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How I Quit My Gaming Addiction (Diablo, PoE, WoW)
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- I was addicted to video games like Path of Exile, World of Warcraft and Diablo for more than 30 years. In this video I share my journey to stop gaming and how it affected my life.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - intro
02:13 - the evolution of gaming
05:22 - why diablo is addictive
08:38 - how to know when gaming is a problem
16:44 - dark patterns in gaming
22:21 - the moment everything changed
24:49 - key lessons
31:07 - how to stop doomscrolling
34:01 - finding new activities
37:45 - deleting a 4 digit steam account
42:49 - benefits of not gaming
#gaming #addiction
I started my journey of Game Quitting in 2016, when I stumbled upon the GQ channel (it had around 1k subs back then). The journey was on and off, slipping during Covid, but the principles I learned went beyond just not playing videogames, but learning motivation, spirituality, work ethic, social bonds and many more discoveries. I never regretted embarking on Game Quitting path. Thank you, Cam!❤
Amazing you’ve been here since then!
The biggest effect gaming has on me is that it makes me in a rush all of the time when doing errands like grocery shopping. I have to maximize the amount of game time i have
Great insight
Yeah, that restlessness is recognizable. Waking up earlier instead of sleeping the hours I need to sleep, just because my whole body/nervous system thinks I should be playing...
I can relate to this a lot. I even had some situations where I barely even recognized what I was doing when I tried to buy groceries. I just thought about the game at all times and had zero focus on reality.
Let's go game quitters!
You're all saving lives and we're happy to help!
Thank you!
Day 63 of the G-virus detox: Sleep truly is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. I have been on the opposite extreme before that lead to temporary psychosis. Now I am working on dealing with emotions and healthy perspectives in handling boredom.
🙌🏼 great focus
Thank you for sharing your journey. Beautiful to hear of the positive changes, much recognizable!
Letting go of the old platforms like Steam and Blizzard, and thinking "thanks for providing the service", acknowledging that it has served its purpose in the past, but we don't need it anymore, sounds great. I might do that one day too.
Easter is always a harder period in my soberdom from games. Lots of associations of old 'easter sales', which then can trigger an interest and interest-loop of seeing all the new titles and remakes of the games I played in the past.
Often my periods of thinking of games, the underlying tone is being a bit more alone/lonely, and not reaching out to others about my hardship.
After sharing my hardship and reaching out to people I love, I feel better again, connected to my tribe/friends/love, etc.
Keeping myself strong. Happy I'm not going to play.
Board games and puzzles with my girlfriend, are a good distraction. Meditation and sport also really are great hobbys that I naturally seek again.
Keep up your sobriety and good work!
Thanks for sharing. Happy Easter
Thank you, very inspiring. I’m starting my 90 days journey now
You got this!
I had a friend who was #1 in my high school for grades and he got addicted to WOW and has never recovered and is still playing till this day. 34 without a job ever.
Wow
@@GameQuitters does he still live at home with parents? how does he afford basic needs? this sounds like enabling behavior.
Yes and his mother/father pays him an allowance to work around the house. He and I are both hispanic and our parents can sometimes be too loving and caring, that is why you see us living with our parents until sometimes 40.
@@Anonymous25491 I understand family values friend, and multigenerational houses. It is sad because you can't do much about it in those situations.
I am 36 and live at home, but I have had a good job for 6 years at the same company and finished paying off the house note over the last 4. I understand living at home as long as SOMEHOW you contribute. Its just sad to hear someone has lost so much life opportunities due to WoW addiction.
At first I thought this channel was the latest gaming channel where you learn how to rage-quit with flair. 😂 Nothing wrong with gaming friends, its all about balance! I’ve got a high score in life with a bonus level family, and still, I’m gaming daily. Now I’m on a quest to find other ‘Quitter’ guilds. Too much Mozart and Limp Bizkit could also be bad for you so Is there a ‘Music Quitters’ Channel? A ‘Book Quitters’ Channel? I’m acing ‘Tennis Quitters’ already. And I’d be the boss level at ‘Bad Movies Quitters’ - I love lots of bad movies with horrendous acting! Might just hit ‘start’ on that channel myself!”
