I quit SC2 6 months ago because I had too

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Hey just dropping a msg to say that I had to quit SC2 about 6 months ago becaue of how addicted I was to it.

It was very unhealthy for me, I would be extremly anti-social and use all my available time outside of work just to play SC2. I was extremly addicted, I was always moody and wanted to play it all the time or as much as I could lol.

I would skip doing other important things in life just to play it. So for my own good, I decided to uninstall it.

But 6 months later, I still have withdrawals ;(

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Learn to do things in moderation. There are general surgeon colleagues of mine that work 80-100 hours a week in high stress situations able to get master league with 2-3 games every few days.

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I feel the same about world of warcraft.

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At least you acknowledge it and had the will to take steps and curb something that you feel has been negatively affecting your life

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No joke, I almost failed out of college because of the 1st StarCraft. People weren’t kidding… once you play that game, you don’t go to work or do your homework for weeks. :frowning:

I got Sc2 back in 2011. When I had to reinstall Windows, I deliberately left it off. It was the right call. I’ve picked up Sc2 again in recent years, doing Coop mode. I just play it at a video game lounge (albeit, out of town). FWIW, I haven’t upgraded my PC since then, and it’ll probably worse since I haven’t done much with it in terms of performance tweaks.

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Unreal.

I wish I could do that but everytime I tried to play only a few matches, my blood kept rushing and kept telling me one more. Then one more, then one more again and before you know it 4-5 hrs pass and I havent done anything else that I was planning to. Like cooking, cleaning etc. And then I would feel crappy because I didn’t.

Happend to me so many times like this. So I decided I will just quit it cold turkey. I felt bettwer for the first few weeks after, but I still get the urger to fire it up again after all this time, but try very hard to stop myself because I know I will become very addicted and anti social again.

Btw getting master was not the problem. I was always in masters 2v2 (random team), getting Rank 1 was what I was aiming for and pretty much always got close to it.

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Same dude. I had to stop playing for a few months because of this. I eventually learned moderation, but I understand how addicting it can be. I’m glad you realized what was going wrong in your life and took action to fix it. Good luck dude, learn from your past mistakes <3

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I’ve been on a bit of a hocstreek in recent weeks, playing hard on Coop until I started to suffer right wrist pain and soreness on my index finger from all the middle mouse pushing to pan around.

Thankfully, I have a series of yoga moves to help avoid any chronic conditions. And have started playing more MTG Arena to alternate days on StarCraft, so I understand the need to game. I do not think suffer to much from gaming addiction though, so I don’t know much I can say on what others are going through.

That said, it’s great to see y’all are able to find and escape. How do y’all handre gaming pain?

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i usually get tired of games and as such i rarely get addicted. if however you get addicted, you should seek out a psycologist.

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If someone generally believes their day to day living and health is affected by gaming addiction, I would have to agree.

People could just ween off of it over time. That’s the best way. Cold turkey is bad, very bad.

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Yea, i don’t know how long takes to suffer the withdrawal from SC2, but usually the DT attacks hit you after 48 hours…

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With blink.

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I ment not Dark Templars but…Delirium Tremens.

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Now that’s worth a lol.

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Look at you, making an effort to relate to my medical field. Brings tears to my eyes.

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I have to do no effort at all. As about “your Medical Field”: Surgery and the way of treating severe cases of withdrawal (beeing Alchoolic or other forms), one has no need to be Dr. House (real imaginary Genius) to understand that there is no connection whatsoever.

You have no reason to feel humiliated. There is a reason why there are 30-40 separate directions where medical-doctors are prepared.
Being a surgeon - let’s say a heart-surgeon does not qualify you to perform eye-surgery or … extracting a molar…

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All physicians in medical school are taught to have a foundation in all fields of medicine, meaning that they are equip to deal and interpret a large amount of health issues. There is a foundation that is built upon as a physician, that is extremely vast and in depth. Of course, when you specialize you cannot delve into eye surgery as a heart surgeon, but your foundation and overall knowledge is still present.

In medical school, regardless of heart or eye surgeon, you take the same anatomy courses, same physiology, same biochemistry, same radiology, etc.

Any physician should be able to adequately diagnose, and treat, various issues such as diabetes, withdrawals, etc.

Actually, physicians of all types can extract a mole. Dermatologists can extract a mole, but guess what, even your family physician can extrapolate a mole.

That is part of the foundation medicine. I can adequately look at a mole, and, extrapolate it, diagnose, treat, and set up a plan of treatment if I so desired. Why won’t I do that as a surgeon? Well, for reasons that would take a long time to discuss, but it depends on various things such as:

1.) do you have a laboratory nearby that can adequate look at moles that have been biopsied?

2.) Is the mole one where someone more specialized should be looking at it, even if you are qualified? (patients best interest you or a dermatologist?)

3.) Would you make money doing said procedure in a timely and reasonable fashion when it really isn’t part of your main specialty?

Now, can someone who does heart surgery do eye surgery? Not likely, but that is outside the foundation of medicine and more into the actually specialty.

So don’t think physicians are so specialized they can’t cross over and understand the foundation of other specialties, but there is a limit at some point.

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Mr. Crusade! First time you diagnosed a Dark Templar when i mentioned Alchool withdrawal (in Chronical Alchoolism means usualy DT -----> Delirium Tremens), then you went into a long way of removing moles when i mentioned…“extracting molars” that are quite another thing.

Dermatology and Stomatology are as far-apart as in Military matters Submarines and Ground-Mines deactivation…

P.S No matter what our conflicts in SC2, i congratulate You in your Field of Study and wish you luck.

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Haha oops, I never really think about molars. Dentistry is a forgotten land in my field. So I automatically thought of moles. Its been a long day.

I like to debate, so this site affords me an outlet to do. Plus, SC2 has been a hobby that has saved me through many times. After 8 hours of studying medicine, its nice to look forward to something, and that something is a nice couple games of SC2, or to at least be a spectator for GSL, WCS, etc.

Thanks for the kind words. I will still talk TvP when the moment spurs without holding back. I can’t be too agreeable on here. :no_mouth:

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ahhhhhh!!! I’m EXACTLY the same way. I hate it. I want to smash my computer. everytime i uninstall it i get big time withdrawals. I have no ability to play casually. too competitive. uninstalling now. :confounded: :persevere: :weary: