You need to get out of your comfort zone in order to archieve things. report. No-fap is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal stupid though, it's fighting nature, videogames though are an unnatural distortion, porn is too but I don't believe it's that bad anyway. Alright, I've bit the bullet. Everyday you wake up, try to do that, and once you've mastered it (and you do it everyday), and on flossing your teeth. [–]camerondare3578 days 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children). I don't recommend the pure willpower approach (aka "white-knuckling"). Which game would you choose? Motivation is a spark, an idea, something that gets you to start a new activity or follow up on a new idea. [–]camerondare3578 days 5 points6 points7 points 5 years ago (2 children). Those won't be fun. On No-Fap they say it takes 30 days to refresh your system (whatever that means). 4 months just seem like a long time with no real improvement.. Just bored out of my mind watching daily vlogs and stuff instead because i dont function as a social person. One year after I had left school my Japanese level still wasn’t good enough to get approved in the exam. If you have asked yourself this question, then the answer to it is often found behind the reason why you asked yourself this question in the first place. homework? REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 25165 on r2-app-0455a2cc00fe93812 at 2020-12-24 01:08:07.567130+00:00 running 6abf2be country code: US. [–]Miguelinileugim 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children), Fascinating, thanks for telling me all of that! It was extremely difficult for me at first, partly because once I quit gaming and started doing a decent job avoiding all of my other escapist behaviors, I began needing to deal with all of the stuff my addiction had kept me from noticing the whole time. ), I’m surrounded by a great group of friends who inspire me. Going to a friends house seems like good advice, except their friends are likely also playing video games, so now you are just making the problem worse, and limiting the time you play never works at all. It opened up a lot of time and energy to do other things with. But just wondering, exactly how many weeks or months until your cravings stopped and simple things like reading a book became entertaining again? If we engage our mind in something for a long time every day, it … I hope all goes well for you. :D, [–]TheLoneGreyWolf992 days 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (7 children), It certainly doesn't happen just because you stop doing something, it just allows for a new opportunity. Personally, I experience games as an addiction, so what alcohol is to an alcoholic, video games of all kinds are to me. These two habits in particular are like a strong foundation in your life that you can use to start adding other things to. (DJing is one of my biggest passions now. etc. I’ve traveled all around the world. I've wanted to start my own business for a while now, so I checked up on Elon Musk (he started his own business to say the least). Stop Playing Video Games. These are all things that go through my mind now. If you’re looking for recommendations, we have you covered. Given you have the chance to go into a video game, what would you do to ensure the most resources for yourself? That is literally where I started! I sit in the front, I talk to my teacher a lot, and I have a really great time (while learning, of course.) At what age did you stop playing video games? But gaming can become problematic when it starts being prioritized over your relationships, career and obligations. It did for me. View all results for . (It's good to quit! [–]TheLonelyGiraffe1632 days 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children), Then do something to get better socially. I’m leaving my gaming PC with a friend so I can’t play”. How to. I think the most important part to find as quickly as possible is the social equivalent IRL. In order to lose a habit, we need to replace it with another one. Lots of games can lag. All the time I was supposed to be studying was used to game more. My experience was different though. 22 comments. About This Article. But only if you keep continuing with the improvments, you will eventually gain something). But it starts by focusing on learning what you need to learn to get to where you want to be. share. I contribute this partially to genetics - a history of drug and alcohol abuse in my family including both parents, and mental illness (i'm also bipolar) - but the other part is that I can work my way through it. Four months is awesome, but everyone see changes at a different pace. I never really liked gaming, I just loved the constant competition. I often succumbed. All the accounts I had, over 300 games owned, all scheduled for deletion. It just needs to be one thing as I am not used to having multiple hobbies at once. I was decent at League reaching Gold II with over 30 friends I've met playing the game. If you want to improve your social skills, you need to go on missions that will help you facilitate that. While video games can teach certain skills or be educational, many children spend too many hours with a controller in their hand. Here are a few of the highlights. When/are you going to stop playing video games and why? take a bath? Sort by. If I start, I can't stop...and sadly, I lack the ability to prevent myself from starting. It caused me to drop out of high school, and while my friends were off to college, I was living in my parents basement playing video games up to 16 hours a day.. Three things keep me energized: A healthy amount of sleep (and a consistent sleep cycle), three meals with snacks in between (meaning enough calories to keep me going), and exercise (it started as lifting weights, but now I just play basketball for hours - hoop is life!!). So the fact that I don't game today HAS changed my life...but only because it made possible all the other changes that are really transforming me. This was done in incredibly boring ways, with Metal and Crystal resources building up over time, so you could upgrade your Metal and Crystal mining… I still crave videogames. Man, I dont know who you are, but when I read your lines, I thought you logged in with my account, and wrote my life down. The first step was to be able to focus on the book - after getting rid of flashing lights, multiple links, checking the fucking minimap every two seconds, articles I skim, etc., I was able to sit down and read. I haven't figured it out yet. [–]navi-thejedimaster 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children). It will take a little while to go back to normal, but you can make it better by trying to do something else. I had little education, had dropped out of high school twice and never graduated, had no desire to go back or to ever go to college. Depressed, I pretended to have jobs and deceived my family. Uninstalling my games allowed me to change myself to a better person. My first experience with these feelings came from OGame. I found martial arts to be very helpful probable because of the fact that it has an aspect to it where you progress (sort of like leveling up in a game). Do i just need to hang in there? To give you an idea of how