make exercise more fun? Like make exercise feel less mundane and something enjoyable? Before you ask 1.I have go to gym before, listen music, did the cycles, swimming (which I enjoyed), and tried some gym classes there were not for me. Most of these I felt were boring. And I not talking about an downloading an app and relying on that either something non electronic. 1.For example how would you make sit-ups more fun? Or Lunges? Or walking? I did event one game that has me walking in stores 1.Rule 1: park at the furthest space in a shopping complex (stay safe). 2.Rule 2: You can’t go into any of your favorite stores 3.Rule 3: Walk the whole complete and finding interesting stores you want to go to. 4.Rule 5 go into those interesting stores. I seem to like geocaching, dancing. Seems when I driving now I did an I spy game to keep focused to. I tried hiking a couple of times but too in shape to do it. So what some ways you have made excerise for more fun and feel less mundane because be nice to see some suggestions. Thanks. -
I quit games a couple weeks ago and my Steam accounts are in the process of being deleted. EGS account is already deleted. I am currently separated from my family and in the next few days I may end up having a lot of time on my hands. I hope to be back home in the next few weeks or months. Gaming could be a good escape to help destress and recoup, but im worried that if I start down that road that I'll be consumed for a while to numb the pain, as was my previous lifestyle. I started learning FL Studio but havent had much time to work on it lately and fear that the learning curve will deter me from continuing. I have been watching more senseless YT lately too that needs to be curbed. FL Studio tutorials have been helpful to keep me learning. I have been reading a lot more which is good- to an extent. It's also another form of escape and distraction for me, though it does encourage me to write- which I avoid at all costs cuz I'm terrified of writing and that what i will write will be no good. I know it doesnt matter and i need to just WRITE but I have difficulty moving past that. Im writing this journal entry so i dont look for some escape right now, or maybe it is a form of escape cuz i dont want to pray right now. I dont have my laptop atm so gaming isn't really an option, but i'll have it later today. I can go to an Anytime Fitness gym if i want to for the next couple days while i have the car, which i think i might do. Ive been going with a friend for a couple momths. I'll have to go by myself but i think i can manage that. I did that a couple weeks ago. Im staying at a friends for a couple days and gaming has always been a go-to for us. So im not sure if he will want to and/or if i should. I kind of need a distraction right now. Ive prayed for a bit but im losing strength presently and when my friend and I will be home together later today we might want to play something. Idk. I just kind of need a distraction... i know i should keep going to Jesus but Im feeling pretty worn out. Vors, signing off. -
Hello, My clean date is 11/25/19. This is My Story. It’s 11/14/19 and I decided to recommit to quit today after just thirty minutes of gaming. I was having a hard time dealing with the fact that I’m 31 and single. I’ve wanted to be stable with someone forever so it’s dismaying for me. I just feel like it’s really difficult for me to find someone. I have a job but haven’t saved much money. I’m kind of thin and don’t have the best skin. And I have schizoaffective disorder. That’s a combination of depression and schizophrenia. It means I’m at risk for getting depressed and sometimes have delusions that people are out to get me. My therapist recommended me to a group for people who are chronically mentally ill because I was continually having suicidal ideation for months while working with her. I’ve really got to continue with that group. Anyways. Things didn’t workout with a couple of romantic prospects and I got pretty down. Then I was playing a game and realized. “Playing isn’t making me feel better. It’s making me feel worse.” That led me back on here and now I’m adding to the forums. I've never been an online poster, I don’t even use social media. But for some reason this site has given me the power to quit gaming when I felt completely hopeless. When I get paid I’m thinking I’ll try to complete the respawn guide. If you read my intro you know I’ve been on vacation trying to quit again. It’s hard, it hurts and I’m not really sure what my identity is. “Who am I?” Is a question I’m trying to answer now. I am a Christian. I workout, I practice yoga and mindfulness. I love to read, especially the Bible. I love my family and even though it’s challenging for me to get along with them sometimes. I keep trying. I’m a counselor and I hope to become a licensed therapist some day. I used to be a gaming addict. I just feel like my whole life is at risk when I play a game for even a second. It’s a pretty intense reality, but I think it’s true for any gaming addict. The only solution for me is to stop gaming for life. Sincerely, Erik
