Well, my day is quite weird here at work. (using common emojis available here)

Last night which turned into this morning:

1. Got no sleep at all playing Minecraft, I know the alarm went off sometime today but don't recall hearing it just remember my corpsey body getting dressed for work. (Addiction #1 Minecraft- building my dream island/home) Working on a semi automatic brewing station

Thus far, Gaming addiction = no sleep
 = 


2. Addiction #2: Coffee: Sitting at work sipping on coffee and coffee every day every morning  

No sleep = coffee binge x 2
  =  x 2

So Gaming Addiction = no sleep + coffee binge
=  +   x  2

3. Addiction #3: Vizzed: Must log in! Since computer is away at the Dr. I am having to use work computer.

Thus Vizzed Addiction - home computer =  - work productivity 
 -  = -


Work Productivity = sleep + no gaming at work
=  + 0 x 

So, today is a combination of:

 no sleep > work productivity - Vizzed Addiction which yields an increase on Posts
 +  x 2 >  + 0 x  +  -  = +


Would bother to check the math but, I think coffee + no sleep = - math logic
 +  X 2 = 

Sure many of you can relate!
Not so healthy!! 

Yeah, I've been there. Sometimes I even pretended to go to bed and secretly stay up until the sun came up so I could play games while my mom went to work and everyone else was asleep

Originally I was taught to go to bed at 10:30 PM, and now that it's so many years later I find myself going to sleep around 6 or 7 AM lol.

I used to stay up 24/7 but I don't do that anymore. I'm surprised I managed to wake up around 11:30 AM today~

I'm also addicted to coffee as well, it's like the best thing ever. I also love the way caffeine makes me feel so I drink a lot of soda too, and getting high on sugar is nice as well.

I'm far from healthy, yeah, but I'm not too worried about it even if I should be. I'll probably chance cuz I'll have to if I want a job, but that's not for a couple more months or a year.

As for vizzed though, I'm not really addicted to it. I hang out with my friends all day on steam so that kind of replaces vizzed. But I can still sympathize with you that vizzed can certainly be addicting.

I've actually had this happen to me far too much. Eventually, you'll get it under control, because at the end of the day, you won't really have much of a choice. I've kept much better tabs on time as of late, because if I don't, it WILL backfire. BADLY.

I actually also like coffee a lot, and have been frequently drinking it. I've just been leaning more towards the decaf if I'm looking to hit myself with my second or third cup for the day. The last thing I need is to get the jitters before a class. I'm already hyper enough as it is.

I can somehow relate to the gaming addiction. It hasn't impacted my life negatively, but I do feel I'm spending too much time playing while I should be doing something more productive.

For the coffee addiction, be very careful. The brain can only absorb so much. What you need is better planning, like start writing an essay as early as possible. And if it's required, make sure you start your bibliography right from the start!

I can somehow relate to that as well. I used to be absorbed with any game I played, which made me forget about anything else. However, I ended up limiting the amount of time I spent playing videogames, and while I still feel absorbed, I've kind of secluded myself from playing too much. I haven't completely gotten over it, but now I display it to a much lower degree, which of course has had a ton of benefits for my real life.

While I'm not really addicted to Vizzed, I always come in when I'm bored to see what's new. I can spend my day without logging in safely, but I have to log in at least daily so I don't miss any news. It can become addictive for what I've mentioned above with videogames, but luckily the couple systems I play the most put a big strain on my computer, so I have one more reason to limit my play time.

I don't know what will be the next thing that absorbs me, but coffee sure won't be it. I tried it for a time, but didn't like it much and eventually ditched it out. I also don't understand why caffeine has no effect on me, I'm able to drink three cans of Cola a day and still sleep for a long time during the night.

I get like four-seven hours a day, except on weekends where I sleep in as much as I can.
No caffeine
No energy
High school sucks.
And today I lost my ipod which is how I wake up, so I'm basically screwed. I'm hoping I wake up to the alarm clock but last I tried I don't.

I think everyone goes through periods of this... Honestly.. 

Myself personally.. well it's a bit different...

I have insomnia, so i'm pretty much in a constant state of not having a "productive" brain

Add that to the fact I've had depression for about 8 years now.. and i don't really feel like doing anything...

