There is an association between daily gaming and depression. There are many reasons why this is happening; the most famous theory is the theory of Dopamine. Gaming is designed to cause you to release Dopamine. When you level up, you release Dopamine. When you get rare items, you get Dopamine. When you win a roll, you get Dopamine. This cycle never ends and until you need a lot more Dopamine for you to be happy.
First, I will be frank with you guys about my experiences, and if I ever offend someone by speaking what I feel, I am sorry. But I am going to share my experiences on why I quit gaming. There are no pictures or videos that I am not playing at all, but I truly swear that I have never played video games of any kind this whole time.
Third, I will be completely thorough with this article, so If you just want to know the summary of what I will be writing, you may scroll down directly into the conclusion I will provide. And fourth, I have tried to quit gaming ever since I was 19 years old, and I did not have the courage to finish it until I was So I am pretty sure that this has been a huge step for me, and you will know why. As you can see, I guess you can guess what the before picture is. Without a doubt, I was suffering from video game addiction.
I just went out and had a little vacation on the beach. I have a friend that took a picture of me, giving me suggestions on what pose I should do, and as you can see. That is the pose suggested to me. So my name is Jason; if I can remember correctly, I started video gaming when I was 8 years old. I started to play a game called GunBound, where we have tanks that fight with each other. To be honest, I reached the silver battle ax level that time without donating or spending a single dime.
I fought with people who literally spend hundreds of dollars just to get the best avatars, and I am just using the free versions, and I can still win against them. You see, that is how much I played before. As you can see, video games consumed my life, especially in my early days. I am just an average player. It did not have a lot of heroes to play with back then.
I remember using Pudge and enjoyed meat hooking everybody. I was addicted to games too seriously when I was 15 years old, and I still played Flyff even at 24 years old. I would uninstall the games and suddenly come to realize that I was playing it again. I was addicted. In fact, I realized after I quit that I was all alone. All of my friends that I met at games are just well. We have celebrations, cake or parties to have that joyous moment.
But not for me. I felt really empty. I realized that is part of a quarter-life crisis, as people my age call them, but that is why I thought again of quitting games. There is nothing wrong with it. This article is not to make you quit gaming, but to share what happened in my life after gaming. But if there is a chance that you think that games are controlling your life, I suggest you have a detox. I had many regrets that if I just used that time to improve upon myself, it would not be this way.
I thought that if only I stopped gaming and worked on myself to create an online business, have a workout, take care of my body instead of eating microwave oven foods. It is true, and I am not kidding; I was hospitalized when I was 15 years old because of too much gaming, and my body became weak because I am literally not sleeping right anymore. So the doctor had no choice but to put me on I. So what did I do? I gathered all of the willpower I had and decided to quit gaming.
I am ready to quit gaming for good. I started the challenge, and believe me, it was really hard, and I will share some tips on how I did it. I have also enjoyed hanging out with my friends and begun to have deeper and meaningful conversations. Because most of the time, we go to gaming because we think it is hard to talk with the people around, believe me, that you just have to try.
I began to constantly meditate in the morning, eat healthy foods, do intermittent fasting and most importantly, try to improve upon myself. Not just that, I began learning new things as I started to improve upon myself more and more each day.
I would not say that I became a perfect being, but I can say that I have completely changed compared to what I was 90 days ago. It was just 90 days, and there is no way I am a completely different person in such a small amount of time. Before I start this part of the article, I should first note the benefits that I have gained after quitting games.
Ever since I quit gaming, my sleep has become better. Literally, because I started to do some light exercise, and instead of playing video games every night, I began to do some meditation to relax before sleeping. Because my body clock has been changed for the better, my overall mood has become as perfect as it could ever be, which is great considering that insomnia is really hitting me hard before.
In addition to this, because of the exercise regimen I am doing with dumbbells at home. I gained some muscles, and I got stronger to lift heavier weights. This is great as I do not see improvement in my physical well-being. You see, you need the willpower to do this and prevent yourself from playing to improve yourself.
This is important considering that studies have shown that people who have higher willpower tend to be more successful in life. Most importantly, willpower can gain it through hard work. One thing that I learned when I quit games is that time is significant. I learned to value and give it into the things that are very important to me.
For instance, I gave time for my self-improvement. Leveling myself up, increasing my confidence, Physical capabilities, and more. My motivation started to rise. I want you to understand that the dopamine release when you stop playing is significantly lower, especially when you quit.
One thing you have to understand about the dopamine hormone is that it is the feel-good hormone. You release it when you are having fun, and chances are, if you are reading this, you are mostly having fun by playing video games. Playing video games is not wrong. It just needs some balance; if you can balance it, then good for you. So when you quit gaming, you are losing one of your dopamine sources. Your brain does not like that. Who wants to have less fun anyway?
So it will find a way to get you happy, and you will be motivated to do things that usually did not make you happy before. For example, when I quit gaming, I started to love hanging out with my friends instead of just sitting in front of a screen all day. This goes without saying, but when you start to get compliments on how you are improving and how you have changed in just a few months really makes you happy about yourself.
Video game blogs are up in arms after a guest on the TODAY Show suggested that men shouldn't play video games after the age of See above video. But why should you stop gaming at 30, 40 or any age for that matter? Why are video games different from, say, golf, tennis or pinochle? Video games are a hobby that can and should be played throughout life by both men and, yes, women too, if that's something you personally enjoy. If you didn't grow up playing games like many of the people in my generation and the younger generations did, you may not realize that games have grown up as we've grown up.
These days, there are games for all kinds of players — just like there are movies and TV shows for all kinds of viewers. Whether you're a kid, an adult, someone who likes lots of action or someone who prefers something more thought-provoking — there's a game out there for you.
In fact, according to a report from the Entertainment Software Association, the average age of today's game player is I loved the thrill of competing against other people. Single-player games bore me.
My longtime gamer tag, NoLimit, I took from Tribes 2. I played against someone with that name and they would wipe the floor with me. Time and time again. So I started idolizing them. I thought by taking their name it would make me better. I also started making friends with the people I played with online.
Meeting strangers from the internet was not normal. I even flew to Canada one summer to visit 2 of my internet friends. In high school, I spent entire summers playing Counter-Strike, another tactical shooter, with my online friends. We played in official leagues against other teams to try and move up the standings. I played before there was big money in video games. Blizzard released WoW Classic, which was a version of the game exactly how it was back in The game had completely changed since then, and gamers around the world had been clamoring for Blizzard to release the old, unchanged version.
I got hyped for WoW classic. I was so excited to relive my days in high school of adventuring around Azeroth. I literally fantasized for months about how we would play together, what classes we would pick, and all the online adventures we would have. I had a blast, and it was everything I wanted it do be. But that feeling was temporary. Deep down I always knew it would be. I was literally chasing a high. Writing this post makes all of this real. Playing games is an easy way to escape.
I can forget whatever is bothering me and get lost competing with other people. I want to consume less and create more. Video games are a major driver of consumption for me. What if I invested that time playing video games into creating?
What could I put out into the world? Writing more is my first major goal. Certainly not as good a writer as I am a gamer. I also want to get outside more. The second is that I had also started treating games like a series of new checkboxes for my to-do list. To remedy this, and therefore allow myself to play the new game, I fully intended to force myself through hours of gameplay within just a few weeks.
It was at that moment that I realized I had to do something. So I decided to do something I had tried and failed to do before — take a hiatus from my beloved games.
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