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they stopped making good games years ago, now it's all crap to gain the most $$$.
Thanks for sharing your feelings, I thought I was alone on feeling this. In my case nowadays I try to play open world games, but they are too big and engrossing experiences so I get overwhelmed and I don't wanna do a lot of stuff like in real life. So it's better for me to just turn on music and relax.
This happens to me! I have to force myself to play a game when this happens to me. Sometimes it works and my mind clears and I can actually focus on the game, but sometimes I just can’t do it. Smoking a Bowl of some Beautiful Mary before you think about Gaming does help.
I notice more and more just forcing myself on to the games, not being able to even concentrate on what is going on in the game, just zoning out on other thoughts, stopping playing after 0.5-1 hour (couple of times i just started up a game and didn't even go past the main menu, turning it off). I didn't realize how much happier i was when i was younger. It sucks.
Yes, this been happening to me for like 20 years. I am hopping ESBC boxing club, & the AEW wrestling game changes this.
So strange just posted about this on fb saying…i have so many games i wanna play but just dont wanna
Playing videogames is not relaxing to me.
That's when you know, you need a good sit down with yourself
I will once again say im enjoying your content a lot better these days. It wasn't hitting right for a few months but its been picking back up. Anyone agree with me?
National Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-800-448-4663 / National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Depression sucks and you don't realize you have it. It's not an easy battle to win but it can be done.
The answer to this question is yes recently my girlfriend has been depressed and threatening to kill her self and has been ghosting me so yeah I don’t feel like playing video games and feel suicidal I don’t have anybody in this world that loves or cares about me so yeah and the Internet can be a very depressing thing as well
I once went through this for 8 months straight. No joke. 8 months. It wasn't just gaming. A lot of nights I'd just sit there thinking to myself "I'll do something in a minute" and I'd sit there doing literally nothing for hours on end
Hmm, wonder if it's depression.. I used to play alot in my high school days. Since I've started working 5 days a week (past 7 years). Even with some free time, I have no desire to pick up the controller. I always thought it was lack of interest in games (considering games seem to be a shell and a joke compared to how they were in the past, to me). Perhaps it is depression though 🤷
Hey rich thank you for making this video. Also I am diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Your videos made me pull thru it and for that thank you! And as always hab e a good bird
This pandemic has really put a toll on me even though things should be getting better it’s just so many crazy things going on my anxiety is going through the roof. But I thank all of you for the passion through gaming and I love watching these videos! All of the best to everyone out there and don’t worry you will be alright ❤️
its opposite for me my depression has me gaming all the time all day my situation is what it is love your vids man
maybe like go outside take a walk or something
Me too 🙂
I feel like a 1st-world whiner mentioning that I have recently been too bummed to enjoy gaming. It's been a rough few years though. I blew my knee out trying pro soccer overseas, lost a ton of weight and came back to my former girlfriend cheating on me with a bodybuilder, had a family member steal $20,000 from under my nose as I was working 70+ hours a week with no time off for months at a time, went back to school for a biology degree and had to work 60+ hour weeks and didn't get high marks, had a boss beg me to be paid under the table and then screw me with not paying me for work done or overtime and took her to court to have the judge say that since I agreed to it it was my fault and lost out on $50,000, took a decent paying job that had forced overtime and developed a sleep disorder, left that good paying job for what I thought was a dream job as a biologist on fishing boats, but my beloved dog got cancer right after that and I spent my then life savings to save her ($12,000) to only have her pass pretty horrifically. The dream job was not a dream job and I would be up 30+ hours driving all over the East Coast to jobs I wasn't suppose to be going to and then the pandemic hit and I lost said job and couldn't get unemployment and now I'm in even deeper debt. My girlfriend borderline hates me as she is paying the bills currently, most of the jobs I want are in other States, no friends, no family really, and the things I used to enjoy like lifting, reading, art, and gaming just don't do it. When I see this I know I'm in same boat as others, just had the guy who helped me recover from my knee injury as a beach lifeguard kill himself, times are either fantastic for some or rough for others, seems like there is an ocean's distance between people's current experiences.
Not depression. It's more like guilt
Yeah I have clinical depression for years and video games was my only escape. Now I have lots of video games that I haven't played or barely played. I just can't seem to do it anymore
Great video
I'm going to be clinicly depressed till I find a ps5
This has been happening to me as soon as I stopped playing with friends and the pandemic started
This happens to me I try to pick up a game and I end up watching a walk through of the game on YouTube instead lol.
Just recently finished RDR2 and the ending made me depressed, I haven't been able to sleep. Haven't felt like touching my gaming pc at all.
Depression saps the will to enjoy things
I genuinely thought I was growing out of love with video games when I started feeling the same way. As a kid, I always wanted to do nothing more than to play as many games as I could for as long as I could. In the last 3 years, I've had many days where I had the desire to game, but would never try touching a controller or I turn on my console ready to play only to just sit on the starting menu starting at my games with no clue on what to play. Half the time once the console was on and I was looking at my library to pick a game, my interest immediately left. Haven't talked to anyone aside from some friends, but it's been something that was always bugging me.
Im playing Mass Effect it makes me depressed al over again.
What I do when I feel like this is just pick something I know I always enjoy and start it up. Even if I'm not in the particular mood FOR it, I'm never AGAINST it. I end up having fun instead of staring at my home screen for 2 hours.
Felt that hard-core. The last little while I've been on a bit where I literally get home from work and, I just can't even play a game.
Yes. Occasionally
kids a dad with alzheimer to take care off and a cab business, now that everyone is asleep i can play an hour or 2 but my brain just wants to go to sleep, wouldnt even enjoy it, still havent played gta 5 and cant believe its been out so long, guess time flies, enjoy gaming while u can people, best of luck to all.
All the fucking time.
I actually relate to that
These youtubers are spoiled 🙄