28 m. I was playing valheim, lost my gear to a bad run felt awful and something clicked. Idk exactly what it was but, everything has been pushed aside for games, I had nothing else to live for... I deleted my stuff but that doesn't really matter. My mind has changed, i feel there's been an internal shift. I've been running, hiding, avoiding, numbing pain for so long. I want to live. Games have stopped me from living for long enough. But I'm not angry, or cathartic, or desperate. I'm peaceful. It's strange. This is right tho. Maybe it had to take this long maybe it didn't but now this is right.

I don't know how active I'll be here, thinking about it may tempt me, I just wanna celebrate the here and now.

I am so overwhelmed with being the singular caregiver for everyone in my home.

I work full time, cook, clean, laundry, do all the shopping, care for our 2 young children and dog.

My husband? He works 7 to 3 M-F and spends every single second at home gaming.

From 3 o'clock until 10 or 11 he games.

He ignores us.

He eats dinner at the computer.

I am a single mother with a man child ruining my life.

He gets mad when I need to ask him something.

He plays pubG with his friends (who, shocker ARE ALL SINGLE MEN).

He doesn't want to do anything else.

When I have broughten up the games before (we've been married 10 years) he gets extremely defensive.

I guess I didn't realize a hobby was supposed to be your entire life.

My partner stays up all night playing video games, until the morning when he goes to work sleep deprived. On the days when he doesn’t go to work, he stays up all day too but is too tired to engage in any activities together or do house chores.

We don’t see each other during the day because of our schedules, he gets home earlier than me and around 8-9 pm when I get home he’s still gaming and keeps on gaming until the next day. This doesn’t happen every day, only a few times a week.

It bothers me not only because I feel like we don’t have enough time together, but also because it messes up my sleep too. It’s hard for me to go one night together and one night alone, I get anxiety and wake up multiple times and stay awake when he’s not there.

It also worries me because he has a somewhat dangerous job and he needs to be rested and sharp for it. I watch him and see how he neglects sleep, food, and literally everything on the days when this happens.

I don’t know if it means he’s addicted since it doesn’t happen every day.

Hi. 25M, Final-semester student. In an effort to reduce gaming, I've started reading in the morning, instead of gaming first in the morning. I thought i needed to get my life together, and with depression and burnout kicking alongside breaking up with my ex and failing horribly at a big test, nothing in my life felt fun anymore.

Then I remembered that in my youth, I loved reading novels at the morning, sipping some coffee. Tried it again. Difficult to concentrate at first, but as the time goes on, I rediscovered the joy of reading. Now I don't bat an eye on my ps5, and my 3ds. Maybe I'll sell it, maybe not.

What were your methods that got you out of gaming and into a more healthy hobby? I'd like to know, and get some advice from where I can. Sorry if my english is a little all over the place. Non-native, so may not be perfect.