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u/shenkenstein · 2 pointsr/StopGaming

I've been reading (read: listening to on Audible) this book on addiction, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. One of the main points it makes is that addiction is more of a problem in our way of learning and is a sort of developmental disorder. It goes into much more detail and is a fantastic read if you want to check it out, but that might explain why in your situation gaming addiction is the hardest of which to rid yourself.

For myself, once I made the decision that I needed to quit gaming, I haven't touched a game since. However, I find it easier to use precommitment strategies for combating gaming urges, such as uninstalling every game and game client on all devices and going through my YouTube and clicking "Not Interested" on every gaming related video that is suggested (I also don't own any board games in my house, and my Wii hasn't been set up since I moved, so the console isn't an issue either).

u/kastic · 1 pointr/videos

Maybe I can help people understand why it's an unpopular opinion.

Life is sometimes hard for people. I don't mean oh-no-I-got-another-parking-ticket hard. I mean f'd-up-childhood-trauma-that-persists-to-this-day hard. I mean accidents-happen-then-systems-continuously-screw-them-over-till-they-lose-their-faith-in-humanity-and-slowly-die hard and watching-family-members-die-slowly-one-by-one-because-of-tribal-warfare hard. The opinion that they are just "weak humans" ignores the context of their entire lives that led to that point, and it ignores that it takes even more strength to recover, and that sometimes the only recovery methods available to a person are ineffective and/or harmful.

This is far from a complete representation on why it's an unpopular opinion, but it's a part. A great book on the topic that gives a well-researched perspective is Unbroken Brain (not a referral link).

(Also, my understanding of "survival of the fittest" is that it isn't about strength it's about adaptability - the species that can adapt to and thrive in new or changing conditions will survive. Strength may be a quality needed in some conditions but not in others.)