Gaming Addiction.net Founder Story

Gaming Addiction.net Founder Story – Dear Concerned Parent, Friend, or Gamer: I founded gamingaddiction.net after wasting ten years of my life on video games, computer games, online gambling, World of Warcraft, and finally Call of Duty spanning 10 years in total. My gaming addiction was the most harmful to my college grades and relationships resulting in lowing my GPA in college after having a 3.95 in high school, several failed relationships, thousands of hours of wasted time, and missed career opportunities. I never would have considered any type of professional treatment because I never felt that it was “wrong” or a “problem” to play 60 hours of video games a week, to skip class to play Planetside, to miss hanging out with a friend to play Call of Duty, or to cancel a date in favor of playing Rise of Nations. Looking back, it is hard to believe how committed I was to playing games no matter what else happened in my life. Regardless of jobs or relationships, I always found a way to fill my life with gaming. At different points, the games took different forms from text based games in college and massively multiplayer online games to online poker to strategy games, and then finally to xbox games. Even worse, what I really liked to do was play all night and/or drink while I played. Combined, this was a very destructive force in my life that prevented me from helping others and caused me to hurt the people I cared about consistently. How did I get my life on track? Read more at www.gamingaddiction.net

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