How Video Games Destroyed My Mental Health



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  1. i can only second this and can only recommend this to everyone who pretty much wastes their life on videogames, yes it is hard at first so maybe try and meet up with friends or do something with your family to keep you distracted from your pc and gaming

    i hope youre doing better now pajama

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  2. ye ive been playing pf alot less and started playing other stuff, or just doing things other than games and ive been feeling alot better since then

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  3. After hearing the first 3 minutes its like holy shot man take a 1 year break from pf. Hope you get better

    i have a similar problem but not to extreme as you, after all this covid stuff is done ill be out a lot more

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  4. my man you gotta stop playing that game if it makes you feel bad. try something new, or better yet, stop playing video games in general, idk.
    I feel you on the trying to be the best. it's hard to do that, and you feel like you'll never get anythign out of it. because you won't. with videogames I too lose track of time, etc. I got into fishing, and it really helped. I guess the point is, its good to take a break/stop, and enjoy life as opposed to countless hours wired into a machine that uses lightning to trick a rock into thinking

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  5. I can relate just a small bit. I did play video games a lot for a period, not as much as you did, but 2-3 hours a day. It really does effect your mental health. Interactions with other people become harder, sleep schedules get off, and you become a whole new person, and that person is a not a good one. I stopped early, after only a few months or so, but I know it would have been terrible if I hadn't.
    For all you who do stuff like that, it really isn't worth it.
    Also, I'm glad you are getting better PJ!

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  6. to be compleetley honest with you. This sort of thing hapend to me a while ago i started to play back in 2018 on my pc and then i was completley hooked on the game and i eventualy became decent very fast and then i started to not really keep up with hygene just like you did but now ive kind of started playing other games like forza and beam ng drive

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  7. Yeah I have a friend with high functioning autism, she is fun to be with but she does have violent changes in attitude. I just want to say even though I don't have any form of autism I (think) I completely understand where you are dude. Im 15, and I have ADHD, this obviously is different than your or my friend's condition but I do understand the difficulty of fitting in and I too just took a break from video games and I can agree that I feel a whole lot better, my grades improved to the point that I have triple digit grades in 4 of my classes… I wish you the best of luck dude!

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  8. corn man here. didn't know this channel existed but YouTube recommended it despite me not watching PF content at all. I was gonna say funny joke or something but after listening to the video I hope all goes well with you big man and once again another pf youtuber got women before me ;(((((

    I will share my piece however because I still feel like I'm an outsider in this community.

    With quarantine I feel like I lost a year of my life. I haven't been to school in over a year now and have been pursuing youtube and twitch full time. It originally started as something like a hobby over quarantine and I would casually stream a few hours a day on pf cause why not lol. Eventually I made a youtube channel and that blew up in the first 2 months. I picked up PF back in April 2020 and at the time of my blow up i actually had no clue who anyone us besides some guy lol. I made a lot of great youtuber / viewer friends within the community. I will say however despite me achieving my dreams I do sometimes get in my feels and wonder if I am accepted in terms of my content or my friends. Due to child traumatic experiences when I was younger (which im not going into because its way to private for a youtube comment) I do have a very depressive side of me that has very destructive behavior when I get into it. Over the past 2 years I would say I burned many bridges that I will never get back. Part of it being due to youtube and twitch and part of it being due to my depression from time to time.

    I'm not going to say however that my obsession with content creation was a mistake however. It pulled me out of a very long and bad depression where i contemplated suicide almost every day in my sophomore year and I am probably the happiest ive been in awhile honestly. But I do feel that I am isolated. No one understands necessarily who I am as a person. No one understands what I do really and it sometimes does get to me. I feel like I do live some kind of facade that isn't necessarily real. Well I wouldn't say its not real but I haven't been really personal with anyone at all. I think if you ask anyone whos been personal for me im almost like a stone wall I guess. I find it extremely hard to sympathize or emphasize with anyone at all. I almost feel like I'm 1. incapable of caring for someone 2. not worthy of being cared for someone. But despite the 45k subs on Youtube I still am a loner with no passion for anything outside of youtube. Im too scared to get into a relationship or just being myself around people crippling social anxiety mixed with depression isn't a good combo whatsoever. I used to force my emotions on people and lost many friends because of that. But now I'm just kind of there. I'm usually the last person invited in my friend group and when I do get invited out places I get in my own head and think about how I my entire life have been the last pick.

    Overall as of writing this in 2021 I am happy I can give others the smiles through hardships that I can emphasize with even if its just a meme here and there. I wouldn't trade my platform for anything in the world. But I am very scared for my future endeavors in life. With me basically skipping a year of my life and just now realizing I'm going to be a senior next year. I have yet completed anything that I've wanted to socially and haven't fully built the bridges that I burnt. I fear of being alone and missing out on experiences in life and just being an outcast. I just hope I can get my life together before I graduate.

    and thats an hour of my life ill never get back. Im sorry if i rambled on about wa wa wa corny sadge. Im writing this in hopes that maybe a few people will see it.

    Love you big man hope things still go the way they are going <3

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  9. I had the same problem a few years ago. I was playing fortnite a lot back at the time (god forgive me) and i wish to come back in time and slap myself. Now I'm in college and I'm learning piano and Japanese, but i don't have the time I had years ago, and id preferred learning those things earlier instead of playing all day 🙁

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