I'm also medically unfit to work, so yeah i pretty much sit around doing nothing all day being bored and mentally dead inside... whilst putting up with the delights of seizures and the like. 

As for having an addiction to vizzed... Nope.. i come here to see what people are posting.. I read a lot, but only post when i feel i have something to say about a thread etc... it's honestly just more to do with courtesy.. I'd rather have an actual interest in a thread than pretend i do etc... 

Either way.. there's a lot of people that do things daily and regret it the next day... and some of them are definitely based around "video games" ;P

I've battled with this at times, although these days it's not nearly as bad as it used to be.

Back when I was a serious raider and playing WoW pretty much exclusively, I would often stay up way too late, then only be able to get a small amount of sleep before work.

Then there were tons of times in college staying up way too late playing PS1, or even PS2 RPG's after graduating. Thankfully as I've gotten older I've been able to distance myself from doing this, although it still happens from time to time if I get a new game that I'm really into.

yoshirulez!It's weird because only since my recent move have I been staying up for so long. I couldn't make it past 11:30pm and now I hours seem to just fly by and before I know it, it's another day lol. I really like coffee mostly mornings now have cut it off from my afternoons and evenings just to minimize it. Yeah, working and doing this tends to suck lol but, when all you do is work gaming until the morning does not sound so bad after all...except going to work XD  How do you function? I feel like a zombie lol.

SWTerraOddly enough I barely relied on coffee to get me through college! Now to get me through work is a must. Woah third cup? Yikes, I'll see you at the Caffeine Anonymous.

 janusYes, coffee was actually very bad before- I had to have 3-5 cups a day of very strong coffee now one cup does it for the most part except days like that where I get too into something I am building and can't go to bed I just obsessed over getting it done so at work I am merely a walking corpse with a coffee IV. lol. I have opted out for drinking Folgers and barely putting any coffee into it mostly water or buying vanilla ice coffee from McDonalds. 



EX PalenI've been gaming for years and always had a few hours and then back to cooking and other things. Now, with the Xbox One and Minecraft I seem to just not be able to stop playing it lol. I like the idea of building and creativity and unfortunately where I know live I can't build much or make many changes which used to be something I did at my old place- always handy around the apartment so I think I've put that into the game and since I have just been introduced to it three months ago and bought it a month ago, I feel that I keep finding new things to do and since I don't play alone, I have my neighbor over I just get so into it that sleep is such an inconvenience lol. I would not mind getting paid to game. Yeah, this place has so many great games that I had completely forgotten about. I keep finding more. Caffeine keeps me awake in the morning when I haven't had much sleep yet I can drink a ton of caffeine at night and still go to bed fine- odd. First person I meet that does not like coffee! What kind have you tried?



SeveredGodGearWeekends, I barely log in to Vizzed given that those are my only days off so I have to play adult and go handle bills since I paid them weekly rather than monthly which keeps me busier but, helps me manage my budget way better as I waste less money. That's usually when I want to game the most. I still haven't been able to since I've been traveling quite a bit so I am putting all that time to the weekdays when I work so I need to make a balance there. High School I founded to be more stressful and difficult than college- college to me was a breeze yet high school and middle school were very tough on me. So, trust me it gets better. I was excited during my first year, I just kept saying Freedommm. Oh that sucks, I can 100% relate, my iPod is about seven years old and it has so many songs and that thing goes with me anywhere I have lost it a billion times and somehow managed to find it when I was no longer looking for it so now I keep it in my car at all times so I know where to find it. Music is the best specially when gaming or relaxing. I have an old fashion alarm clock you know the extremely annoying loud beeping noise, and it wakes me up early, well, I wake up early so I can beat the alarm and turn it off before it goes off even if it's just a minute I rush to it to turn it off lol So, it works I guess. Have you traced your steps?



