as the title states, convince me to become a minimalist.
I am suffering through a mental health problem currently and I am thinking about severely decluttering and getting rid of majority of my stuff.
How is mental health and decluttering linked and how would it benefit me?
I am addicted to video games (TW: porn)
Hi everyone, as the title says, i am addicted to video games.
It started ever since i was a child. I was instantly given a device as my parents were also into technology. I had access to a ipad probably around the age of 6 and from there it has been downhill. (im 19 currently)
Now let me say, my parents love me and my two brothers very much and I am blessed to have been raised in a financially stable environment. With that being said, it wasn’t a perfect family as no family is perfect of course.
After this video game addiction started, I was constantly on devices between school and extracurricular activities. I would often go to the lengths of sneaking a device into my room after it was put up and I would always get caught. I also basically had unlimited access to the internet at a very young age and that had messed me up ever since. I saw porn from under the age of 10 and that’s also been an issue from that very moment. I had gotten discord at 13 even without my parents permission and that was a separate issue. Just think if there was something online, i was somehow incorporating that into my life.
Besides the video game addiction, i have been active in school and my social life. I was homeschooled and so the interactions between others was only when i played with my neighbor or when i went to events with other homeschoolers i knew.
Now back in covid, I was 13 and I just started Highschool. This also has ruined part of my education journey. I learned about ai and also I learned how to cheat on my online tests. So i learned NOTHING basically. This + addicted to video games is not a good mix I can tell you. I also was being grounded so many times and I was acting up when I couldn’t get access to a device.
Fast forward a couple years later it’s my junior-senior year of high school. I have gotten slightly better at my addiction and my behavior but it’s still pretty bad. I wasn’t in therapy and I was not thinking about my life the way i should. I graduate, and I start therapy shortly after i graduate. That was back in 2024 and now I am still in therapy with a much improved life even though i’m still facing these challenges. Just last week I had completely removed my pc from my room (i’m still at home as i’m in community college) and now I am working slowly on getting my life together.
Is there anyone who also struggles with these same issues? I feel like I am alone sometimes in my video game addiction and I feel like i have lost so much of my life due to it. (also i apologize for this post as i’m not good at writing)
Thank you for reading this shitshow of a post and I hope you have a good day/night!
Hi everyone, as the title says, i am addicted to video games.
It started ever since i was a child. I was instantly given a device as my parents were also into technology. I had access to a ipad probably around the age of 6 and from there it has been downhill. (im 19 currently)
Now let me say, my parents love me and my two brothers very much and I am blessed to have been raised in a financially stable environment. With that being said, it wasn’t a perfect family as no family is perfect of course.
After this video game addiction started, I was constantly on devices between school and extracurricular activities. I would often go to the lengths of sneaking a device into my room after it was put up and I would always get caught. I also basically had unlimited access to the internet at a very young age and that had messed me up ever since. I saw porn from under the age of 10 and that’s also been an issue from that very moment. I had gotten discord at 13 even without my parents permission and that was a separate issue. Just think if there was something online, i was somehow incorporating that into my life.
Besides the video game addiction, i have been active in school and my social life. I was homeschooled and so the interactions between others was only when i played with my neighbor or when i went to events with other homeschoolers i knew.
Now back in covid, I was 13 and I just started Highschool. This also has ruined part of my education journey. I learned about ai and also I learned how to cheat on my online tests. So i learned NOTHING basically. This + addicted to video games is not a good mix I can tell you. I also was being grounded so many times and I was acting up when I couldn’t get access to a device.
Fast forward a couple years later it’s my junior-senior year of high school. I have gotten slightly better at my addiction and my behavior but it’s still pretty bad. I wasn’t in therapy and I was not thinking about my life the way i should. I graduate, and I start therapy shortly after i graduate. That was back in 2024 and now I am still in therapy with a much improved life even though i’m still facing these challenges. Just last week I had completely removed my pc from my room (i’m still at home as i’m in community college) and now I am working slowly on getting my life together.
Is there anyone who also struggles with these same issues? I feel like I am alone sometimes in my video game addiction and I feel like i have lost so much of my life due to it. (also i apologize for this post as i’m not good at writing)
Thank you for reading this shitshow of a post and I hope you have a good day/night!