Long term consequences of a gaming addict?

Question by sk: Long term consequences of a gaming addict?
I’ve been trying to look everywhere (on the web) for answers, but everyone points out the obvious; of course you can isolate yourself, have sleeping and eating problems, become depressed when off the computer, etc. I’m want to know the long term impact once the addiction is gone.
I’ve been addicted to games all through middle school, and my low self esteem fed my addiction. I’m pretty through with it all, but being a very conscientious person I feel like due to my past addiction I’m very impaired in social skills and critical thinking and controlling emotions. At one point I seriously thought I had ADHD or something. There was one article I believe that said in one sentence that a 21 year old can only communicate like a 15 year old, and is awkward around the opposite sex. I think that’s like me. I have a tough time speaking my mind and getting to know the opposite sex, that it makes my college experience rather difficult. Anyways enough about me tell me more?
And I’m not sure if the reason why I got into gaming in the first place was because I was awkward socially, since I think I’ve always been pretty quiet (and whiny) ever since I was little..
And I’ve always had good grades (A-) but I’ve been lazy cause of grades so I could’ve gotten an A+..
Net psychologists are pretty useless sometimes..
btw I’ve been depressed the past couple days because of a paper I have to write…I absolutely hate papers..and I’m always intimidated by my classmates (it’s a tiny class).
Also I tend to have short term memory and forget important announcements from the teacher and can’t read fast enough. And when I read I forget 70% of what I just read. Don’t say that’s normal; my classmates don’t even take notes of their readings and manage to remember everything that happened while I barely have a f-ing clue of what I just read.
Oh, and I’m in college.

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Answer by Its all about you
yep your right a large number of people are doing this, 1 being myself lol, its not nice and i do admit it, my health and such has decreased but no much, social aspects wasnt my strongest point either which lead me to this, altho i love how games – online – like lores etc that i like and reasons i play, it hasnt effect me big time, but will in future. its now a daily thing in my life. with grades and such i was still able to get the highest, altho can get higher if i stopped playing. ill say, depends how addicted you are and if u think u should stop or not, personally me, i think ill be stopping in 2months time or so idk yet, remember if its really destroying your life then dont play, if it aint then play but be aware

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