Tyrian DeliriumCan you explain what's like to have insomnia? How that affects you? I date someone with insomnia and I feel that I never really understood it. I have been battling depression for years now; I had bad panic attacks and anxiety from age 8 and those faded away over time. However, I still battle depression and anxiety daily. Anxiety has led me to game more as I feel more in control and relaxed but, it cause a lot of problems in my last relationship. Depression hit me hard two years ago, I left my home and basically ended up homeless for a bit and lost contact with everyone including my family. After that, I have gotten a lot better and it still causes problems but, never like that again. I am sorry to hear that, work can help a lot as a distraction. Have you thought of streaming? Twitch I find that a lot of people do it as a job and it really helps them. In that I agree, I only post for things I am interested in and know about. Hence I don't post much in Game Reviews, Guides, and the like as I feel out of my element there... As long as regret only involves video games, I think we're good lol



Jordanv78That's the hardest part. getting to bed to then wake up almost immediately it feels, to head to work. The day seems to drag on forever. lol that's my problem now, new game lol. I think as an adult it can be a bit challenging since you don't have anyone to tell you get off the game already so you go on forever.

jlove92 : be careful with those iced coffees, they are usually insanely sweet. It might cause *other* sorts of problems in the future; plus they probably get expensive in the long run. 

You should also learn to "let it go." I know it can be hard, but your life (usually) doesn't depend on games

janus : Funny you mention the sugar content, today's coffee made me not want to buy anymore of them- someone put a ton of sugar in it and all the coffee grounds were at the bottom it was a nasty sip. .  Yeah, unless you're making a good living streaming video games aren't paying the bills much. It's a good past time; unless OCD is present lol. 

Oh gosh, I used to be that way all the time, and worse. When I was a kid, I would get up, grab a bowl of cereal (sometimes several) and sit in front of the television playing games (usually N64 or PSX). I would proceed to sit there gaming all day, and would only stop to eat dinner, use the restroom, shower (and only when forced to. I would go days without showers because I didn't want to stop gaming so I could do anything. Yeah), and to sleep when my mom absolutely insisted I go to bed. So literally --aside from sleeping-- I spent probably an hour a day not gaming. It was bad. When my brother wanted the console, I grabbed my Gameboy. Gaming every possible waking moment. In fact I remember getting rather angry with an ad in a game magazine I bought during that time because it was an ad for a hotline for people who wanted help breaking serious and detrimental addictions to gaming. Got mad like it was printed as a personal attack to me, and thought it was a ridiculous thing to say. "Do you know when the game ends?" (or something along those lines) Psh, please. Yeah.

This all had a very detrimental effect on my life. I was extremely obese, and unable to function socially (remember, this was before online gaming with others, so I played single player most of the time).

Furthermore my lifestyle actually left me so emotionally undeveloped that I didn't hit the stereotypical teenage emotional issues until I was in my early twenties, I never had any sort of even halfway relationship with a girl, not even telling one that I liked them...or even talking to them, until my early twenties, and as a result I was unable to handle any romantic inclinations toward a girl. I nearly went crazy when the first girl I was serious about didn't feel the same, I nearly ruined my next friendship because again I couldn't manage feelings, and I still struggle to control my emotions when I meet a new woman that I'm interested in and immediately go all in with my heart and battle to keep myself from falling for her completely in a matter of weeks. Before even dating! I'm getting better, but it's been a hard battle. I had to mature through all of my teen and young adult years in about three or four years, and that was a nightmare.

Literally, my previous lifestyle halted my emotional growth past young childhood (like eight or nineish I'd say).


Back to the addiction period itself:
I lived like that for years, and finally quit gaming altogether. "Cold Turkey" if you will, for religious reasons. That was a huge plus for my life and I only managed it with a heavy reliance on God, though I do realize now that I could have kept gaming and just exercised some moderation. Regardless, I didn't touch a game from age fourteen to age twenty two.

When I finally got back into gaming I had gained a lot more self control and have almost never binge gamed since except for when my nephew comes over and wants me to play PS4 all day until he leaves (usually four or five hours). But that hardly counts since it isn't exactly relaxing gaming with a six year old usually. Lol "Change games!" "I want to go over there; can you get me over there?" "Can you get past this hard part so I can do the fun stuff?" you get the idea.


However there are times that I binge game for my own enjoyment, and today was one of those days: I played Race The Sun on my PS4 for roughly six or seven hours. The last time I binge gamed before today was on Christmas Eve last year when I played Disney Infinity all day with my nephew and about six hours after he left, building toyboxes for him to play in. Before that? I can't remember, it was that long ago. Binge gaming is all well and good, just not when you do it as badly as I did before. I understand that now.


