Ive stopped gaming.

Ive recently stopped gaming...Well, only and hour or so in the weekend. A major thing from going from basicly 7 hours a day to 0. I was a total gaming addict. I wasnt happy with my life. So I decided to change it.

Its amazing how my life has changed. Im happier now. Im doing better at school. Im healthier. I have more friends. People like me more. I feel more positive about myself. I now participate in sport and other social activites.

It's quite ironic how I once read about a course trying to make people stop being addicts and become more like this. And I was mocking them. Now I have basicly gone there way, and proved myself wrong.
Its pretty amazing.

Some may admire me. Some may hate me. Some here might call me a "noob". But whatever you think about my change of life, I am much happier and more positive. This doesnt mean I wont visit. I will still spend about 20 minutes a day checking email and popping up from time to time here. But as for gaming only about an hour, ONLY on weekends. Which means I have much more of a social life.

I know many of you here lead healthy and social lives away from a PC. And I know many here spend 17 hours a day gaming. I just felt I would like to share how much stopping gaming can change one's life.

Thanks for reading this. :smile:

If you want a journal you can get a free one at LiveJournal.com or something like that.

I don't care how harsh this will sound: stop spamming the boards with threads. That or change what you're saying. Ask a question at the very least. I mean, come on. The content doesn't matter, since you posed no discussion.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Yup..... that sounded harsh. :dorky:

People can be addicted to anything. Congradulations on recognizing your problems.

Now... as Crono suggested, maybe pose a good discussion spawning question related to your issue?

stop spamming the boards with threads.

I do agree that this is a bit of a 1-way thread, but I don't see any thread spam? Two threads on this page is all I see, and one on the next page.

7 hours a day is a lot.

But anyways. How long ago was this decision made? Curious because of the way you write about it like it's an epiphany and at the same time you say that you gained new friends, got healthier, improved at school and got a social life. I think you're either assuming that some of those things are going to happen even if they haven't yet, or you're glorifying the story a little bit, because for all of those things to happen... it takes a little while.

Honestly, I have to agree with Crono. It's a little harsh, but it's the truth. Thanks for, um, letting us know that you're now happy... I think this is the perfect thing for a blog or journal or diary entry, but this is a discussion forum. I guess if you somehow worked this into a question or discussion like Finger suggested it'd technically be more relevant. I personally don't see too much to discuss, TBH.

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@ spamming: Jimmi's thread creation rate isn't excessive, but.. [began to type a listing of his recent threads here, but never mind] - you can sum it up with the fact that it seems like about one in three threads of his are really worth looking at... see "recently fought" (fighting is coooooool... right? Right?), "your avatar" (not AtM's long thread, but Jimmi's duplicate)...

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midkay said:
But anyways. How long ago was this decision made? Curious because of the way you write about it like it's an epiphany and at the same time you say that you gained new friends, got healthier, improved at school and got a social life. I think you're either assuming that some of those things are going to happen even if they haven't yet, or you're glorifying the story a little bit, because for all of those things to happen... it takes a little while.

I was wondering this myself.

Addicted to Morphine said:
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<div class="quotetext">But anyways. How long ago was this decision made? Curious because of the way you write about it like it's an epiphany and at the same time you say that you gained new friends, got healthier, improved at school and got a social life. I think you're either assuming that some of those things are going to happen even if they haven't yet, or you're glorifying the story a little bit, because for all of those things to happen... it takes a little while.

I was wondering this myself.</div></div>

me too. if you have had no social life, you will not simply get it by saying "i'll game less". A social life grows on you by being open-minded towards it, and saying yes to your friends' suggestions to go to the pub/party, and not refusing for game time's sake. You cannot force this imo, it's more of a gradual shift

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

no mini-mod then? :rolleyes:

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i eat paint

I'd say there are more off-topic posts on this page... Everyone can imagine the "Try it for yourself and tell if it helped!". It doesn't need to be posted IMO.

7 hours a day? That's... a lot.
I've been sick for the last few days and started playing with a SNES emulator on my apple laptop quite a lot (emulators are the only way to get decent games to run on the ibook). It was fun and all but it reminded me how easily gaming can eat up time.

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