I gave up playing video games completely. I still occasionally log on this website and play online games, but they are a lot different than video games and I am not addicted to flash games like I was to video games. So anyway, let me give the back story. I was really addicted to video games. Like seriously affecting my life addicted. I wasn't one of those people who you hear about online who wouldn't get up to do anything for days, but I was pretty much playing them 24/7. So come December of '11 I gave them up (7 months ago). One day I just decided that I wasn't going to play them anymore and I stopped. I haven't had any problems until now.
Since I am not as busy now that school is done I have a lot of downtime. Which means that I can't stop thinking about them. I swear this past week has been the worst. I have tried to play them so many times but I have (fortunately) stopped myself. I traded in most of my games, but I was a PC gamer so I kept a vast majority of them (and they're on Steam).
Has anyone had any experiences like mine? I would really appreciate some feedback/advice as to what I can do right now to stop this. I don't want to play any because I'm worried that if I start I won't be able to stop and I've come really far thus far.
I didn't realize I'd be clicking on such a serious debate when coming into this thread...
My take...if you feel like giving up video games is best for you and you are happy with that, then more power to ya
As for me, yeah I can get pretty addicted, but if I need to stop for some time then I will. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to not play video games when you have them turned off and you start doing other things
