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Hi,

 I've recently been forcing myself to not play Wow. Due to input from friends and family. the problem they've noticed is that I become irritable, demanding, and generally not myself when wow is available to me. Now that I have stopped playing wow I've noticed that my sleep patterns are messed up. I find myself having to avoid wow situations such as friends playing while I'm visiting them, But everyday is better now that i'm not playing any online games. I still play games but at a much reduced amount of time. these Games although fun should have built in time limits so as not to encourage addiction. hope this helps. 

well my addiction is something i cant stop im was trying to look for help on this site but didnt find anything helpful!

i've been playing videogames since im 4 yrs old....it was  my only friend during my childhood i had my sister but she was 8 yrs older than me so she didnt pay any attention to me.....

 i have every nintendo console............games i have lots of them and everytime i go to gamestop i et depressed cuz i think that i dont have any game and that i need some but i dont have any money so i start asking my friends for money....i owe like 79 dlls right now....

 i stole my bro's in law DS,his call of duty 5,a gamecube controller and some game

many years ago i stole 6 games for the 64,

sometimes when i cant solve a puzzle in a game i cant sleep thinking about how to solve it....

sometimes i dream with games

for example this time that i couldnt solve the puzzle in majoras mask in clock tower where u can play a song that makes yourself in wax statues.....that day i was disappointed i went to bed n was thinking about it and then i fell asleep and started dreaming about it.... unbeliavable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i found the solution to the problem it was just to use the hookshot while i was stanfid on a huge square stone.............

resident evil,zelda,mario and perfect dark (for the 64) are my fav' games.......

im just addicted to them i want to stop it but i cant......

So this is the story...I was looking over the internet, and I found this article on gaming addiction and I was chilled. The whole thing sounded so familier; The examples given, the incidents quoted...it was all as if taken out my own life! I mean, I'm performing badly at studies since last 3 years...and that's about the time I had bought my own PC. I knew that playing 8 hours a day wasn't right, but I had no idea that I was addicted or anything....The night I realised this all, I packed my PC up and the very next morning went out and sold it off. I was craving for over a week....then I decided to go for a holiday. Went to the seaside.....it was tough, but I came back changed.

To those others who're still stuck to their screens, wake up and realise, you're all ruining your life. You'll achieve a lot in a game, maybe even become a conquering king or something, but what about this real life that God gave you? You'll lose everything...wake up before it's too late.

 And to those parents who're tired of scolding thier kid,who won't listen, take their computer and toss it away. It's the root of all evil...games, porn, stupid soc-networking...all sort of crap....we know it's bad...everyone knows it's bad, but it's like drugs, you can't do without it as long as you keeping getting it.....the best way is to get rid of it, and go out camping for a week...or take a month long holiday at the beach. Trust me...it'll work.

Goodluck.

I play videogames, but it doesn't interfere with my life, I just do it as a hobby, no real impact. It's just fun for me. :D

Been doin' it since I was a small child, too, but it's never really done anything bad, it's a good way to relax and kill time, it's usually fun if it's not a crappy game.