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How to Quit Gaming

Scollurio

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I’ll tell you WHY you should and then HOW you can do it!

I am almost a lifelong gamer myself, having started my “career” as a gamer on a C64. Yep, that’s ancient. I did quit gaming a while back and my life has been envigorated in a way I would never have thought possible before. Gaming in itself doesn’t have to be an addiction, but just like alcohol or cigarettes, it can be. Let me tell you why gaming can be detrimental to your life and why you should quit or at least massively cut back on it.

Why gaming is potentially bad for you

Gaming won’t turn you into a serial killer overnight, nor will it trigger you into a spasming mess of a human being. Unless of course, you’re already prone to go down that route anyways. Gaming is just a trigger like anything else can be, for people that are easily influenced. Not the games are the problem, the mindset/mental health of each and every individual potentially is.

Some people can eat tons of junk food without gaining weight, others will gain 10 pounds just by noticing the golden arches through the windshield. Some people might get triggered into being aggressive by videogames, some won’t. Same thing. But the people that do get triggered into violent behaviour by videogames, can and will be triggered by other things as well.

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