I'm glad to have those days behind me, and that I found a way to enjoy gaming in a healthy manner. I could easily lapse back into gaming all day everyday, but I just don't want to anymore. I'm now able to work on projects, work out, have real relationships (read: real friendships with real people), balance a spiritual life, and have non-gaming downtime. It feels good to be in control of myself and be productive and healthy.

Too heavy? xD


Also, coffee? Ick. No. Lol

I've never been that bad; the latest I stayed up gaming was about 12:30~ one night and I only stopped becuase my eyes were starting to un-focus (I had gotten up early that day). Browsing the internet though... uhh, past 2 AM if I'm being honest :p When I was little and had just recieved my first ever handheld (Gameboy Advance SP) I actually managed to hurt my neck playing it so much. Yes, it is not a myth that you can hurt your neck from playing video games to much (or reading, drawing, anything that requires you to hold your head in a fixed position for hours on end). When I started on WoW my mother actually had to ban me from the computer until I had done some simple things, namely; eat breakfast, shower, brush teeth. If I was going to quest I might as well do it with a clean body I guess. I still binge game on the weekends though. Get me a box of oreos, a couple bottles of water, and something to help keep my PS3 cool and I could sit there from dawn to dusk.

EirinnWoah you sir were a gaming wiz. That was a lot of gaming.I would probably end up with a major headache and not be able to get up from my bed. “Do you know when the game ends?” …. Pss yeah when I beat the boss so let me finish these next 5 hours. Lol.

In all seriousness, gaming seemed to consumed a lot of your time and I can see how it hindered your social progress and relationships.

This is what happened to my brother; it wasn’t until the twenties when he started flirting and taking interests in girls. Even know he is still very shy and takes a lot for him to finally decide to approach a woman. Oh wow eight years! That’s really good considering how

much time you spent gaming. It can really take a toll in your life if no balance is created. I am glad to hear you managed to create that balance as well as start catching up with social norms and dating. Dating alone to me takes time and practice so, to have not spent that time learning it does create problems were you are dating someone your age and it seems you both are not at the same level. However, with communication all that can be overcome. LOL To me it’s the opposite; when I game with my nieces and try to plays Nintendo DS with them I just suck so bad at it they usually come to my rescue. Never really got into Gameboy and the handheld devices for gaming and to me it’s like a new world when I play with them and their game selection. Gaming in all honesty can also help stay away from “harm’s way” as my mother says. The most I have spent gaming was when I made this post- played Minecraft for 12 hours then, off to work I went. It’s not something I would do often again just because of how restless I felt. I have had other binge gaming before in high school playing Mario but, once I beat the game I didn’t really pick up another one and continued but, rather went on to do more social things. So, to me is more of starting a new game that I like and wanting to accomplish as much of it as possible- OCD I would say. You seem like you got it all figured out now ;-)  You sir unlocked Balance Mode! I’m glad to hear that and in my case, faith and perseverance tend to be the two I rely on when facing a hard time as well. I think my brother and you would probably cause a major electricity shut down if yall ever gamed together lol.Really?! So you stayed awake all that time and no coffee.How so?





Chindogu Oh yeah I believe you , being there done that. Gosh actually another game I obsessed about- when Wii first came out I played Samba which is a game with really groovy and fun music and you have to shake the maracas to match pattern on the screen- I literally played it so much I could not use my hand for two days as my wrist was in so much pain. But darn it I would go right back to it.

I would get up early and get those things out of the way before my mother even got to say anything lol. For me it was soda and Cheez It and would play Mario with my bestie for a good 7hours. We skipped school one day and beat the entire game- good times. It seems we all have some interesting gaming stories! 

Heh, yeah I was flat out hardcore addicted. And that's about how I felt when I saw that ad as well: It ends when I put the controller down for bed. Duh. xD I can laugh at it now.


And...eh, dating is something I still haven't done. Too many remaining issues to work through even still. Even after I quit gaming it took me years to fully identify and accept all of the damage that had been caused by my lifestyle. I'm happy to say that I believe I am currently working through the last few. It isn't easy though.

