I'm thinking I'm addicted to 4chan.
I've spent the last 13 hours or so staring at the screen of this computer, lurking and making posts - both as replies and threads of themselves. Whenever I'm banned for overtly shitposting I immediatly start feeling weird. This is not even a joke. I don't really talk to anyone in real life, and this is the only form of social interaction I can get without pressure or violence. This has been going on for two or three years now.
I wish I could simply turn off the computer and do something productive instead, like practicing piano or learning a language, but I always feel attracted to this place, it's like a magnet.
Most of the time I have some 30 tabs of threads open on Chrome, and I'm constantly lurking and posting on all of them.
This must sound like a joke, but I feel addicted to (You)s as well. I genuinely feel comfort in being arround here.
I used to think I was extremely addicted to videogames. I had spent thousands of dollars on steam and on a good gaming computer, and when I noticed it I had completely dropped vidya and was spending 99% of my free time with this shit. I also visit other imageboards as well, it's not just this one although it's my prefered neihgborhood.
How can I end this?
TL;DR: read the title, I want to stop being addicted to 4chan and don't feel the impulse to be here
Take up meditation,
Reading,
Join a church/ymca
Workout
Switch addictions to Craigslist
Learn piano off YouTube
Try to ween yourself off of the problem and every time it arises tell yourself 'nah fuck that, I'm a man not gonna be controlled by sum faggot desire' not to say I'm speaking from experience, I waste tons of time on the Internet. Oh ya u could smoke weed too! (For its legal where u live)