It will feel bad for two weeks, but it will get better. If you’re a console gamer sell all of it. Disassemble your PC, and sell it if you don’t need that processing power. My Advice to Youīuild yourself up to sell your gaming paraphernalia. Just believe me, and the many others here who believe it will change your life. It’s like putting the human experience of consciousness into words, you just can’t. Nothing will substitute doing it for yourself in real life. Yes, it’s amazing, and after a while you get used to how good it is, but I had to bring myself back to how bad it was originally to remember how good I feel now. The most important benefit I’ve received is presence of mind: being able to have initiative on new things I might want to do, or ways to think. I’m in a better state of mind than ever before. I want to go out and meet up with friends. I feel like everything is better in many aspects. My mind fog, anxiety, and moodiness are at lifelong lows since quitting. I took my exams (still waiting on the results), and believe I have made a massive improvement over last year. My goal in quitting was to avoid spending six hours a day for weeks on end on perpetual experiences that don’t change the more you play them (as I had been doing for seven years straight), so for my purposes these games were not relapses. I still think most popular games fall into the abusive category and you should avoid at all costs, as they are skinner boxes and will not help you succeed in life. It doesn’t compare to real life, but neither does any form of media. A one-shot, well made experience that makes you think, just like a good book, or a good documentary. Now I know that saying I played a game during my 90 day detox and thought it was beautiful is a horrendously unpopular sentence to say in this community, but just like the best novel I have read (Moby Dick) I found it to be a magical experience. I did lose a lot of free time to it, but the immersion and lateral thinking involved made it feel a world apart from the 4,000 hours of throwaway repetitiveness I had mostly experienced up to this point. Watch: Should You Watch Gaming Streams? A Slipup?Īround 30 days in I played Riven: The Sequel to Myst. I unsubscribed from all gaming channels on YouTube. I deleted those too and didn’t feel a thing. I had never played mobile games, but I did have some on my phone. I was, and am, far too frugal to begin a cycle of rebuying an expensive graphics cards and then reselling them at a loss repeatedly. This strengthened my belief that this time was different, as I had never gone this far before. This completely cut me off from going back, as the main games I was playing at the time were PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Rocket League, both of which required a dedicated graphics card, or an amazing laptop, and now I had neither. My parents and my online gaming friends all thought this was another futile attempt to quit – and any other time they would have been right – but this time I did something different: I disassembled my PC and sold my graphics card ASAP. On May 10th a switch flicked in my brain. Then within two weeks, I would replug-in my PC and all of my monitors, and then proceed to binge on gaming for the next 10 days. I would unplug my PC from my room, move it to another room with my monitors, and then put a laptop in its place. I had casually tried to quit a bunch of times, and then ‘seriously’ some more times, but I never made the cut and I’d always go back. Related: A Guide to Quit Gaming for One Year Failing to Quit What was I thinking? I would never meet up with my friends, I had social anxiety, and my brain felt jacked on something. I was making a mob farm in Minecraft the day before an important chemistry exam, having not revised at all for it. Gaming has worsened my academics significantly, forcing me to retake a year. If I play six hours a day, that’s a total of 1.8 years of constant gaming, non-stop everyday. Conservatively I have gamed for over 4,000 hours. I accumulated 2,500 hours on Team Fortress 2, 1,000 hours across the rest of my Steam games, and god knows how much extra time I have on Minecraft and World of Warcraft. By far my biggest problem with gaming were games that featured a perpetual experience – that never ended. “It’s been 90 days since I’ve quit gaming.
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