How do you stop yourself from being addicted with video games?

Question

I'm to write an expository composition about video game addiction. I'm gonna need to research through Y! Answers 'cause my computer's malfunctioning and can't access heavy sites (like wikipedia or other encyclopedia sites). Please give me a long list of ways to stop yourself from video game addiction. At least 6 I hope. And I need the list ASAP.

The list can apply to anyone in any age, just say so. THANKS!!!!

--- Please don't give me links without info. You can copy & paste the info and put the source.

I need LOGICAL ANSWERS. PLEASE.

Answer 1

Get another hobby

Answer 2

This is coming from an ex-gamer who used to play MMORPG's, the games notorious for addiction:

1. Check yourself with reality: what will happen if you get the next little bit of progress? And then after that? And after that? Eventually, there's nothing to do, and all you can do is walk around and say you did it. There's no ultimate purpose. Of course, the same thing could be said about anything and everything, but that's a completely different philosophical debate.
2. Uninstall your games and get rid of them somehow. This can include giving them to a friend who won't play them or chopping the CD in half with a sword (I know people who have done both).
3. Play an instrument. I know that I haven't played games nearly as much since I started actively playing drums again.
4. Get a non-addicted friend to check with you every day or two to see if you've played games since you talked last.
5. Reserve time slots where you can play games, such as on the weekends. Be careful that you don't ignore other obligations during those times.
6. The 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous could surely be applied to games, as well. In fact, I'm pretty sure there are 12-step programs like this out there. You don't actually have to go to a group meeting like this; the steps are available online. A simple search will find them (I know they're on Wikipedia). If you want to be awesome, you could buy Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, and Octavarium albums, all of which include 1 song in Mike Portnoy's Alcoholics Anonymous music series (the songs are Glass Prison, This Dying Soul, and The Root of All Evil). That way, you could become addicted to virtuousic music instead of gaming =)

Like I said, this is coming from a former gamer. I can't stress enough the idea of finding something else to do besides games, and my first point really helps a lot, too.

Answer 3

I don't play MMORPG - online games that last forever. I play single player RPG. This is a long period of playing b/c it takes up to one week, 8 hours per day. If you search for hidden secrets and solve all the quest, it will take 3 weeks to complete the game.

If you play an online FPS - first person shooter - you can do it for 1 ,2 - 5 hours but after some time you get bored.

With adventure / RPG / RTS - it's more time b/c you have a story to complete and it's hard to stop before the end.

In conclusion, it depends of the game, if it's a single player campaign, you can finish the game in 24 hours or 3 days but if it's a multiplayer game like World Of Warcraft it can last forever, so you'll play a lot of time, there are people who died playing WOW.

Answer 4

I can tell you how I did it but I don't recommend it to anyone. I made some snacks, prepared some water bottles and overdosed on video games for 7 long hours. At the end of it I was totally exhausted and realized that there was a basic absurdity here and it wasn't just the 7 hours that had turned me into a complete wreck ! I was spending so much time and energy on these games that my skill level had become quite high but what did I gain ? No fortune, no fame - no gain what's so ever. I could hold my own in the top level but so what. Who really cares ? I decided I no longer did and quit.

Answer 5

First, since your question presupposed that you would like to stop before being addicted. Then, the best way is to stay away completely from it and do something more productive or useful for you. Even if you are already addicted you can still stop it by this same method, doing something equally self-exhausting and enteresting but more relevant to what you want to become.

Whatever that is that you want to become should be in your heart and mind all the time. Keep yourself busy with all those activities that relates to what you want to become. In other words, get addicted to what you want to become.

If your want to become a master in video game playing, then, you wouldn't call it addiction, it is an expertise! Just as you will be called an expert on anything that you want to become.

Becoming what you want to become is becoming.

Answer 6

Dear Defender_of_Gaiety
2 awoid a person 2 be so addicted with video games
he/she must play the game almost all the time,
so that he/she will get bored cause they might get
stuck in the middle part of the game.
Then they'll give up and find other thing 2 do.
hope this will help u.

Answer 7

technique a million: Say you play x quantity of hours according to day. 'x' being although long you do play. every day, take of 10 minutes, to 0.5 an hour. With that extra time, soak up a activity, or possibly connect a gymnasium or carry out a little learn for college. at last, you would be taking part in perhaps 0.5 an hour an afternoon and spending something of your day doing greater effective issues, which includes putting out with pals. technique 2: Get a mate or your mom and dad or somebody to take your controller(s) for a pair of days (perhaps a week) and then try to fill time via doing something greater effective. when you reside to tell the tale that week, have fun via taking part in perhaps particularly of call of duty, yet then repeat this technique, perhaps for an prolonged era. at last, your mate or mom and dad won't might desire to cover the controller(s) from you and you will clearly locate somethign effective to do and not often, if in any respect, play call of duty. technique 3: i seen an excellent one yet i forgot whilst writing technique a million and a couple of. yet wish those approaches help.

Answer 8

Here are the hopes for you , hope u will like it
1) Say no if anybody ask you to play with it
2) Go out and exercise
3) Walk away if anybody ask you to play with it
4) Draw pictures
5) Watching TV
6) Chatting with your friends
7) Invite your friends to play games
8) Read books because books can help to improve your english
9) Play ball game
10) Eat food
Write well :)

Answer 9

yeah, well i just had a paper to do on this video game addiction!!! some solutions that could be used are:
1. get a new hobby
2. go hang with friends
3. go excercise (walk, run, jog)
4. spend more family time
5. .......
6. idk


hope some of these help u!!!

Answer 10

The only way is to not play them because if you play, you know you won't be able to just play a little bit because it is addicting. Focus your attention on something else. Go out more, you can't play if you're out on the street.

Answer 11

4 me if i was addicted i would just go and buy like something else 2 take my mind of the video games. instead of buying a video game buy something else.