How can you break a computer addiction?!
Question: I know it's ironic asking this on a computer, but I figure I might as well try to solve it now rather than later.
I always spend my time on the internet, and lately this website has been doing most of the damage. I can't just turn it off because I need to use the internet for study and job searching. However I always end up here.
I have acknowledged my addiction and tried taking Dr. Phil's advice but it's not getting any better. Is there anyone out there who can help?
Answers: I know it's ironic asking this on a computer, but I figure I might as well try to solve it now rather than later.
I always spend my time on the internet, and lately this website has been doing most of the damage. I can't just turn it off because I need to use the internet for study and job searching. However I always end up here.
I have acknowledged my addiction and tried taking Dr. Phil's advice but it's not getting any better. Is there anyone out there who can help?
From personal experience, I start spending more time on the computer when I am dissatisfied with parts of my life, or something is missing...just not quite right.
Like you, I have been spending more time online lately, and I know the reason why, but for the time being it is filling a need. It has happened to me before, but eventually I decide to "quit" and sometimes don't go back to it for weeks or months on a regular basis.
If you do not have enough to do and your friends are busy with jobs, you are probably just filing up time.
Why not make a schedule of things you will do during the day, and make yourself stick to it. That is what usually helps me finally break free of my computer compulsion.
I list things I will do and how much time to spend. I also list time on the computer as part of my day so that I don't feel immediate "withdrawal".
You could list an hour to take the dog for a walk, go for a jog or do other exercise, list chores you can do around the house and then do them, read a book or magazine, write a letter, wash the car, work on another hobby you have. Only after you do all the things on your list do you get to spend time on the computer.
If this fails, why not get a job? You didn't say how old you were but if your friends have jobs, it could be that you subconciously want one also.
get a gf
no
There's only one way. The trigger.
well...you can start reading the newspaper instead..and don't forget books!
well, its the same as my brother, there isn't anything to do other than computer he says, so heres the solution, go out with your friends more often and get the advanced pack of comcast cable
i wish i new i have the same thing
You did the first thing is admitting that you have a problem. Try go cold turkey, if not consult some of your friends.
By selling the computer .
stop your internet service
break the computer
You need to go cold turkey!
I did it for about a year and I felt great... there's so much more to life than the internet! Once you start doing exciting and productive things, you'll wonder how you ever wasted your life on a computer!
Go cold turkey for one week. In that week you will have found other ways to fill your time.
During the week, exercise, take walks, make plans with friends.
You can go cold turkey over Thanksgiving break. You should not have a lot of studying to do during this time. If you MUST use a computer, go to the library and use it there.
Get out of the house more often! It helps believe it or not.
get a fuller life!
do sports!
Hang with friends!
Have fun!!!
Give urself a time limit on the computer! :)
ironically, i can't truthfully or nonhypocratly answer this question cuz im doing homework right now and i drifted off into reading ur question. umm, but i could say finish ur studying and then turn it off? or get a really really really slow computer and it will take so long for stuff to load that ull quit.
Break the computer. I call my computer the "Life Sucker" because that's what it does.
If you can't do that, set LIMITS for yourself for time on the comp and STICK TO THEM.
Best of luck to you - I know it is very very difficult to break ANY bad habit!
Take up smoking.
When you find yourself off the original task that you set out to do, get up and get some fresh air.... Limit yourself to 1 hour per day to "play" on the internet and do whatever you want but the rest of the day you are one it you MUST be on there for a reason.
you need to step away from the comp: open your windows, play some relaxing music, sit in an area that is distraction proof and work away....
You can also have someone put a password or restrict your internet access.
Oooh Oooh pick me :D well first you need to decide what it is about this site that is so addicting. Then you need to make a plan on how you plan on breaking your addiction, like everytime you think about going to this site have something else to do instead :D Hope i helped
take a sledge hammer to your computer, then Dr Phil.
When you feel the urge to get on the internet go for a walk instead or watch a movie, that should take your mind off of it.
Turn it off and go outside and do something. I spend like 18 hours a day on the computer. sometimes, I have to just turn it off for a few hours.
You can actually block any website you want. Go into the options and block this site.
WE are probably not the best people to address this one!!!! When my bf is in town I can't get enough of him. When he is not here this is (not a very good) substitute! When I am able to break away, I draw/sketch or read.
Get that job! Then go camping, hiking, mountain biking, swimming or any other activity that brings you and friends together away from the computer.
I don't think it's possible, very frankly. I am also addicted. ;)
I recently did a paper on internet addiciton. Well not to be cheesy but the first step is to relalize it. Using the internet for school and looking for a job is not an addiction.
But if you are constanly surfing, emailing etc etc that can be. Ironically why don't you surf the web and find out about counciling. Internet addiction is real, just like a drug problem.
Recently there have been cases of child neglect and even sucide because of internet addictions.
What you resist persists.
Why do you need to change. Any addiction can be stopped by free will choice, but you have to want to. A chemical addiction is more difficult, but there has to be a reason to quit.
How is this desire to use the computer as a tool and enjoyment causing your life harm. Maybe you don't need to quit.
I am only enabling you here because I have somewhat of an addiction to it myself. But I don't want to stop and I use it to help other with it so I see many good uses for it. No more addicted to it than using a car as a tool. Don't want to give that up either.
Rev. TomCat
I'm 25 years old, and ive learned from most of my actions.
I managed to get internet after not ever really having internet, excpecially premium roadrunner.
I grew out of it.
I grew board of it.
It took me a very long time since April 2007.
and i still use the internet alot.
Thats mainly cause im me, and I "LOVE" technology.
its not mainly now anymore cause i love the internet, but mainly now because i need intel.
Id like to be very smart, so i use the internet to...
window shop.
research , and research, and research, and research untill i dont have anymore questions for that time being.
MySpace
Mostly Research, lol.
I love to learn about whats hot and whats not.
I love to prove people wrong, or to fix things that are wrong, or not right.
Wow! we are groupmates! My work is telephone and computer- based. I do my work in lap top. At times, my clients are from foreign countries. I've been doing my work for the last 24 years so you can imagine how bored I get at times. I can't get away just to have a break... I may linger. So I just log on Answers to do away my boredom from work.
Yes! we can do away with computer addiction --- but I don't think this is addiction because it's a must for us.
Do something else! That's it.
For me, I just can't... because this means losing income.