My name is Walks and I used to be a WoW Aholic. I’m not sure of the timeline because of the addiction but having now spent the last few years re-evaluating my life decisions I’ve since realized that I couldn’t admit that I could never play WoW safely. It’s true. I started playing sometime in my mid twenties but it’s been awhile since I finally put down the mouse and put to rest my WoW Addiction .
I Know What You’re Thinking
You’re thinking it doesn’t exist but having spent that past few minutes researching the internet I’m pretty surprised to see the amount of legitimate services being offered to people who think they have an addiction. Doctors and psychologists will debate for hours on whether such a thing as video game addiction actually exists but for those that have lived it…you know what I’m talking about. The first step is admitting you have a problem. WoW, Call of Duty, Halo etc. It all exists.
During my three year (give or take) span of playing the game I blew off nights out, dates, hockey games and more because I was glued to a chair, more importantly had to save money for my monthly subscription to the service. Screw drinking beers and trying (feebly) to hook up with girls, I had an online world to conquer (which I failed at too). There was a point when I was single where I’m pretty sure I was spending upwards of 10+ hours a day on that crack.
My routine usually consisted of:
4AM – Get up and go to work
12PM – 5PM – Finish work, come home, fire up the game and play
5:00 – 5:01 – Eat
5:01 – 1AM – Play
2AM – 3:59 Sleep
Rinse and Repeat…at least until the weekend where you didn’t have to work, or only worked for 4 hours.
Still Don’t Believe Me?
Whether you want to believe me or not it’s up to you but there are legitimate resources on the internet to help. WoWAholics is a website devoted to such a cause were users can share their stories as to how they broke their addiction. I know it sounds ridiculous but when therapists are claiming the game is more addictive then cocaine it has to have some merit doesn’t it?
I know I’m not alone, I had friends who went through the same ordeal, for all know some of them could still be doing it.
Thankfully one day it came to an end. I can’t remember quite what it was, whether it was the fact I was weighing probably 240 lbs at the time, realizing I’m wasting a perfectly beautiful day inside or hearing stories about people dying while playing (some had played consecutively upwards to 72 hours, not eating, pissing in pots etc).
When friends and family tell you you have a problem…you have a problem.
Now to curb my drinking problem.
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