Yesterday morning I deleted all of my games, including steam

go outside on a hike/ biking. find new stuff to do in your free time

>>42277344

I just kinda fell out of love with it.

>Did nothing but play games and eat while being supported by minimum wage job.
>Fat and depressed as hell.
>Got gainz.
>Left old job and got new job.
>Still depressed.
>Began smiling more, and pretended to be happy.
>Known as the fit guy at new job.
>Made friends.
>They invite me places.

It began as me playing on my days off and after work.
Slowly but surely I began to make excuses for not sitting there in TS or discord and playing games. Now I'm at a point that I won't even touch an emulator.

>>42277344
Just make a cut.

Realize that if you're addicted, "playing just a bit" isn't going to work.
Stop playing alltogether. At least for a few years. I don't know how old you are, but chances are you're around 20 and in college or a NEET. I wouldn't touch video games until you have a full-time job and a family. By then it'll be pretty much physically impossible to binge on vidya for whole days. Maybe you won't even be interested in them anymore.

For now: Find other hobbies. Learn new skills. Learn an instrument. Learn languages, learn coding, read more books, spend more time outside, go volunteer somewhere, start playing a team sport...

Delete everything digital, destroy everything physical.
Remove your games from your steam account and use a throwaway mail address to completely block access to any gaming accounts you might have.

t. Haven't played video games in six months, did the above to get rid of them and now feel better than ever before.

I fight it by being busy with work, driving lessons, gym and cooking. Used to just wake up and play vidya every day, all day for a couple of years, until I moved out of my mom's basement at 19 and moved to another country and started from scratch...

Don't have time for it plus my laptop is shit and I only can play grand strategy but it's a slow dopamine release, I enjoy gym more.

>>42277380
I did pick up biking and reading again, but it's so GODDAMN hard in my off time when I'm just doing mindless stuff, I always think about gaming.

>>42277497
I'm not going to play "just a bit", I'm going to accurately time my video gaming habit so that it doesn't turn into 8 hours marathons and instead having a casual one or two hours, this is not like smoking, which I also quit some time ago.

I'm 25, I'm looking for a job now, just finished a masters, obviously I'll replace all that time I regained with productive habits but I can't turn myself into a learning machine that does nothing but practice all day long, everybody needs an off time, just that I need to control that off time better.

I can't picture myself quitting it and just magically transforming into a productive all day around person.

>>42277528
This is what I wanna be, just transform and play some casual game, for now it seems impossible tho but I'm in my second day and I'll see how it goes.

Read a book or something man it's not hard.

I have literally no friends and even I can fill my day with other stuff despite never going out and socialising.

>>42278023
Maybe playing "a bit" will work for you but loosing an addiction means re-wiring your brain to work without video games

You can't do that efficiently if you constantly get back to it, even for a little bit

At around 21 or 22, I lost interest in video games in general, since then it's been about 2 years and in that time I only played WoW on several occasions on new private servers which lasted couple of weeks each time before I got bored again.

I also forced myself to play and complete Half-Life series, it was often hard to get started but finishing it was well worth it.

Now I'm trying to get myself into books, I spend most of my time on my phone.

>>42278023
Sure, stopping video games doesn't magically change you, and you also don't have to be "productive" 24/7.
But I definitely would recommend you stay away from games for longer than just a week. a couple of months at the very least.
Especially considering you "always think about gaming". Seriously. Stay away from games. I would even say stay away from gaming-related media. Unsubscribe from gaming channels. Delete gaming bookmarks.
You're 25 dude, you're an adult. You finished your studies, you're now entering the next stage of your life. You should decide that video games were a part of the stage you're leaving behind.

>>42278072
I don't consider video gaming an addiction, it doesn't change the chemical balance of the brain the same way a genuine addiction does, I've studied psychology so maybe I just see this differently, I think a better word for this is "habit".

>>42278188
good advice

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>>42278824

How it worked for me was landing a really demanding tech job.

I kept playing one month in, but at some point you start wondering if you want to waste an hour of your ever decreasing personal time on those ragefests you call DOTA2 matches.

So the interest slowly faded away to the point where I'd play with some mate for old times sake but did not derive an once of pleasure doing it.


I don't think you fight the 'addiction' by restraining yourself, it's like trying to manipulate someone who knows what's going on, you must do it indirectly. And it also create a void that needs to be filled.