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Hi Alan,
Just my personal experience here, but not watching Twitch was a dealbreaker for me. In my previous attemps I would allow myself to watch Twitch and all the attempts ended after a week or two with this exact thought: "I am watching someone play this game. I might as well play it myself." Then play for a while and then try to quit again and repeat all this.

How's the Intelligent Investor progressing? Its been about 3 years since I read it but I still remember it definitely wasn't the most engaging investing book I've read.

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@Random hey, yes I'm going to work on not watching twitch. I guess I will just have to turn off twitch notifications. As far as the reading goes I have literally just started and I'm not even through chapter 1 yet. I'm kindof a slow reader.

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Day 8

Hey

It's already day 8. Today was productive for the amount of time I had. I did watch a little twitch again but I think I'm going to quit watching twitch for now. I need to find better things to do. This is a super late journal, and I have to wake up at 7 in the morning tomorrow. It's nearly 2pm but I think this can serve as a good mental exercise to get me out of bed at the time I want to be. It would allow me to have more control of my life which is what I want. I feel like being strong mentally is important for situations like this one. I'm happy for all of your support.

youTube day 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQTlzu4Szs

Alan

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It helped me a lot when I substituted watching streams with writing here and basically writing.

This is a temporary escape for me from my ordinary duties and also I see a constant measurable growth with the amount of words/posts written! :)

And when I'm writing on the Forum it's more social, because some people will respond to my posts.

See? I'm fulfilling almost every needs in only one productive activity which I treat as a substitution to games.

Greetings, Mad Pharmacist

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Day 0

Okay, I haven't posted in a while, and the reason is I was quite busy and found a lot to do. I unfortunately didn't successfully complete the 90 day detox because some friends called me up and wanted to play so I did. In the past couple months I've noticed that the amount of time I have spent gaming has been going up quite a lot and I want to put a stop to that. I also think that I originally wasn't as serious as I should have been at approaching this issue. I uninstalled League of Legends and I vow to complete my 90 day detox.

Alan

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Welcome back! You can do it this time. I think it wasn't so bad because you were quite busy and had a lot to do. You can make it this time!

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Hello!

I want only to say. Dont be like that guys which always find excuses to play videogames, porn drugs etc. Go 100%! It liberating. Be awaken hurts but same time it's liberating.

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Day 1-3

Hey guys, just wanted to give an update. These first few days have been okay. There were a couple moments here and there where I wanted to play but overall I didn't have much urge to play them. I still watch people play games on YouTube sometimes but I don't see much of a problem with that because it is mainly for my own entertainment. I'm probably going to go about journaling once every 3-4 days because I'm trying to focus on keeping myself busy so I don't have to worry about games.

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Oh man you are more disciplined then me if watching gaming videos doesn't give you the urge. I cant do all the enablers of watching videos, twitch, forums, etc. because it causes me to start doing game analysis in trying to figure out how to do things better in the game which then leads to me wanting to try it out as a proof of concept. Good luck! Remember there is a monster on your shoulder whispering excuses in your ear and rationalizing to you why doing certain things isn't "much of a problem" or "entertainment". At least that's how I visualize it when I get the urge to do gaming related things. He's perched right there and smiling an evil sympathetic smile with every reasonable excuse to get me closer to where I don't want to be. Be strong and tell that little monster to shut the hell up! Lol! 

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@Strkr3 I never really feel an urge to play games when I watch others play. Especially when it is not the game itself but the person comentating who is actually funny. I do try to stay away from twitch though because watching others play on twitch is kinda just wasting your time and I would understand how after a while you would get bored and want to play yourself. However, for YouTube it is more than just watching them play that gets me entertained. That is why I still plan on watching the content that Lolhounds, darkmane, and singed420 put out.

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Day 4-6

Dang, I can't believe it's already day 6. Life without games for me really has been quite fufilling. I felt like when I was playing games I was trying to fill some void. That void was the time I spent not doing anything. I feel in way more control of my daily activities now that games are out of the way and I hope I can keep this progress going till the end.

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@Mettermrck So far I've tried to fill it with reading and exercise. The books I'm currently reading right now are A Breifer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and The Language of God by Francis Collins. I find Stephen Hawkins book to be absolutely fascinating at explaining the broad scope of the universe. The Language of God is a book about a scientist that wishes to do his science in an honest manner while at the same time maintaining his belief in God. I find this book very good at explaining  the nature of human beings and what our beliefs should come to from that nature. Another thing I do is breakdance. I'm currently trying to learn flares, windmills, and handhops and hopefully though hard work I can acheive that goal. Another thing that kind of fills the void but I'm sort of reluctant to do is study for the GRE. It's always been a dream of mine to go to grad school and hopefully I can get a good GRE score to get into a good grad program where I plan on studying physics. I also am interning at Argonne National Laboratory this summer which often takes up most of my day where I am studying monochrameters and their properties using ideas like the Bragg condition and dynamical diffraction theory (I don't know what they are either). I hope that answers your question.

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Day 0

Alright, this is going to be a tough post because i failed and relapsed. Im gonna try not to take it too hard on myself because I feel like this is a learning experience. Maybe I just saw others play and got really excited. I noticed that it is really hard for me to control myself when I have that urge to play games. I hope some of you could relate. I have a few ideas of what I can do to control this urge but I want to know your guys thoughts. What do you guys do in the moment when you have that feeling to play games? I think this is one of the biggest barriers to quitting games that I am facing right now.

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Umm.. good question.

I have funny ways to deal with cravings... It's not a perfect way to prevent me from gaming, but sometimes it works.

There are a few friends that don't like the game I played. I ask them to play with me. Quite simple, isn't it? I can hear every, and lots of reasons why they don't like to play, with couple of times of rejection, so that makes me exhausted to persuade them. After this procedure, I just lose my cravings, because at some point, I begin to think the game I wanted to play as an empty thing, which is not worthwhile to invest my precious time in.

Another way to deal with cravings is thinking about the amount of quests that I have to do in games. When I think about this, I begin to realize that I also have tons of things to do in the real life, and I get to choose the real life quests, not the imaginary ones.

 

I also had relapsed, but now it's ok. I felt really sad and depressed at the moment, but now I'm getting better and better everyday, so it's not a huge problem if you believe you can do it this time.

 

And it's very important to write journals everyday, even if you fail to be productive. I think it's so crucial because the moment I relapsed was the time I quit writing journal. Just come here and write about your mistakes. It's ok to share some experience from failures. These days, I think the medias, they are only interested in success stories, but I think learning from failures should be a very important topics to share.

Lastly, if you have cravings and if you are about to relapse, don't be embarrassed to come here and share your stories. Writing and reading some posts in this forum is much more productive than gaming. I promise you that if I had came here consistently, 30 days ago, I wouldn't have relapsed at that time. I was so dumb and I just didn't do any school things(including some final exams.... quite embarrassing isn't it?) Just come here and talk to people until your cravings disappear.

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Day 1

Alright, this is my official Day 1. I slacked off a bit and kept playing games unfortunately but now I'm for real. I'm quitting. I'm going to start meditating and hopefully I will learn to control myself around games. Today, I haven't felt the urge yet to play games and hopefully I won't get that urge as much in th is upcoming week.

 

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Good luck on your second attempt! I learned so much from my first try, let's succeed this time. 

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