Ive just been watching that Documentery on the TV tonight about addiction. It discusses video games, and mainly mentions World of Warcraft.
I was incredibly addicted to WoW for over 12 months. I played for over 12 hours a day during that time (20 hours on weekend). I pretended to be depressed, so that i could go on the sick for 4 months to play the game full time :-/. I would sometimes go a full week without showering/washing just so i could play the game.
I quit the game in January as it was destroying my life. I still read the WoW forums 3 or 4 times a day. However, i haven't returned to the game since.
Have any of you guys got serious addictions?
marco that's really insightful
I can't imagine ever being addicted to anything like that at all. I had the opposite i suppose. I became afraid of eating and the feeling i got off not eating was an addictive feeling...but with medical help i got back on my feet.
Tribal Wars
it's a medeval(?) war game thingy. I've spent many many hours on it. I'm quite bored of it right now but I still be on at least a couple of hours every day.
I'm waiting for someone to say DiS...
i guess i'm addited to fags
i don't even smoke that much, maybe like 5 a day max, but i guess it becomes an addiction when it becomes harmful. And it's costing me too much, so I need to cut down. Could happily do this if I had the money for it though. That's my contribution. Exciting.
I became addicted to Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Seriously. It cost my a girlfriend, a football team place and probably made me a birgin for another 2 years. I bascially couldn't stop playing. The only reason I did stop was that After approx 9 months playing at 5 hours a night/day(I too took time off, this from school) I went on holiday for two weeks, and resorted to drawing theme parks on paper.
This, going cold turkey, saved me.
Now, my addictions are music, which is much more sociably acceptable, and a few other choice substances.
FAIL.
*Virgin
I've never been seriously addicted to something,
but I think I have a fairly addictive personality. Which is a bit of a contradiction really..
As for games, I was obsessive about the Sims for a while and played it every spare chance I got. I had to give it up completly before I lost total control.
Also,
why hasn't anyone said DiS yet?
There was a time I'd play Football Manager
for two or three days straight without sleep. I guess that probably counts. I miss that actually.
And I get really, really worked up if I go more than a few days without reading Harry Potter... even though I more-or-less know the books word for word.
If I had money I'd probably be addicted to Yu-Gi-Oh cards, so it's probably good that I don't and just settle for buying them DS-style.
Yes, I realise none of those are serious. But I wanted to talk about them anyhow.
"there was i time i'd play football manager two or three days without sleep".
Only on the internet. That sounds like something alan partridge would say.
come on guys. Come on.
I kind of, don't understand.....?
Who would say that why?
I must admit I've got this audio addiction
It's a serious affliction; it's a life support system. I'd do almost anything for the spiritual nutrition that I find when I am lost inside my compact disc collection. I walk into work with my Walkman hair, a little disheveled and recessed from ear to ear - might look a little funny but I do not care: with my soundtrack in my head I've got nothing to fear. I've gotta say I woke up blue but now I'm feeling born anew suspended in the phrases of a didgeridoo. Finding that song was like falling in love, I floated off the ground and I kissed the sky above. I am a slave to the audio wave. You scammers and you pushers and you street preachers, you snake oil salesmen and similar creatures - keep in mind you might as well consider me dead I'm in a world apart with these phones on my head! My audio addiction sends me on a mission, my Walkman and I we're going CD fishing. We're hanging out a lot around these record stores - hey hey there Mr. Virgin have you got a little more of that AH AH AH AH AH
Kinda.
Maybe more a compulsion to keep doing things, which has the potential to become an addiction.
