addiction?

is addiction to games bs or is it a real thing. if so how do you tell if some one is addicted

It is not BS!

I am an Everquest Addict! I spend 20-30 hours per week playing this game. EQ is my escape from reality! Player beware!!!!!

I hear that game is very addictive, but I dunno about that as I couldn't stand it, I'm sort of addicted to GTASA Right now but itll wear off eventually. Gawd I shudder to think how addictive a GTA:Online would be.

GTA-San Andreas is small potatoes when compared to a mmorpg like EQ. In my online virtual world of Norrath, I am with thousands of like minded individuals, and basically, trying to kill every one of them in the game, heh.

Necromancers are so rule!


OMG, i luv spaeking in dewd talk; i luv phat l33tS, pk'ing peeps, and other things to maek teh other pc's playing xperience totally hell-ridden, until they get to the point that they either log-off, or quit!

Originally posted by nathraq
In my online virtual world of Norrath, I am with thousands of like minded individuals,

I'd be scared if I could find thousands of like minded individuals, would be interesting though *glares into distance*

is addiction to games bs or is it a real thing. if so how do you tell if some one is addicted

Its true, people can get addicted to basically everything, computer games included.

Yeah i would say games can be addictive! I tend to get addicted to rpgs...because i want to continue the storyline!

*Bangs head against UK Wizard's sign* ....ouch

Yes they are addictive, last summer, i played diablo II 14 hours a day....

...i even become ill cause of it

14 hours a day!!! Bet that would make you dream about it lol, i remember a day when i spent around 17 hours on the ps and when i was trying to sleep all i could see was visions of the games i had played!

Originally posted by Eventuality
14 hours a day!!! Bet that would make you dream about it lol, i remember a day when i spent around 17 hours on the ps and when i was trying to sleep all i could see was visions of the games i had played!

same D LOL

i use to dream about diablo II :shk:

i played fatal frame 2 once till my eyes burned and i had a dream from hell

Originally posted by infinite

Originally posted by Eventuality
14 hours a day!!! Bet that would make you dream about it lol, i remember a day when i spent around 17 hours on the ps and when i was trying to sleep all i could see was visions of the games i had played!

same D LOL

i use to dream about diablo II :shk:

I hear you ! Diablo2 is an eviiiiil game....after a first dream i stopped playing it altogether

And yes games can be addictive....i know a guy that couldnt stop playing them once he started....he ended up in teraphy.

For me personally, playing games is a kind of teraphy and brain exercise

Hah -

I'm sure some of you will sympathise of my nights dreaming about little freaky monsters screaming "Rakanishu!" at me

It's possible to become "addicted" (in a psychological sense) to just about anything; playing sports, beating Tiger Woods on the PS, working out, you name it.

One word may make this whole thing easier to battle:

MODERATION, people

(Ok, two words. But the latter was redundant)

Last year I was playing Final Fantasy X 10 hours a day for a moth. Then I came to one of the bosses that I couln't kill no mather what. Angrily a went to sleep and I dreamt how I defeated him. I woke up turned on my PS2 and used my dream tactic on him and succeded.

After that I stopped playing games for 3 months.

LOL

my eyes have burned too when i use to play Diablo II ALL the time, i would dream about diablo, dream about rare items lol everything i looked at on the internet was diablo II related...

...lets just say, i wasnt the top player in Europe for nothing

No offense, but it's obvious that u can get addictive 2 games.

I'm addictive 2 both Halos, Operation Flashpoint, or just any good war game, and it's obvious 2 tell I am, just look at my posts in the Games BTS.

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:w:

Yeah, obvious.....

lol!

has anyone ever heard of some going though the td's for not play like they need a crack fix

Originally posted by DRAGON27
has anyone ever heard of some going though the td's for not play like they need a crack fix

No. DTs (delirium tremens) is a physical (and potentially lethal) form of alcohol withdrawal; less than 5% of patients on alcohol withdrawal will actually progress to DTs, and this is a good thing - it is NOT pleasant, and can, as mentioned, be lethal.

You cannot - and this bears repeating - cannot suffer DTs from a psychological addiction, although your body can certainly play tricks on you and "give you the shakes", as if you were.

ok whats that sezure warning fori havent heard of someone going into convoltions cause of a game

Originally posted by DRAGON27
ok whats that sezure warning fori havent heard of someone going into convoltions cause of a game

Then maybe you should research a bit more

Certain flashing images can trigger seizures amongst epileptics (diagnosed and undiagnosed), as well as certain other populations.

That's all

Originally posted by Tinkleflower


Then maybe you should research a bit more

i have seizures parshelcomplex,complex, pettymal, and grandmal. so i have done the research. look them up just you know im not full of it.