Gaming Addiction

[Gicker]

If we all had to be perfect to try and make this world a better place, the world would be much worse than it is right now. If you want to be afraid of people calling you a hypocrite and end up making no efforts to improve the world around you as a result, that's your choice. It's always the do nothings who criticize those who actually push this world forward out of jealousy and resentment, but it's people who DO without FEAR of reprisal, knowing their imperfections that make this world better. You choose what you want to do, but at the end of the day if even one person does something about their gaming addiction because of Jack's post, then he's made the world a better place... and what have you done for all your nay saying and undermining of a not a self righteous effort, but a truly righteous effort. Again, cudos to Jack.

[AdvancedWind]

Why are you all still breathing? Bunch of oxygen-addicts. You should start going out and inhaling more hydrogen instead of wasting your lives away.

[Gicker]

Read the whole post Nuru. Overcoming does not equate to curing. Overcoming means ruling your own life, not letting your illness rule it for you.

[Leowilde]

To the people requesting that this thread be locked: I personally think that MMO addiction is a relevant topic and that an MMO forum is the perfect place to discuss it.

No doubt, but this is going nowhere. Look around - very few here are taking this seriously. This thread is hurting the topic more than it's helping.

[Gicker]

I guess my point is there is no official, what one person may call an addict others may not. So what makes it official? Someone who went to college and has a piece of paper with PH. D. on it?

Well considering you have to do intense study and research and discussion on a topic for 7+ years to get a PhD, and then spend the rest of your life doing the same, yeah I would say that makes a PhD more qualified on the subject than yourself. And besides, self diagnosis is never objective.

[JackDaniels]

Thank you Gicker, at least some people are taking this seriously.

No doubt, but this is going nowhere. Look around - very few here are taking this seriously. This thread is hurting the topic more than it's helping.

If you go by that logic, not a single thread on these forums should last longer than one or two pages, have you ever taken a good look at this community?

[AdvancedWind]

No doubt, but this is going nowhere. Look around - very few here are taking this seriously. This thread is hurting the topic more than it's helping.

Those who were actually discussing seriously got bombarbed by "OK SURE BUT I AIN'T TALKING WITH YOU GIMME SOME REAL ADDICT TO DISCUSS WITH WHY ARE YOU ALL SO DEFENSIVE I MUST'VE HIT A NERVE".

[JackDaniels]

I didnt open this thread to have a debate about wether or not this is a legitimate addiction. Not every topic on every forum is an open invitation to argue you know?

[Leowilde]

If you go by that logic, not a single thread on these forums should last longer than one or two pages, have you ever taken a good look at this community?

I have. And it's practicly the same story every time. One person tries to say something sensible, whether that be listing the good things about the game instead of complaining or, like in this case, casting light on a well known problem, it turns into a feast of picking on other people. At the moment this forum isn't very well suited for this debate, as you can see. I would very much like your point to be taken by people, but this aint the place for it.

[Nuru]

Read the whole post Nuru. Overcoming does not equate to curing. Overcoming means ruling your own life, not letting your illness rule it for you.

Yeah i know that, but i still have limitations on the things I can and cannot eat, due to the illness. Its not ruling my life at all, but it still comes with a list of rules.