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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is the 2nd time over the past number of years that I’ve quit gaming. The last time was after Star Wars Galaxies<\/a> and before World of Warcraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n I had quit gaming completely for about 10 months and then was lured back by a friend who was raving about how great WoW was. I then played the game pretty much nonstop for almost a year, which worked well for me because I was totally in the dumps and appreciated the escape. The problem was that I got way too into it though, getting too deeply involved in the social aspects of the game and constantly involved in drama and guild politics. I also did far too much end game things like massive raiding and guild leadership, which sucked the life out of the game for me and made me lose all enjoyment with it.<\/p>\n It’s been almost 10 months again since I’ve quit gaming and I can definitely say it’s the best thing I’ve done. I lost 30 lbs so far, I’ve managed to crawl out of my slump and get my head together, I’ve started working and socializing again. So what is it about the 10th month that makes it so hard for me to stay ‘on the wagon’, so to speak?<\/p>\n There is a new expansion out for the game, new races, new worlds… all these exciting things to do that didn’t exist in the game when I was playing it before. My husband is playing it and shows me all the cool new things that has come along and I feel that familiar urge again. I want to play and see it all for myself. I want to make a new little character and run around anonymously and have fun, without getting too involved… but that’s where I doubt myself because I’ve never been able to do that.<\/p>\n Gaming has always been a huge hobby of mine. I’ve always enjoyed games of all kinds whether it was board games, console games or computer games. It only became a problem when combined with my depression, which isn’t so much of an issue anymore.<\/p>\n Am I ready to go back to gaming and do it in moderation? Is that even possible with this game? I really have no idea. I’m afraid to try because once it sucks you in it’s hard to get out. I don’t want anything getting in the way of the progress I’ve made over the past few months, but I don’t want to not do something I enjoy either.<\/p>\n I know the smart thing to do would probably be to avoid it like the plague, but it sure would be nice if I could find a way to fit gaming back into my life in a more healthy way than I have in the past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well I never thought I’d ever say this, but… I miss WoW. Argh.. shit! This is the 2nd time over the past number of years that I’ve quit gaming. The last time was after Star Wars Galaxies and before World of Warcraft. I had quit gaming completely for about 10 months and then was lured back …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,153],"tags":[18,165],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-geek","tag-gaming","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}