I was awoken today very early by a phone call from a guildie, one of our other guildies had passed last night. It was horrible news but expected news, she often spoke about how bad off she was. She’s been in bad health for a while now. She was overweight, diabetic, high blood pressure, ate terrible, and her life revolved around video games. She did nothing but spend her days playing games, she’d boast it.
Many WoW players are addicted to this game. nearly their whole existence revolves around the game, so much so that some of those players spend their whole work day or non-work day even on the forum. There are some posters who have as much as 3 months of read time just on this new forum, that’s 3 months of your whole life sitting here scrolling down the forum.
A lot of WoW players spend an enormous amount of time in the game. I have some guildies and friends that no matter what time you log on you’ll more than likely see them. Many times they aren’t even doing anything in the game, they are just mindlessly hanging out and people watching.
Don’t let this game, any other game, or any forum take over your life. Keep your physical health and mental health up to par. Go outside, exercise, try to eat right, have other hobbies, make real life friends outside of the game, spend time with your family, do anything active other than spend your life revolving around video games. If you keel yourself busy and do something other than something related to games you’ll be healthier both mentally and physically.
Your mental health is important too. Don’t get worked up over social media because like a famous black comedian said in his recent special “Twitter isn’t a real place”. Always remember that only the mentally ill have a blue checkmark twitter account, they’re loud there because it’s the last place they can shout like a lunatic without normal people telling them they need to seek help.
It’s good to keep these things in perspective, but I think it’s also important to keep in mind that sometimes people have troubled lives and gaming is one of the few ways they have to feel peace.
Like always, everything needs to be in balance. Any hobby that errs into obsession will lead to self-destruction.
people wrongly assume others are as young, able bodied, with great mental health with no depression/anxiety/personality disorders. i am not sure if i envy being that naive or if i feel bad that their life experience seemed to rob them of compassion. not directed at anyone in the thread. the entire internet is filled with them.
It’s not worth arguing about with you, as much as I’d like to. If you feel that the only thing you can do is play video games and sleep in life, then have at it. There’s something else you can do though, even reading or art. You can do something other than engulf your entire life to a video game. It’s astonishing that you think someone has no choice but to do nothing other than video games.
i didn’t read for like 8 months this year because was so bad. i’m now over 120 things read on my good reads. i do lots of things, as i am able. but you’re not always able. and your post is a prime example of how some of you don’t understand. i have bipolar disorder. there are times my depression is so bad i can’t even get out of bed except to eat or go to the bathroom. be grateful you apparently won the genetics lotto. we all weren’t so lucky.
Though I share your concern ,there are people with disabilities that play this game and people like me who are retired after years of work . We have a life that is different from working class people and do want this game to spend time on.
As for health, that is an issue of stale life style ,I keep busy all the time no matter what the problem is I’m working on something beside play a game 24/7. How do I do it ,well no sleep.
this thread has a 50/50 shot of getting me a forum vacation at this point. took a long break. came back to the same “pull yerself up by the boostraps” crap that’s always here. lol.
i wonder if i’d get flagged down for posting the definition of “ableism”
I’m so sorry to hear of her passing. Rest in peace
WoW is deadly to those with that mindset too. I’m not saying I know where her mind was but when I was in my most depressed state I neglected myself without really realizing it. Years ago, I was getting underweight, checked 108 lbs n thought meh, and the next time I got on that scale just to see I went down to 96 lbs. I wouldn’t cook or even eat anything most of the time because I’d be too into playing/didn’t wanna do anything. It was like my brain was poisoned and I stopped caring entirely
I’m no expert n not sure if its that bad but I’m saying this as someone who weighed 115 lbs when I was 13(my height has barely changed since) now in my 20s
essentially you’re using a friends passing to troll GD with ableist rhetoric. you have no idea what anyone else is capable or not capable of doing. worry about yourself.