how do i beat my game addiction?

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Candy Borowski 4 Sep @ 4:11pm

i am too addicted to video games. I have no moderation. I really need to lock in since I am at university. I should study and grind grades rather than grind achievements for a game i hate anyways.

by time Im done with lectures, i just have the urge to go game and then once I game, It is already like 2am and I have done nothing productive with myself and I continue the same cycle of just feeling sorry for myself and making self promises I dont keep.

I must stop the addiction start treating school like my next big grind to 100%.

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Thegamingnerd4525 4 Sep @ 4:13pm

Gamify your school work, that's what I did at least

DarkCrystalMethod 4 Sep @ 4:16pm

One way to ruin gaming is to make a job out of it.
Start by identifying which games are actually beatable with a conclusion/resolution/etc and turn your focus onto those games.
Then plan what skill trees and story plot elements need to happen so that you can face the final boss, etc. Put those items on a calendar and stick to it. Then finish the game and start analyzing the next game.
After about 3 of these you should feel the need to step away from gaming for at least a month and fill your mind with other stuff(like college courses).
After your finals use gaming as a reward for yourself.

gallantSirKnight 4 Sep @ 4:19pm

don't let yourself try new games until one is 100%, you may find that your interest in that game will wane a bit and you will be able to make time for other stuff

OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle 4 Sep @ 4:19pm

Same way you beat everything else.
Kill the final boss.
If you're unsure what that is, kill everything on the screen until there stop being things on the screen

Ice Robertson 4 Sep @ 4:22pm

I don't think you two understand his addiction, Like with my addiction and playing counter strike and team fortress 2.

Keeping track of kills and stuff, getting rewards like cases and weapons, it's all part of the addiction and companies like valve WANT you to be addicted.

You could dump your items but i always re buy them wasting money, doesn't even help uninstalling or even removing the games from your account.

it's bad to be this way. (i don't think i helped neither)

DarkCrystalMethod 4 Sep @ 4:23pm

Parents use this one weird trick to stop a gaming addiction.
Its called a gaming guillotine.
Just put the chord in the hole and let it chop.

Of course since controllers are wireless these days its probably easier to just hide the controllers.

cherry cola 🌸 4 Sep @ 4:25pm

you don't

Azza ☠ 4 Sep @ 4:25pm

Rewards yourself. Stop trying to remove what you enjoy doing... but rather make it a benefit for other things you might not. If you get such and such done, then you get so many hours to game upon. Live should be balanced.

Last edited by Azza ☠; 4 Sep @ 4:25pm

craigsters 4 Sep @ 4:26pm

you embrace it and enjoy it for what it is and screw those that don't like it

Fake 4 Sep @ 4:35pm

Gamify stock trading.

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Chaosolous 4 Sep @ 4:43pm

Alternate hands when one gets tired.

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bad_fur_day1 4 Sep @ 5:00pm

I can only set a time limit to do work for an hour or whatever and then your free to do what you like, consistently and slowly progressing and you'll feel less sorry for yourself.

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lol 4 Sep @ 5:01pm

Think of your future, lock in for a few years then bag a good career, good jobs offer free time

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tom foolery 4 Sep @ 5:19pm

Put a password on Steam. Or rather, make it so the password is always required to launch Steam.

Obviously you know the password, so it won't actually stop you, but it will force you to think about it what you're doing. It's a small barrier that makes it so you have to consciously decide that you do want to play games. Just a brief little moment where you might think, "you know what, not today".

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