How do I control my addiction?
Question by Kaka: How do I control my addiction?
Okay Football Manager is taking my life I wake up as early as I can to play it and go to bed late I’m doing my gcse’s but missing days off school even if I try not to play I get grumpy and start tapping how can i control my self
Best answer:
Answer by Dewdropmas
I think you have what is called a “process addiction.” It isn’t an addiction to a substance taken orally, but rather to engaging in a behavior that you can’t stop. Anyone who has become addicted to anything, substance or process, is going to feel miserable when they try to stop. You’ve experienced enough already to get that sense.
To be truthful, I think you are going to need help to stop. You might even need tranquilizing medication if after you’ve stopped a while, you begin to feel agitated and cannot sleep.
On your own, you can look up L-Theanine, which is a nutritional supplement that insures your brain will make an adequate supply of GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Having enough supplies of GABA in the brain helps people remain unruffled when circumstances in their life would otherwise cause them to become psychologically uncomfortable, unglued and dysfunctional. L-Theanine does not require a prescription, has no negative “side effects” and has been granted GRAS status by the FDA (Generally Recognized as Safe by the Federal Drug Administration.) It is safe. You don’t feel anything when you take it, and cannot tell that you have taken it, but you just don’t become as agitated in situations that tend to produce agitation.
If you continue abstinence from gaming, and find you cannot sleep, on your own you can use another nutritional supplement called Melatonin. Read up on it by putting “Melatonin” in the search engine at Mercola.com.
I doubt you will be able to confine your gaming to the few hours a normal person might play computer games. To stop the addiction, you’ll need to stop gaming. If you find that you simply are unable to stop, then you can go to a medical clinic, one that has a walk-in department, and ask for help. Report to them honestly what your symptoms are. Depending on what you present to them, they may simply prescribe tranquilizing medication, or, they may set you up to see an outpatient counselor, or they may suggest hospital admission to get you over the hump. Do whatever they recommend to you in order to get beyond this stage, which as you can already tell, promises to become very uncomfortable no matter if you quit gaming or not.
Read more about process addictions and treatment of them here:
http://www.recoveryranch.com/treatment-issues/process-addictions/
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