Computer addiction!! Help needed!!!?!

Computer addiction!! Help needed!!!?

I am addicted to computer's. I know what I am doing is extremely harmful to my studies and it has made it's mark already, I have been doing horribly in my test's in college. From the morning till late at night, except for lunch n dinner i am almost always in front of it doing something or the other, movies, games, surfing, chatting etc etc. Even if there is nothing to do, i have to do something on the comp. I despise reading, I have started hating studies and even though i know I am letting myself get destroyed i cant help it!! I have to become successful in life but I have clearly become the worst in class!! I was very much an above average student in the 1st semester and now have deteriorated to someone who fails to clear 4 papers!!!! Please tell me what to do! As soon as i sit in front of the com all my guilt or feelings of correcting myself just vanish!! I go to sleep at 3 in the morning almost everyday!! Some1 tell me what to do!! I used to be athletic too!!

*sigh*. I'm going to sum this up as life is hard. It has many moments of happiness (more if you work at making them), but overall, you have to work to achieve everything. This kind of obsession (it's NOT an addiction) comes of the fact that you're stressed out. You're finding life hard, and hiding behind a computer screen and playing games and chatting is soooo easy. And you feel like your accomplishing something. And to some degree you are. You're having fun.
But you're overdoing it. Maybe you're not cut out or ready for college. Maybe you need to be doing something else. But until you come to terms with the fact that life IS hard, you'll always behave this way with something.
I'd say you should first learn how to relax PROPERLY. And that means with friends or family, people, in person. Great comfort comes from real human contact, not the type you're getting on a computer. That's just a form of fantasy.
Then try to get a grip on your entering the real world (some people can't do this, get therapy if necessary). But calling it an addiction or whatnot will just make it easier to do. You don't need excuses, you need action!!! I'm saying this as someone who really, really understands what your going through!!!