u/nickert0n

Something I wanted to share, is I had a traumatic child hood and I barely had a childhood at best.

Anyway not here to whine poor me, I wanted to just give context. I suffered from gaming addiction for a long time, and in conquring it finally I did it by doing something else that leads me to think why we get addicted to games in the first place.

I had to heal my inner child, that as in therapy and self work I have been working on all the things that I was robbed of or didn't have as a stable healthy child and when I was a kid I was dive into games to escape.

I "grew" up physically but had peter pan syndrome for a long time, and when I had a rough young adulthood I would escape to my trusty digital heroin everytime.

Well turns out, if you end up in a good place in life, with good people and a good wife and do the work in therapy, prayer etc and dive deep to fix your issues in other things, when you start to play games again you get this overwhelming feeling "What the fuck am I doing? I dont even enjoy this anymore, or I am wasting my time etc"

Basically what I figured out for me is that, I was playing games compulsively the first stage of my adulthood up until my late 30s because I didn't heal my inner child and I was hurting inside and it was what gave me comfort as child so it was natural to seek out while my inner child was in pain, furthermore I realized I was seeking out child like behaviors because I was robbed of such childhood/peaceful times in my childhood.

Now that I am working on my inner child and acknowledging him and giving him the compassion and understanding he needs I don't feel the need to waste time on colors on a screen stuck on little meta games within the great true game of life.

TLDR I have been healing my inner child and it is curing my video game addiction, I don't even want to play them anymore, any time I do out of habit I turn them off in like 5 mins because I dont enjoy it or see the point anymore.

I hope this helps at least one person. You can do it.