You can do it ୧ʕ•̀ᴥ•́ʔ୨

Thank you!

I have faith in you!

I'll try not to fail you!

For real, I'd conciser putting the games and all away for a bit. It helps so much not to be tempted by the system being in such an easy to grab place. Good luck to you! :D I hope you find some real drive from this!

Yes, I suppose I should do that, considering I have about four gaming devices within five feet of me at the moment. Thank you!

If gaming really is interfering with your life that much, yeah, it's for the best to put it aside, at least until you have things under control. Hope everything goes well for you. Good luck!

Thank you, I'm glad you agree. It helps to have the support.

D8

Hello!

Good luck there.
I kinda know the feeling as I failed my first year at university because of gaming tournaments. Made a long pause till I graduated.
Now that I can finally play I can't play more than one hour in a row without having a headache. Guess I lost the habit ? Maybe for the best

Aww, thanks for sharing that, Achoral. The fact that you were able to stop for your studies is really encouraging.

I ended up cutting a lot of things out of my life in order to keep to an art schedule -- that included most of my gaming activities and TV. Free time is now spent socializing with friends or drawing first and foremost, anything after that I can use to play a game if I want.

Try starting up a project with a schedule to adhere to. Worked for me.

Yes, art is very important to me, too, and if I had to cut something out I would choose anything but that. I plan to use my time to draw more; I already am running on a bit of a schedule, and I can say that it's been working for me, generally. Thank you, Frostclaw, I'm really happy you chose to respond.

I like your work a lot -- keep it up! :)

I, I like your work a lot too!! I love it in fact!!

Never give up. Trust your instincts!

Father?

YOU CAN DO IT! XD

Thank you!

You're welcome! d(^W^

There's ways around it but don't let me catch you online on the 3DS or WiiU!

Well... I may play games if a friend invites me. I don't want to be a stick in the mud, either. We'll see. Is that a copout?

Only if you lose when friends invite you.

Man good luck to you. I tried to stop playing games for five months and I only made it through two and a half =w=

There's a fun old video game podcast where the host interviews a guy that completely stops gaming for a year. Guy picks up other hobbies to keep himself busy. Should give it a listen. http://alifewellwasted.com/2009/11/.....ode-five-help/
He interviews one group and two peeps. It starts at the second interview

Thanks for sharing, bud! I'll have to give it a listen! Two and a half months is really good, I'm impressed. I don't know if I'll be able to last that long-- but hopefully this will work and I'll find it in me to make some progress with my life.

No problem. I would have probably last longer if I wasn't hanging around my friends, watching them play video games all the time, haha

Thankfully for me, I see that I have quite a bit of support among my friends, which makes it easier. If I get back into video games, it will be my own fault!

Yeah, I know how hard it can be. Best of luck to you.

Thank you, mayonnaise!

Don't cold turkey it.

But why not? Do you think I'll lose my mind, go crazy, get pissy and moody, lash out at people, express my repressed desires in weird ways, start talking to myself, develop a new, more dangerous addiction to replace the old one, and desparately find ways to get a video game fix without actually playing them?

Nope. Cold turking will lead to you becoming a pot head and shooting up speed on weekends with a 50 year old fat bald guy named Frank.

But I like Frank, he's my daddy!

Good luck, that's definitely not something I'd be able to do, but you're waaayyyyyy better at being responsible and shit than I am.

You don't give yourself enough credit then, Sety. I think you're a pretty responsible guy.

How successfully you manage this will certainly tell you a great deal about yourself.

If you stop completely, then being a gamer was never truly essential to your being.

If you cannot change at all, then gaming is more important within you then the consequences it has on your life. Something is yet unresolved and unsatisfied.

All else being in between.

Stripping away what is essential will destroy; leaving what is unessential will decay. But, always remember, you are only what you do and have done, not what you can do. So whether you must or must not, you can only learn after you have or have not.

Thank you, I believe this really is a learning experience, as you've said. I am somewhere in the middle. I get urges a lot, but not to the point where I'm suffering.