Comments on: Does it Have to be Cold Turkey?

By: Neils Clark

Neils Clark — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:44:32 +0000

Thanks for the posts. Games can pull you in with the happy fun time brain sauce, and with factors that we’ve never really seen before, let alone scientifically explored.

Dreaming of WoW is interesting. I would say, unlike some other people studying online addictions, that a dream isn’t necessarily a sign of addiction. It honestly depends on the dream. About four years ago I’d play Counterstrike for upwards of 14 hours a day, and I remember that as I closed my eyes to go to sleep, I would sometimes see images of counter-terrorists that had been burned into my eyeballs. Probably not the best for my eyeballs.

To Jin - I hope that the article helps.

To anybody reading - I’m not a therapist, but I have been researching this. If you have questions, then you’re more than welcome to email me.

By: Jin

Jin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:36:19 +0000

Thank you for this article. Game addiction is real.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:59:10 +0000

I left WoW in December 06 after spending 2 years playing with increasing fervor. The 1st 3 weeks out I would go wowdetox.com to keep up the motivation to stay off, then I would physically spend more time with friends that did not play. Recently though I have had strong urges to return as I have been spending time again with friends that play. My urges returning are now the fuel to keep me away. I uninstalled it and threw away the game cd’s and game guides and deleted all my wow related links out of my favorites folders and have abstained from gameplay despite dreaming of being in game and watching videos of gameplay.
Ironically, I still check the WoW forums and some of those WoW database info webpages and find that reading the flaming posts are excellent encouragement to walk away like a reverse-role model.

By: Craig Ferguson, and my own recent gaming problems at neils clark

Craig Ferguson, and my own recent gaming problems at neils clark — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:17:25 +0000

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By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:56:13 +0000

” Come on man, just install it and play for likeâ€¦ two hours a day. Yeah man, ooooh, thatâ€™s the stuff”

It’s exactly how it works with me, and it was hard to convince myself that this was not me, but my dopamine, who was saying that.