active I was and the way I was eating, I often drank a Slimfast with my dinner, which was large without the meal replacement drink. I picked up that book and it's great! Sorry if im not on right subreddit , just tell me and i … Because of this, video game addicts might end up with a lot of debt. There are things you can do that will speed up the pace of change though. bitch on reddit? I was checking out a baby lizard yesterday - I'd never seen one that small before. I'm glad I got up early today. Personally i really miss gaming atm, but i think that's peoples experience at least :), [–]jotakami2230 days 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children). I want to finish college, I thought breaking free from video games would grant me the focus and the strength to squeeze every minute of the day towards trying to get through college. I am desperately trying my best not to fall back to video games. [–]TheLoneGreyWolf992 days 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (1 child). Go do a push up :D. But but but how much is "a little while"? It's hard, exhausting, and prone to failure at the worst possible moments. At any given point in my childhood, my strongest desire was probably to play video games. ), I learned to DJ and even performed in Prague. Now I was also a very active athlete in high school, competing in track and football and spending any spare time in the gym, or playing video games. I started thinking about what was the time i started playing so much, and I realised it was around the time I stopped playing football/soccer. But when I tried martial arts again after a very long time (half a decade), I felt a kind of high. I looked around and saw a lot of people looking at their phones while walking to class. Next I moved to a sci-fi book called Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. Here is the thing about motivation that I learned recently. Not a particularly popular or well known MMO, they call it a “browser-based, money-management and space-war themed massively multiplayer online browser game”. What I do find fun, however, is class. Wake up and make your bed. My advice for all my StopGaming folks, you're not really gonna go anywhere if you just stop playing games yet you do nothing else. For example, improving your social skills or learning a language. So...all of that happened, and made life much better than it ever was before...but none of that would have been able to happen if I'd still been gaming. That was good. As video games have gotten more technically advanced, they’ve also gotten more entrancing. So yes, you can make real progress. The reason they are playing video games is to avoid studying! (self.StopGaming). Did stopping gaming really improve your life? It can become really frustrating, particularly when it happens extremely frequently. Do everyday activities become at least on the same magnitude of fun as videogames after you stop playing them for long enough? :D. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. [–]coconut_radio 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children). wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. Also yeah I do a few pushups and stuff, but they don't make me happy :(, [–]TheLoneGreyWolf992 days 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (3 children), I don't know how long a little while is. 18.9k comments. Now I've set my goals very high. [–]Miguelinileugim 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (16 children). Read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, read The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, start hanging out in environments where you can meet people and practice interacting. Since I was still thinking about gaming and/or doing other escapist activities all the time, life didn't particularly improve and I would always go back to the games at some point. [–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (2 children), Simply uninstalling did not change my life. If you want to see where I was when I first quit, it's here: I battled depression, struggled with low self-esteem and “feeling good enough.”. Not everyone agrees though. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. :D, Also, not fapping is bad for your health if you're a man, and it is still harmful if you're a woman, I think that once a day, average not median, is pretty darn good! save hide report. It's what keeps you going back to the gym. Here’s 20 super solid reasons to massively cut back your time on video games and start taking charge of your life. Young men, in particular, are spending more time playing. I deleted snapchat, I avoid using my phone when I'm waiting, I try not to click every reddit link. Get Into Esports. And then learning what you need to to get there. My only problem is how to socialize, when you know you've always sucked at it, and it can make you fear from starting it again, but I try to improve myself, because I'm at the point now when I say : F*ck all the games, I want to do something, because I see those who don't play have better life. Video game addicts tend to spend excessive amounts of money on things like expansion packs, in-game tools, micro-transactions, new games, and upgrades to their computer. "Playing video games is a challenge." You'll never have a chore where you have to scrape mold off of your floor that will be fun (unless you're a micro biologist... then you might microscope that mold). A normal human being? It was my job to make things happen. Remember that playing games like these too much can cause you to get paranoid, and the often tense atmosphere can leave you quite on edge once you stop playing. Search our huge selection of new and used video games at fantastic prices at GameStop. You have to take action. It may seem like a stupid question, but i've sold my gaming pc 3 or 4 times now and been without it for up to 4 months at a time, but after a while i always get back to gaming because im really bad socially and the people i talk to from college are gamers as well. Try meetups and get out of the house more. ... Now when I play video games, I’m playing alone, in a dark corner, sleep deprived and miserable — ignoring my dreams for another day of instant gratification. Video games are a great source of entertainment and can be associated with positive health benefits including improved vision, creativity, and cognition when played in moderation. If you want to take your life to the next level, you’re going to need to stop playing so many video games (I’m speaking from personal experience here as a former gamer). :S, [–]TheLoneGreyWolf992 days 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (3 children), Right - so energy is a tricky thing. Weird I get to use my professional credential to answer a gaming question…. share. It's pretty great, actually, I focus a lot better now. Posted by 1 year ago. Then, reduce it to 1 hour a day to make things easier for yourself. All of my previous attempts at quitting meant gritting my teeth and forcing myself to not play no matter how much I wanted to. use the following search parameters to narrow your results: StopGaming exists to help those who struggle with or have struggled with compulsive gaming or video game addiction. 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