Also Dramatics. I'm an addict for dramatics.
thats strange
cos i confuse the two for love...
internet
i know everyone probably has this really, but for a certain amount of time when i was unemployed and living with my mum and her boyfriend i used to spend every waking moment in my bed, on the internet. for about six months i wouldn't see anyone, i would bring all my meals upstairs and would only leave my bedroom to do bodily functions. i slept about three hours a night/day (normally between the hours of 10am-1pm or something similar) and would go days without washing. god knows what i did, i was so antisocial.
i have always been addicted to the internet really, ever since i was about nine and i got my first computer. deep rooted personal issues etc. but it has eaten years of my life and i have wasted so so many hours on here. i'm still addicted, it makes me late for things, it makes me forget things and people and what the time is. speaking of which, it's like half ten. that's insane. and this post is far too long.
also: pokémon. i lost months to pokémon. i used to skip lessons in school and hie in the toilet playing on my game boy. i can't even do rebellion without being a geek about it :(
The first paragraph is me now
And for the past year. Like, completely. Apart from the washing bit, my hygiene is okay.
at least you read
you seem to have other interests. i would do nothing but sit at my laptop, on the internet. and the sickest thing was i was happy like that. it was really difficult to force myself to want to get a job.
Shit. This is me
Well I work for my father, but I really cannot be bothered getting a proper job because the internet roolz and stuff :(
That first paragraph
March 2008 - onwards
the internet addiction? Since I got my PC online, summer 2004? I've lost jobs, friends, opportunities to see the sun, months of my life not leaving the house.
Thankfully I have addictive tendencies towards physical exertion and will spend alternate periods outside as much as possible, skateboarding, climbing things, spending all day every day outside.
But that's no balance and I'm always thrown off
Those other interests
don't involve me leaving the room, or very often the computer though, so it's not much better.
I totally understand. I'm kind of happy, and not happy. I mean, I have all the time just to do nothing, go on the internet, play games, watch dvds.... which I do like. At the same time I have no money, no life, and basically no friends. I know once I get a job I'd probably be okay with it. Not enjoy it maybe, but I'd go and wouldn't mind too much -- but it's like it's a major adjustment to make now I've been living like this so long and don't really feel like doing it.
it's a funny one
i think i would be content sitting on the internet for the rest of my life, doing what i want and not having to face the real world. my life wouldn't be very exciting but i would be happy. at the moment i'd rather have that, no complications and the only thing to worry about is, well, absolutely nothing. having a job and a life and friends and things to do with my time is great, but always brings complications and since i started getting all of those things numerous bad things have happened to me and my family. obviously i'm not claiming the two are related but it's an automatic association that i make in my mind.
That's me.
I'm content with being on the internet on my own all day. Why would I want to get a job if I can just do this all day?
:(
i'm playing pokemon gold right now
gameboy sp ;D
Bah, the internet
I've to go to Tesco's tonight and buy my mum a birthday cake and a card and some other essentials, but I've been on the web all this time.
Just as well it's open 24 hours eh
yah i have this
i actually spend every single day on the internet. I dont get bored though. I actually quite like it. I go out for the odd day at the weekend but i always come home and first thing i do is go on the internet. I dont even watch tv anymore, i just download stuff and watch it while surfing the net.
the internet thing
at times i think i'm gravitating towards this stage. the fact that i still have to go to school helps keep it to reasonable levels, but during the summer i can seriously see the internet becoming my sole form of communication. sometimes i think i'd be quite happy with that.
internet's become big for me
it's my main tie to my friends now that we're out of hs. it's not really healthy, as i've been thinking a lot about in the past week or so.
two of my friends
have wow addictions. One has played 58 hours in one week, the other doesnt go on xfire. Its pretty horrible, especially since i cant act interested when they try and talk about it to me. Even though i did play it a bit, found it impossible to get addicted.
different addiction to yours.
but i have fought it. and stil am. and I believe forever will be. albeit i jump off the wagon intermittently :(
just because i'm awake at 12:30am
on a monday night playing Civ II doesn't mean i'm ADDICTED GODDAMMIT.
Threads like this make me feel so cool.
Feeling cool, and being cool...
totally different.
Actually,
my latest addiction was Francoise Hardy.
I often WANT to take the dog out because it gives me an excuse to walk around humming along to her.
<3
Regretting the past and dreading the future.
I need to get addicted to living in the present and soon.
I agree on internet.
I really have no idea where to steer my life so it has been on hold for the better part of four months+
I'm not sure if it's really addiction though, more like a stepping stone between stuff.
I wish it didn't make me sleep two hours later than a sensible time though.
Drama
and probably internet. I'm very mentally dependant on alcohol but it's not physical, and I'm taking a kind of break from it at the moment for various reasons.