The channel is for people who are unable to find balance, thus being addicted users. You don’t have to take such offense if you’re just casually enjoying video games without much issue.
I quit TERA for good on December 22, 2022, because I could not take the energy anymore. Since I left the game, my life has improved immensely.
What is the problem with those ((become perfect guru )) is that they dont know that some of us play games sometimes and are not addicted , you really should get out of the all or nothing mindset...
They're not saying it's all or nothing. If you listen to the whole thing it's very nuanced and tailored to the individual. If you think they're coming after you then maybe you do need to take a look at how it's impacting you.
@@talby5129 i play video game 1h every 2 days...
I am battling with my 16 year old son over a gaming addiction. I sent him this video. He is failing school. Skipping work. Staying up all night.
As a parent I suggest watching the video on this page: gamequitters.com/family-3secrets-page/
I was like that once. My grades were falling in school because I wasn't doing homework in favor of my videogame addiction. My parents took away my console until my grades improved. Recently, I have been re-watching old Dr Phil episodes about gaming-addicted teens. One dropped out of school just so he could game 17 hours a day, and his parents completely enabled him by replacing his console when he broke it. The other was playing Grand Theft Auto 20 hours a day, and like the first kid, was so full of anger and uncontrollable rage that he was mistreating his mom, who also enabled him. In the case of the first kid, his parents even pulled him out of a wilderness detox program after a week simply because he didn't like it.
Anyway, I'm rambling on. I basically have to force myself to start up my console, and even then, it's only to check for updates. I rarely play anymore.
If he has a console like an xbox or a playstation or nintendo you 100% must take it away.
Why brought a child anyway, life is retarded and suffering, all child suffering in accident, diseases, wage slave job, murder killers, and more,
Parents must respect their child, only us can help in our addiction, no one else,
All human will get bored to something in the right time
Desire to have children have many consequences of human suffering,
He has a computer, no play station or xbox.
Thanks for sharing your journey.
How much do you think you spent monthly on skins etc…
My issue isn't that I game too much, I play on average 2 or 3 hours a day.
The issue is, that I prioritize gaming over everything else.
Doing work or wherever I go, I think about which build to play in Path of Exile, or how to improve my build, and best farming strategies, instead of thinking about expanding my business, hiring more people, going to the gym regularly, and such.
And also, it is much easier for me to play PoE instead of reading a book
🙏🏼 thx for sharing
very nice to see this video , i like it
ty for this content ❤
Thx
I would like to see a video with pieces of advice on what to do when you're so depressed and like really have the lowest dopamine level. Cause i hadn't played games except of flight simulator for a long time until my family faced financial problems and we have very sad conversations like every evening.
This one is on depression: ua-cam.com/video/NqZcH8yFe4A/v-deo.htmlsi=oXS2FtLVtVFwN4m4
Even uninstaling games won't help u start downloading again. The best way to beat addiction propably do something else and enjoy it
It definitely helps!
Even TikTok and instagram are taking up my time. I think I will delete them.
🙌🏼
Make sure to find hobbies or else you will be back to insane and whatnot
Can i have the summary?
Stop gaming life gets better
One day you realise you are no longer young.
Time will not go back and you won't become any younger, the games you played don't matter to the rest of the world and you no longer the energy to deal with whatever life throws at you.
Start living now, gain experiences,dare and make mistakes
Day 1 of quitting, wish me luck 😢
Yeah, the more this guy sends me emails, i wil NEVER QUIT GAMING. You cant make me, the more I watch these videos, the more it makes me think, "Gaming is for everyone, stop trying to push people out of their passion" plus, YOU CAN GET PAID REALLY WELL BY PLAYING VIDEOGAMES.
And how much you making with games? 😂😂
@@GameQuitters oh trust me, I'm getting there, I know some people who get paid for streaming, you are aware Livestreaming is a job, right?
How much u making
@@GameQuitters nothing yet, but I'll get there one day.
@@Ghostpoolthe One day. 😂 Unfortunately, you’re fighting an uphill battle there, especially with how saturated the live streaming scene is now.
Dumb 🤡🤣