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Hello (again), It has been almost 3 months since my last post and I had my biggest relapse yet. Just before the school started (no more online classes) I got really depressed to the point where I couldn’t find motivation for anything anymore. I thought maybe playing one game for a few hours could help my mood.... Well I was wrong! I got back into a game called Planetside 2 (a very grindy game) where I somehow still had an account with hundreds of hours on it. I got addicted again immediatly and until the school started I didn‘t even leave the house once. And then school didn‘t really make things better. Because I was way to lazy to learn during lockdown, I had to learn all of the stuff about 1 day before each exam. That was one hell of a lot of stress. To cope with the stress I played everytime I got a chance and only started to learn at night (luckily my grades ended up being pretty good ) Hundreds of hours wasted on games later It feels like I have flushed all my progress down the drain. I have to start over completely. I deleted every tiny gaming account I had left (except a few I couldn‘t) and I‘m up for a fresh restart. I really want to start enjoying the progress, that was a big problem for me all the time. I‘m just too much used to having instant gratification instead of focusing on long term results, when something didn‘t work in a few days I already got frustrated. I hope i can be more patient this time. I‘m motivated to start again, going to keep you guys updated! -
Like many other people here, I am addicted to gaming. It's something that has affected me for years, and wasted away countless hours of my life along with thousands of dollars. It's costed me so many relationships and opportunities, to the point where I'm no longer truly young (26 in 2021) and yet haven't achieved much of anything in my life. I've tried many, many times to quit. Sometimes I lasted for just a few days, sometimes several months, but ultimately the siren call of gaming always drew me back, screwing me over and undoing all the positive progress I worked so hard to build. On the surface my life honestly isn't too bad. 2020 was a bad year for many people, but it was pretty great for me. I moved out of my mom's place, got a job, and started working full time to take care of myself. I recently went back to school full time as well, and am looking forward to graduating in February with a 4.0 GPA and credentials that will allow me to work in an industry that I'm passionate about. And I have an awesome girlfriend who has stuck with me through some truly tough times. So why am I trying to quit gaming now? Because while I'm doing enough to get by, I know I'm falling so far short of my full potential. My room is a mess. My body and mind have both become incredibly weak from years of sedentary living. Most importantly, I have so many dreams that I want to achieve, and the opportunity to do so diminishes with each passing day, as I piss away my free time playing games and watching TV. I want to get fit, travel the world, make a lot of friends, and be involved in my community. I want to have a job that doesn't just allow me to get by, but that allows me to truly make a difference in the world. I know I can reach every single one of these goals, but I also know that it won't be possible unless I start growing up and leaving gaming behind. 2020 was a great year, but here's to 2021 being an even better one. Cheers. -
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Hello everyone! Some of you definitely know me because I'm a member of the Discord chat under the same name (my previous nickname - Farant). For those who don't - my name is Vera, I'm 25 years old, female, from Russia. My English isn't particularly great, so don't mind my mistakes, please. I felt the need to start journaling after something bad happened in my personal life just yesterday. I've been journaling for more than 10 years on paper, so I know the drill. I'm afraid to touch my journal right now, I'll get back to it later when I'm ready. I've been a gaming addict for several years, abandoned gaming and the internet entirely for a couple of months, but it didn't really help a lot. Games were my escape from reality. I think I started thinking about it seriously last spring, became familiar with GameQuitters on Youtube. I used to play very niche online game with the toxic community, servers that died every now and then, the game was very addictive. I quit only when I got really angry at myself for wasting so much time on nothing. As time went on, I've joined Discord, did about 40 days out of 90, relapsed multiple times and eventually decided I want to play, but only one game because of my boyfriend. But the game gave me strong motion sickness, I didn't like it and I already deleted it, so I have nothing on my hard drive. I enjoy keeping an aquarium, knitting, programming, reading, journaling (obviously). I’m into Stoicism, I’m far from perfect but I’m using every opportunity to learn more and apply it in my life. I can’t say my life is empty, but I feel empty right now. I have the chance to turn it 180 degrees. I decided I’ll go to the gym once again and just try to be social, let it be the first step. It will help me hold on and not give in to depression right away. I’ve also asked my friend to go to the cinema with me when the new How to train your dragon comes out. The more I reach out to people, the more I realize I have friends I can count on. So here I am, day one. I’ve prepared things I need for the gym, tried to eat (not very successful, but better than nothing) and it’s time to go to sleep. -
Day # 1 I have my 6th sem exams in 9 days and I didn't study anything and I just wanted to play dota 24/7 I realized how much i have changed after i discovered online gaming and how little i care about things and how i stopped socializing , so i decided to change and uninstalled my games and i will start going running from tomorrow. PS: I have never written anything outside exams and i suck at it . -
