How To Overcome Video Game Addiction

I used to be addicted to video games. When I was in high school, I was shy, insecure, and I didn’t have a lot of friends. I used video games in order to escape how I was feeling inside. Being a video gamer almost destroyed my life but luckily I was able to rid myself of this destructive habit. Do you want to know how to overcome video game addiction? Join my Morning Ritual Mastery program that will help you change your habits and transform every area of your life: https://morningritualmastery.com/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=morning-ritual-mastery-promo&utm_term=how-to-overcome-video-game-addiction&utm_content=lc-youtube-description

In this video, Stefan shares with you how to overcome video game addiction.

This is something that affects people of all ages, especially teens and pre-teens. Studies estimate that 10-15% of gamers exhibit signs that meet the World Health Organization’s criteria for addiction.

The virtual fantasy world enables you to connect with real people through the Internet, as a substitute for real-life human connection.

Stefan used to spend hours/day playing video games. He was totally immersed in it. For him, it was a way to escape the real world.

Once he broke free of video game addiction, his life changed forever.

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Hey, everyone. Stefan here from projectlife

mastery.com. In this video, I’m

going to talk to you a little bit about

how to overcome video game addiction. Now,

video game addiction is something that

affects a lot of people, especially a lot

of young people. It was something that really

affected my life all throughout high school.

In fact, to give you guys an idea, I used

to spend literally from the moment that

I woke up to the moment that I went to

bed playing video games. I would play it

all day, everyday. I was totally immersed

in it. A lot of days during school where

I’ve skipped school to go home and play

video games. For me, it was a way to

escape. I think that’s ultimately

what I realized that pushed me over the

edge to want to make the change and get

away from it because the reality was, in

my life at the time when I was in high

school, I wasn’t a popular kid. I didn’t

have very many friends. I was very shy.

I was very insecure. As a result of

that, I would get picked on. I’d

get bullied from time to time. I moved

high schools quite a bit.

Often times, when you’re a weak target and

you don’t defend yourself, then

people will attack you even more because

they know that you’re not going to fight

back. They just see you as a

target to elevate themselves, to elevate

their own status and make themselves

look cool.

For me, I was very unhappy with my

life. I was very depressed and so I used

video games to escape because video

games is a different world. It’s a

different universe where you can be

whoever you want to be. You

could start from scratch.

You can create your own persona. You can

become very good at it. You can meet your

needs from significance. You can meet

your needs through connection and meet

friends, and feel like you’re

important and unique, and you’re somebody.

That’s what it was the case

for me because I felt like a nobody in

high school. I was insignificant to

everybody else but online,

because I spent so much time doing it,

I was the best. I remember

certain games that I played where I

literally was the best. I was the

guy that people looked up to.

I’d take out

everybody. I was a part of

different teams and whatnot.

I was very skilled so I felt very confident,

and it’s meeting my needs in

totally different ways. I was

living these two different worlds.

There’s real life and then there is

this fantasy world of online that didn’t

really exist, but it was just an illusion.

It was very detrimental for me, and

it can be very negative to a lot of

people because for me what it was doing,

it was forcing me

to escape the reality, the truth of my

life. Instead of confronting my life,

the problems, and the depression, and the

issues that I had, I didn’t face it. I

would just distract myself.

As a result of that, I would become more

antisocial, right? The more time

you play video games … It’s a very antisocial

thing. You’re just in front of the computer all day.

It was disconnecting me from real people,

friendships. It was just

also a waste of time when I look at it

as well because I looked at the years

that I spent playing video games in high

school, I looked back and I’m like, “Man,

what do I have to show for that?”

I got nothing to show for that. I spent so much

time … My high school years is

just a blur.

At the end of your life,

or 10, or 20 years, you’re not going to remember

these little video games and these

little adventures and stuff that you

went on that were so cool at the time.

You’re not building anything of any

value. I often think, man, if I spent

that time instead of playing video games,

I actually spent it improving my body, or

my emotions, or self-development or

building a business, man, I would

be like worth tens of millions of

dollars today if I had started that

process and the amount of time that I

spent doing that and just replaced it

with self-development. I often

think about that. I can understand

how it’s a problem because video game

companies, they’re designed to suck you in.

They’re set up in a way that all

your needs get met through these video

games, especially online games.

