Hi there, Has anyone successfully rebooted (or in the process of rebooting) and played video games during? Was just wondering if playing video games hindered anyone’s progress or led to relapses? If you did play video games did you play them regularly? Thanks for the help rebooters!
At the beginning it did for me, but as time went on I could play for longer and longer without feeling like a zombie afterward. What I would say is find a way to moderate. I would say 40-45 minutes is reasonable but for now I wouldn’t go past an hour.
Currently rebooting and playing video games. Trick is to do it in moderation and most importantly when you've got nothing else to do. Playing video games is absolutely fine as a hobby if you study, work out and act like a normal person. But if you found yourself shirking your duties just to play games then you should aim to cut down on your gaming time. It hasn't hindered my progress but that's mostly because I don't play games with NSFW stuff in them.
Games aren't a problem inherently but if you're the type that gets deeply frustrated playing them then it's bad or if they're taking away from other things (i.e. playing games but not having time to eat well, exercise, meditate etc). Also different genres have different effects. Relaxing games helped me during recovery but pvp shooters would put my nervous system in a flight state (though in my case trauma is at play there but still). Overly long sessions would also numb me out sometimes. Just gotta be mindful about how you're being effected while playing and adjust accordingly. But in general they're fine.
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I play games during my reboot. Even though I avoid some games that has sexual content like, GTA, Cyberpunk 2077 and Saint Rows. One of the reasons why I also want to have this addiction gone is because I want to enjoy GTA 6 without getting thoughts of going back to old bad habits. It's not the sexual content itself in the games that makes me feel the urge to masturbate, it's that my brain is giving me a hard time with flashbacks of porn I've watched before NoFap when that content appears. I want to be able to see sexual content as a part of the game rather than a factor that will make me relapse.