Moral of the story: anything taken to too much of an extreme can be disastrous.


Your brother certainly sounds like someone I could identify with in ways, and for our own sakes let's hope he and I never meet in an online game or we might be there for a while. xD jk You on the other hand...Minecraft isn't my thing, so we're good. Lol


And I don't really know how I did it without some sort of caffeine. I've always had a lot of energy (odd for someone who spent years sitting in front of a screen only moving their eyes and hands, right? Lol) and as a result I still get by on far less sleep than I should get because I struggle to make myself go to bed and settle down. I'm not hyper medically speaking, I just can't help thinking about what I could accomplish with a little more time before sleeping. And well, you never know what you might miss when you're asleep!


Yeah, I still semi-binge when I get new games, but like we both said, that's controlled and I finally can set the controller down whenever I want or need to so it's cool.


As for handheld gaming, I never was big on it either, but it was a way to keep gaming when my brother wanted the console. Lol I do find the PS Vita to be a handheld that I really enjoy now though. It finally closed that gap between handheld convenience and console quality I think. I still prefer console usually, but I will play it before anything else except my PS4. But for the most part I wouldn't call myself a handheld gamer either, again, with the exception of the Vita.

And pointless fact: to give you an idea of how much I missed during those years away, the last games I played before quitting were Harvest Moon: Back To Nature, and Metal Gear Solid V.R. Missions. Both were relatively new. When I came back the PS3 and Xbox 360 were halfway through their life cycles. That's one and a half generations. When I left things were still blocky and pixelated, and when I came back characters looked almost life-like. O________O What sorcery is this??? xD

Eirinn : I can see how that would have been quite shocking in a good way. To go from pixels to let's say Halo graphics that's quite a change. Yeah I can't get into handheld devices at all I am not sure as to why. Closest to it is my WiiU gamepad and that's about it. 

Eeh dating has its great perks but also its downs so to me now I don't really care much to date just take it as it comes. 
I like a lot of games overall just stuck on Minecraft right now because of how much creativity can be used in the game and well playing with other people makes it more appealing. But, I wasn't a minecrafter before at all just got into it about two months ago.

Usually prefer shooting, zombies, racing, apocalyptic, Mario, Zelda, Borderlands type of games so this was something completely new to me. 

Agree 1000%; I will always be a console person or PC before I get to handheld devices. Always hated those things lol screen is so small and me having really poor vision it made things really frustrating. I need a big screen. 

I have an addictive personality, so I can over-do just about anything that makes me feel happy or excited. Recently it's been working out at the gym (endorphin rush), but video games have always been a hard one for me to manage. I remember one Sunday when I was a kid I played for 6 hours straight, and only put the game down because I was forced to. Lol actually very recently I joined this site because of the fact it has Paper Mario for N64, and it's become my new obsession. I'm trying to use control properly and manage my time because I'm also in school (plus work), but that's easier said than done.

With the coffee thing, my suggestion is just to maybe keep a journal of how much you consume if you'd like to see the numbers for what they are. I'm not going to give you advice because I used to binge on energy drinks, and I can still do it if I don't sleep properly (and also espresso).

plasticinsanity : I've put down the games quite a bit mainly from traveling to my sister's on the weekends. Coffee though just not there yet doesn't help that my brother moved in and he is obsessed with coffee lol. I have manage to shrink it to 1 cup a week and no coffee on weekends though  

You should really try Paper Mario for Wii - Really good game unlike any other Mario game you've played.
I can't drink energy drinks, I suffer from anxiety and my first time and only time taking an energy drink I got a little episode and it really freaked me out. 

jlove92 : One cup per week, or one cup during the weekdays? Still, either way that' s incredible. 

I love paper mario for wii! I've played it on gamecube and wii so far, and i'd like to play it for 3DS one day hopefully soon.

plasticinsanity : Sorry I can see how that was confusing lol. One cup of coffee each weekday and no coffee Saturday and Sunday. Going from drinking 3+ cups a day! Big improvement and I see the bad effects of too much caffeine because I had a lot of migraines at the beginning after reducing the amount of caffeine.

Nice!! Paper Mario is so different I love it. Can't get bored with it at all.