i just cant quit,, im just too adicted

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mangettingridofmana
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i just cant quit,, im just too adicted

ive been addicted to video games since i was three and there hasnt been a moment of my life i havent been playing video games or thinking about playing them. it was ok and not getting out of hand until i was about 8. i picked up this game and played it and played it and played it and played it. i peed in my pants about twice and i didnt even care. i looked like this . my parents stepped in and took it all away. half the time i looked like this sitting inmy dark room and when i was with my family i was like this: --> after about a year my dad decided to give my nintendo back. this time i was alittle heathier about it but just enough to realize i need to use the bathroom. a year later i started the cursed devil that i thought would forever curse me : online gaming istarted to play runescape and i thought "this is awsome!" and then i played everquest and went 2 days without sleep about 14 times. i didnt shower or nothing. alls i talked about was games when is was at school
i didnt really care about school. i was very smart for my age (about 2 grades up). and now that im older i realize how much smarter i could be. well any i couldnt even make freinds that looked like this that had the same personality as their look. well i go into home school for a year at the beggining of the year i stopped playing games agin. but this time i found a cyber cafe of which i could regulate myself. it cost alot and i spent alot too. so i regulate myself even more. i find a game called oblivion wich was fun and a good fps. i got addicted to those. i only go once a week now but too fill that up i play a text based rpg and i got addicted too that. to make matters worse i have an autism (not a bad one) it gives most of those who have it a personality that likes to learn but is very addictive to stuff. i dont know what too do, if i go cold turkey ill be like this and if i dont quit i cant follow my dream of creating a robot that will help paralyzed people. plz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: i just cant quit,, im just too adicted

We wish it were easy to quit.

But then we wouldn't be here, would we?

The twelve steps we follow are hard steps, but they work. You've already reached step one, you know you can't stop by yourself.

Step two, coming to believe that only a higher power of some kind can save you, is a big sticking point for many people, but it need not be. Ultimately it is a very hard, very necessary part of recovery-- it was for me.

I hope you review the twelve steps.

Please write soon.

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Re: i just cant quit,, im just too adicted

i have reviewed the twelve steps, and i have terminated accounts from some of the games that i have been addicted to.
i have not deleted my text-based accounts, even though it is still addictive, but i think that i may be able to control my addiction to those even though i dont know if i will be able to.

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Re: i just cant quit,, im just too adicted

Hi,

Welcome to OLGA. Thank you for sharing.

What is your name?

How are you doing? I apologize for taking so long to get back to you, but it is really busy here, right now.

I hope you will work on bringing the twelve steps and principles into your life. Also, balance your life out, so you aren't doing to much of any one thing.

I look forward to seeing how you are doing.

Liz

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Re: i just cant quit,, im just too adicted

I remember when I left my first wife, in part because she'd gotten me down to that one last game, the one I wouldn't give up... and I gave up her rather than it. And my four year old son with her...

Some people can cut back to a lesser form of game, just as some people can cut back to booze instead of heroin. But if you can't quit, then this is just a temporary measure, a gateway back into the hard stuff when things go all bad again, as surely they do in everyone's lives sooner or later.

I can't even handle computer solitaire, I had to quit altogether. It doesn't sound to me like you can handle even the less-intense stuff either... but only you can tell for sure.

Good luck to you.

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