Malone Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Day 1 Uninstalled Skyrim. And 10 GB of Skyrim mods. Spent all night loading mods and their dependencies into mod manager, launching Skyrim Script Extender, and fixing bugs. Had two appointments with my personal trainer, but cancelled both. Body aches from sitting all night. I'm unemployed. This is unhealthy. This is why I need to quit gaming. Got Up: 11:30am Challenge Faced: Committing to deleting all instances of Skyrim Learned: Some things that feel good (gaming) are not worthwhile. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehondasc00py Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I was this close to posting an ultra lame skyrim joke with "adventurer" and "arrow" swapped out with "gamer" and "gaming detox" or something. For the benefit of us all I decided against it and just want to wish you all the best on the detox! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malone Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Hahaha thanks thehondasc00py! An arrow to the knee might stop adventuring in Skyrim, but won't stop gamers from playing Skyrim! Actual Day 1 I played games yesterday, so that was Day 0. This is Day 1. Somewhat productive day. Became slightly overwhelmed preparing for a job interview, so watched some 1.5 hours of Quill18 playing an early release of Civilization 6 Rise and Fall. Would like to find healthier outlets for stress than watching Youtube gaming videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malone Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Day 2 Experienced a bizarre job interview. The interviewers and I had fundamental differences on what was needed. Resisting the persistent urge to play Rise and Fall, which was released yesterday. Again seeking better diversions when stressed. Thinking about goals seems to work. Minor accomplishment: saw my personal trainer yesterday and today. Grateful for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitaru Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Welcome to the forum @Malone! Got any ideas on new things you'd like to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Adair Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 This video can help you: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malone Posted February 15, 2018 Author Share Posted February 15, 2018 Another Day 1 Thank you Cam and Hitaru for your time posting and support! Night of Sunday, Feb. 11, I felt extremely unsettled, like I had to take some kind of action, but didn't know why. My response was to download Civ IV: Rise and Fall overnight. And play it to the exclusion of everything else Monday and Tuesday. I binge like this perhaps twice a year, and on weekends when I'm employed. As I finally started to lose interest in Civ IV, another great game was released, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. And again I followed that game for much of Wednesday and Thursday. I think I'm finally back to normal. Trying to quit gaming is perhaps the most frightening thing I've done, because I'm not fully in control of myself. Thank you for your support. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Adair Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Can you describe more about feeling unsettled? What was going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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