Online games are crazy now. It’s like

people date and meet each other and get

married online. It’s like all

your needs are being met online, and you

no longer need the real world. In

fact, with

virtual reality, the way it is now and

the way it’s going, I’m actually

very concerned about that because

virtual reality … Imagine a future

where you don’t need to live real

life anywhere because you could just

put on a virtual headset, and you can

live however you want to live in this

virtual world, especially the porn

industry now … I mean, the porn industry is

what built the Internet to where

it is.

I mean, with VR, the porn industry is

going to go to a whole new level. I’m

actually very hesitant with some things

because I know how addictive it can get.

You got to be very careful with that.

With that being said, how do

you overcome video game addiction?

How did I overcome it? Well, to give you guys

an idea, I overcame it when I was 17

years old. As I mentioned, it was like

my life all throughout high school. My

friends played video games. I had online

friends.

Even when I went to school, to

give you guys an idea,

on my breaks and lunch break, I played

video games. In fact, I remember times my parents,

my dad, they would try to ban me from

the computer. When

everybody went to sleep or my parents

went to work, I would sneak home

from school or I would get out of

bed to go downstairs so I could play video

games in the computer that we had. It

was a real big problem. How did I

overcome it?

Well, the way that you change anything

in your life is by making a decision, a

decision to change where you

decide that no more. You’re

going to cut this off for good, and

you’re going to pursue whatever else

instead.

Often times, in order for us to make

these decisions in your life, you have to

get to a certain point, a point that I

often call emotional threshold. It’s that

point where you just get to a point

where there’s so much pain associated to

the previous behavior, which is

video games, where you associate so much

pain to that that you finally make a decision

to change your life and get rid of it

for good.

You’re no longer going to look back. You’re only

going to move forward. For me, to be

honest with you, what sparked that change

when I was 17 years old was a girl.

When I was 17 years old, I was in love

with this girl

who actually I lost my

virginity to when I was 16 years old.

I was totally in love with this girl.

I thought she was the one. She broke

my heart. I was devastated over this. I

was in the position where looking at my

life then, there was girls in school that

I had a crush on, and I just didn’t have

any confidence to pursue them. There was

the cool guys that I’d see, the

popular kids. They would always

have girlfriends and then friends and

whatnot. I looked at myself and I was

like, “I don’t have any friends.” I was

just very depressed,

unhappy. It took me finally looking

in the mirror. Instead of escaping,

and trying to hide, and distract myself, I

looked myself dead in the mirror and I

said, “Never again. This has to change and

it will change right now no matter what.”

I looked at the mirror and I made a

decision that I will no longer ever

again in my life settle. I’ll no longer

settle for less that I can be.

I’ll no longer going to settle for a life

that I’m unhappy with. I’m no longer

going to settle being alone in my life,

not having friends, being insecure, not

having confidence, living this life.

What really pushed me

over the edge when I realized, man, what’s

my life going to be like in five years

from now or ten years from now if I

continue down this path? What’s

it going to be like? I’m going to be even more

alone, even more isolated, even more

unhappy with myself. The stacking of

that, that pain of facing the truth … I

believe guys the truth will set you free.

You get to the truth, man, you can change

anything in your life. Most people,

they don’t want to face the truth because it

hurts. It doesn’t feel good. It feels

uncomfortable because you have to admit

to yourself that you’re not enough. You

have to admit to yourself that

you’re not happy. If you can get to

the truth, you can confront that pain. That

pain can drive you to make that decision

to change and it did for me. When I

made that decision, I got rid of my

PlayStation at the time.

I got rid of it. I sold it. Got rid

of all my games. I got rid of my TV. I

remember that I didn’t get rid of the TV

right away but I just disconnected it.

I was like, “You know what? I’m going to

disconnect my TV.” I played online games

on my computer so I played a lot of

Diablo II. I sold my accounts. I got rid of

everything. I made like a hundred

bucks for these years that I spent

building up these accounts and stuff.

I didn’t really get much of a return for

it. I made that decision. Then,

often times, if you want to break free of

an addiction,

you got to replace it with an empowering

alternative. For me, what was that

empowering alternative? It was self

-development. It was realizing that I

could change. I was very blessed

because at that time of my life, I got

exposed to Tony Robbins and the whole

self-help industry. I realized that I

could improve myself. I can be who I want

to be. I can be that popular guy in

school. I can be that guy that

could date that beautiful girl.

I could be that person who’s

successful one day. The sky is the

limit. I got obsessed with

self-development. I replaced one

addiction for another. My addiction to video

games became my addiction to improve

myself, to change my life.

