Online Gaming Addictions?!


Question: Online Gaming Addictions!?
Do you think this is a true form of addiction!. Why isn't there more help or at least a disclaimer on the package that says it could become habit forming!. I lost the past 3 years of my life to Blizzard's World of Warcraft!. Now I have to relearn how to deal with people in the "real" world all over again!. What are your thoughts on this crippling addiction!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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I have had the same problem before, with a Blizzard game no less!. I was addicted to Starcraft, and what i did to isolate myself from it was i sold my disks, and stopped playing it completely!. I found a hobby to keep my mind free from thoughts of Starcraft, and i decided to quit near a time when i knew it would be impossible to play it, which helps a lot!. I quit right when i had a vacation coming up, and i would be on an island with no computers for a month!. By the time i returned, i had no thoughts of Starcraft!. There are lots of good hobbies to keep your mind away!. Playing a musical instrument, writing, drawing, wood-carving, and sports are all good hobbies that keep ones mind away from the thing you are addicted to!. I hope this helps, and good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I think what is important here is that you feel you lost 3 years of your life to a video game!. Many other people have, too!. What are you going to do about it!? Buy a new game!? Say screw it and play more!? Or are you going to get outside and engage yourself in something that has meaning to you and others!. Instead of helping newbie's level, you could spend your time volunteering at the children's hospital or a soup kitchen!. Maybe find a job doing or learning something interesting to you!. The lesson is to engage yourself in the real world, the online world leaves you feeling empty!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

It's not addictive!. The nature of WoW and other online games does not promote addiction, like cigarettes or drugs or alcohol can!.

The addiction lies within the person!. The creators of WoW are not responsible!.

Your keyboard doesn't excrete heroin everytime you launch WoW, you know!.!.!. The addiction was within you, and your problem!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I think it is a form of addiction!. Many people i know have been playing games like that forever! but what you should do is maybe throw away all of your games and turn off your computer for a few weeks!. This should give you some time to get away!. Also, if this becomes to hard, limit your time you spend on the computer!. Keep decreasing every week or so!. Just try not to think about it and think about other things!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

learn that its just a game and not your entire world!. noone is to blame for your 3 year loss but you!. if you cant distinguish that life is more important that having an epicly geared 70, then you have the problem!. i just quit WoW after 8 months of casual play!. got to 70, had fun, quit!. the end!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Definately!. I wish I still had the report that I did for my psychology class last year!. I did it on gaming addictions!. But what I found was that people do go through the same psychological effects as alcoholics, and gamblers!.!.!.!.just with a different "drug!."Www@Answer-Health@Com





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