Never in my life would I expect to find myself on a forum like this but. I guess life truly has no roadmap. I'd normally use an Alias but...seeing as how that usually ends up, I'll keep this personal and use my Real Name only and the names of those if permission if given and I apologize if it's hard to read. I tend awful when writing from the heart at times. With that out of the way, let me introduce myself. I'm Giancarlo. A Highschool Junior In the Big City who's trying to crawl his way out to freedom after realizing what gaming is doing, I started off on PS2 But slowly transitioned to other platforms and stuck as a multi-platformed gamer. I got into gaming at an early age since I lived in a bad neighborhood and my parents feared the worst. I was autistic and back then was often bullied and targeted...so I was kept in a small safe haven of the Nintendo Gamecube and PlayStation 2. The Nights of NSX and Simpsons Home And Run, happy memories of youth and killing time until My Uncle picked me up to visit my grandmother or playing against my cousins until dinner time! It was a time when gaming was that. A Simple game to kill time and then put down. But that's not where my story takes it dark turn. That happens sometime around middle school. This was when my hobby started to turn into the addiction it once was. It was when I was finally allowed to go online and interact with the world. This was the PS3 Era. When Bo1 and CoD MW2 Were the Games to have and own. I was this pudgy and F A T. Kid Growing up, so I was often bullied and left alone. at the time. My Parents finally decided to put the internet into the house for work purposes and by looking up videos online hooked my PS3 Online and Got a Headset from my cousin and soon I was on a fast track to talking and making friends. It felt...nice. Finally being able to hold an actual conversation with someone outside of my Special Ed Classes. Talking about common interests and having good laughs over the smallest and dumbest things...It helped my escape my brutal life in school. My Parents were naturally concerned but my father got into tech and supported it...from 5th Grade to 8th. It was Video Games Every Night and Day. Talking to the Same Peeps and finally feeling greatful. Then...I started to make them my priority. After All. It was just a simple algebra assignment. What's one little missing HW. Thing is. They tend to stack when you look at the long term. Little did I know the first stages were setting in. I became irritable when the internet was down, I stopped leaving the house and just scootering around in the park. I became a couch pillow and liked that way until high school started. I'll skip 9th and 10th Year as they were much of the same but worse...It nearly costed me to be held back and lose my position within my cohort. 11th Grade Year. I found what I thought was fucking impossible. A Girl who actually liked me...for me. I learned alot about putting up a front but...when I was with her. I didn't want to mask up and shield. I wanted to be a naked mind for her, just as she was for me but...gaming after so many years took its toll, I was socially recluse and often ghosted when we chatted on discord. Usually paying attention to a War Thunder Match or CS:GO Match, I was doing what had been done on to me...and little did I know at the time that I was hurting her. I let my internet persona take the lead and act like this giant Brochado, when she loved my sensitive and intelligent side that came and went in flashes. She eventually left me after I caused her "Stress" but we remain close friends. It wasn't until the last few months that I started to realize that I needed to lose the systems as I had bigger dreams. I found a school I wanted to go to (USNA!) but My grades after years of gaming, hold me back and after a heavy conversation with my Ex. I realized something... A Decade in my life was coming back to bite me with no punches pulled...My Safezone was really my Gas Chamber. I was poisoned and living in my own reality instead of being apart of the real world...the world with her, the world where we watched movies, the World where I left and explored New York City. I lived in a Virutal World. Devoid of Life. I need Help. I know what I want out of life...and I don't want to cross the Rubicon and become a shell... I want to fight this and finally be free. -
Hey guys, My routine in life isn't super efficient at the moment and by reflecting on what worked in the past I figured out that journaling was one of the best things I could do. I don't game at all anymore, but I don't know any other forums like this, so if it's okay to post on here I'd gladly use it! My life as it stands today Not too healthy -> Medicine for Acne (only 3 days left) and not working out that often / lost some weight. I have my own company -> VelzenMedia (marketing company) I'm judging other people too much, because I see myself in them. And I don't like myself right now Bad sleeping cycle / habits. Where I want to be in 90 days More energy, strenght and healthy eating habits again. VelzenMedia @ 3 clients paying me each 1000 euro's +. Not judging other people. Talking in terms of other people's interests and making people smile ? Less entertainment / internet / social media. Only use it for growth. Better sleeping cycle / habits. Where I want to be at 25 years old Extremely fit, energized and healthy. Successfull companies helping people all over the world. Be a millionaire, but don't buy things to show off. Re-investing all the money to provide for myself long-term. I want to be the one who makes entertainment. Not the one who consumes it. These are my current targets. It all starts with this 90 day challenge in which I want to take back my health, energy and obsession. I'll be posting once a day to summarize my day and efficiency. If you don't see me posting anymore it means I've quit and that I'm a talker not a do-er. How am I going to succeed? -> Planning, planning, planning. I believe that to be my keystone habit..thumb.png.914389b75ad5971678650b36b64cf829.png)
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