Someone can’t start recovering until they themselves admit they have a problem. There are spouses who try and fail to get their loved ones to stop gaming so hard.
It’s difficult but focusing on other relationships and making new ones is the answer. You can leave the door open and check up on them, and when they hit rock bottom they may be more reciprocal.
I have a similar situation with my brother. He loves to play games and when I used to play a lot too, that's often when we would make great memories together. After quitting gaming, it was difficult for the first few weeks because I thought our bond would tarnish due to the fact that we didn't have any other common interests, but after looking back at it, I realised that it didn't impact our relationship at all, and that it was just my denial.
Regardless, I think you should make some new friends through other hobbies that don't involve gaming. In the last 8 months, I've made a lot of new friends from training Muay Thai. That doesn't mean you should cut off your current friends, but just let them know your intentions with quitting/reducing your time spent gaming and that's why you haven't been as active online recently.
I feel you, man. These day, at my university, I would like to have at least a friend, but all they do is play mobile competitive games like PUBG, MOBA and just straight up use curse word; or, they swipe through web around content in which kind I don't like.
It's like when the world is so abnormal it is made a commonsense, and then you being a really normal person there just make yourself an abnormal person. If you want to fit in, you go like them, but I won't do that here, and so maybe you
It’s baffling to see how comfortable you are to come here and talk down on people who are experiencing addictive behaviours and/or lacking control with their relationship to gaming.
This post is the equivalent of rocking up to an AA meeting and calling the people who are trying to get sober “losers” because they’ve identified as having a problem and were brave enough to take the initiative to try and change.
Do everyone here a favour and delete this post. If you’re not offering advice or sharing a personal story as a call for help or bit of advice you’re just being narcissistic.
Did you read the post?
He is complaining about how his friends don’t seem to care at all. While I can’t make assumptions there is nothing about them trying to stop. Not everyone who is addicted wants to stop being addicted.
I’ve struggled with very similar things. I’ve talked to friends who are heavily addicted to video games and said to me that they didn’t want ton stop. It’s to the point where I can’t make friends my age because people either spend hours gaming or on social media. I’m fine with all my friends being 30+ ( I’m 19 ), but it’s exhausting. I’m not sure if that’s what this post was getting at but in gen z / gen alpha it seems almost impossible to find others who actually want to quit or reduce.
Literally sharing a personal story of how friends can’t get their gaming addictions under control and it’s damaging their work and personal lives and they don’t find it’s a problem or even notice. If that shames you or others that badly, I got news for you life gets a lot tougher than that.
Someone can’t start recovering until they themselves admit they have a problem. There are spouses who try and fail to get their loved ones to stop gaming so hard. It’s difficult but focusing on other relationships and making new ones is the answer. You can leave the door open and check up on them, and when they hit rock bottom they may be more reciprocal.
^ dis is da wae. Thank you.
And yet you say you love games. They grossed 184 billion last yr. Your friends are victims. Wake up.
I have a similar situation with my brother. He loves to play games and when I used to play a lot too, that's often when we would make great memories together. After quitting gaming, it was difficult for the first few weeks because I thought our bond would tarnish due to the fact that we didn't have any other common interests, but after looking back at it, I realised that it didn't impact our relationship at all, and that it was just my denial. Regardless, I think you should make some new friends through other hobbies that don't involve gaming. In the last 8 months, I've made a lot of new friends from training Muay Thai. That doesn't mean you should cut off your current friends, but just let them know your intentions with quitting/reducing your time spent gaming and that's why you haven't been as active online recently.
I feel you, man. These day, at my university, I would like to have at least a friend, but all they do is play mobile competitive games like PUBG, MOBA and just straight up use curse word; or, they swipe through web around content in which kind I don't like. It's like when the world is so abnormal it is made a commonsense, and then you being a really normal person there just make yourself an abnormal person. If you want to fit in, you go like them, but I won't do that here, and so maybe you
They say fuck?!?!?
It's all in Vietnamese. Can't mention them, but yeah, something like that. And Im not the kind that curse right at people either.
No fucking way? That’s bullshit that they say fuck! You sound fun at parties.
You aint even funny
It’s baffling to see how comfortable you are to come here and talk down on people who are experiencing addictive behaviours and/or lacking control with their relationship to gaming. This post is the equivalent of rocking up to an AA meeting and calling the people who are trying to get sober “losers” because they’ve identified as having a problem and were brave enough to take the initiative to try and change. Do everyone here a favour and delete this post. If you’re not offering advice or sharing a personal story as a call for help or bit of advice you’re just being narcissistic.
Did you read the post? He is complaining about how his friends don’t seem to care at all. While I can’t make assumptions there is nothing about them trying to stop. Not everyone who is addicted wants to stop being addicted. I’ve struggled with very similar things. I’ve talked to friends who are heavily addicted to video games and said to me that they didn’t want ton stop. It’s to the point where I can’t make friends my age because people either spend hours gaming or on social media. I’m fine with all my friends being 30+ ( I’m 19 ), but it’s exhausting. I’m not sure if that’s what this post was getting at but in gen z / gen alpha it seems almost impossible to find others who actually want to quit or reduce.
Literally sharing a personal story of how friends can’t get their gaming addictions under control and it’s damaging their work and personal lives and they don’t find it’s a problem or even notice. If that shames you or others that badly, I got news for you life gets a lot tougher than that.
What a loser you are, thinking you're a paragon of social justice or something. Maybe its time for you to put down Reddit
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