Specifically because I got hurt by this

girl and I went through a lot of pain

with that, I realize I’m going to make my focus

improving myself and developing

confidence, and social skills, and be able

to date attractive women in my life, and

to get a girlfriend. I got

into that. I replaced all of that

with this pursuit of self-development.

I’m improving my confidence, social skills,

dating skills. I remember at the time I

discovered David DeAngelo. He had a great

eBook called Double Your Dating. I read

this book like 20 times. I kid you not. I

printed out the eBook. I read it again

and again. I made total different

changes. I went out and I started

approaching women.

I went out to nightclubs when I was

19 years old, and facing my fears, and did

public speaking classes, and improv

classes. I read hundreds of books. I do

morning rituals and writing

up my affirmations everyday, and my life

changed.

That was the beginning

foundation of who I am today. I’m now 30

years old and I never looked back. Never

look back, guys. Now, has there been times since

where I’ve played some video games? Yeah.

I actually have a PS4. I don’t

play it much to be honest with you guys. I got

it more so because I enjoy now playing

socially with friends. I have

friends over for example. You could see my

TV back there. We’ll play like UFC

or NBA 2K. To be honest with you, I

actually get bored with a lot of video

games today, especially these like … I used

to love role playing games, but I get

bored of them now because they’re just

such a … It’s such a process, man,

to finish a game. The

amount of hours you got to put in is

just insane. There’s sometimes where

I’d play like a cellphone

game or something like that. I don’t

use it as a distraction.

I don’t use it … I think you

can have video games in your life. I

think if it becomes an addiction,

detrimental to your life, a distraction and

you can’t stop, and it’s destroying your

life, that can be a very negative thing.

I think having some balance can actually

be good. How do you overcome it, guys? It’s

making that decision. It’s getting to

that point where you decide that

continuing playing video games is

costing you in your life and it’s

creating a lot of pain in your life.

Coming to that truth and that realization

and associating to the consequences of

what this is costing you in your life.

How is playing video games everyday

costing your life? Well, I can tell you

this much. Playing video games everyday

is costing you money. You’re spending

money on it, but also you’re spending

your time, which is worth a lot of money.

In fact, you’re spending time which you

could use to build a business to make more

money to create the life that you really

want. In fact, often times I call your TV

or your video games, electronic

income reducing machine. The

more time you spend doing it, you’re

losing money. You’re losing the potential

of earning more money. Realizing that

it’s costing you money,

you’re wasting away valuable time that

you could spend improving yourself, going

adventures, learning,

having intimate relationships

with real human beings. All these

different things are incredibly valuable.

Also, it can link to

depression, and anxiety, stimulation

overload. Realizing the negative

consequences associated to it, getting to

a point where you decide, “You know what?

Never again.” You got to make a real

decision. A real decision has to be you

got to get rid of it. You got to get it out

of the house. Sell it. Do whatever you got

to do. Give it to a friend. Give it away.

Get rid of it. Sell your accounts. Close

it down. Get banned. Set up software so

that it disables you from even

using it. Again, you got to

replace it. Replace it with something

else. There’s going to be times where you’re

going to feel bored, or

stressed, or alone, or depressed and you’re

going to want to go to that crux that

you’ve used in the past which is video

games to escape and to feel good.

You got to have an alternative. The

alternative, you got to make a list. Maybe

the list is I’m going to read. I’m going to watch

a documentary. I’m going to go for a run.

I’m going to go to the gym. I’m going to go fo

a walk.

I’m going to take a bath. I’m going to get on

the rebound or I’m going to watch a YouTube video.

I’m going to do something more empowering

with my time to replace it. Guess

what’s going to happen. Now, the time

that you’re spending … There are positive

sustainable things that are going to

make you a better person in the process.

When you look back … For me, I

look back from 17 years old to 30 years

old today. The time that I spent, I spent

it wisely. I am who I am today

because of the last 13 years of my life

what I’ve done everyday, the rituals,

the books I’ve read. That’s made me who I

am. I’m excited about what

I’m doing today, what that’s going to

lead to another five, or 10, or 20 years

from now.

That’s the game changer,

guys. That’s how you overcome it.

That’s what worked for me. It’s got to

come down to that decision, and you

got to start to realize the pain that is

causing it in your life and associate to it,

create the alternative, associate

pleasure to that process and sure enough

you’ll develop a new addiction. That new

addiction will set you free and lead you

down the path of a lot more enjoyment,

fulfillment, less distraction. It’s going to

force you to go through uncomfortable

emotions that you don’t want to face and

confront. By facing it, you’re going to

become a better person in the process.

That’s my strategy. That’s my cure for

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