I am addicted to the internet

cancel your internet, sit down and feel the pain.
then get up, go over to your neighbors, introduce yourself and get back to life.
slap now clean yourself up !

Quit school. Move back in with mom. Shill on GLP. You only live once!

Make for yourself a program, internet only after school and job, mainly in the evening, but not after 11, 30. Try it!
P.S. Remember, the real life is counting, not the virtual one, in the end.

What are your "Withdrawal-Symptoms"
when the Internet/ Games are not available?

Do you run away from Meetings just to get into
a Chatroom or Forum?

There is, of course, a Addiction
and we see already a lot of harmed People!

I spend to much Time in the Net too
and i can't remember what i've done
in all the Years before!

LOL I remember back in the late 90's/early 2000's the local tv station did a report about people addicted to the internet and interviewed local doctors about it and they said that the internet is just a fad and it will wear off in a few months time. LOL

don't listen to Trinity.
it is stupid to separate virtual from "real life".
Life includes everything. Life is happening.

On the other hand, we have many addiction each and every one of us, be it internet or coffee or eating or washing your teeth or drinking or doing drugs or feeling anxious or meditating.... there are a wide variety of it. Just choose what you want, and if you feel that for example internet is destructive to you, change this habit with something else, like reading a book of law mechanics etc...

(remember changing habit takes about three weeks, so initial effort is always needed)


On the third hand you can just practice awareness, whatever happens just be extremely and acutely aware of what you are doing, what is being done to you and why it is being done, don't change, don't resist, don't react, just watch, and you will see some wonders happening, bad habits falling away without any effort on your part....
though this is not easy, but very effective.

I too had the same problem... I was addicted to both the Internet and gaming... What changed in my life was that I met a woman over the net, fell in love and decided that if I want to keep this relationship, I had better change the way I live.

So I manned up and sold my computer. I've been with her over 3 years now still don't own a computer, we both own an iPad.

The only way you can fix this in my opinion is to get rid of your computer. It needed to be done for me otherwise this relationship would have never worked.

To this day I am a much happier person. I take part in much more activitys, you would be suprised just how much fun life is without a computer!

Good luck buddy

When I had this addiction in college, I chopped up my dsl chord. Seemed to help...for awhile.

Now I tell myself it's better to be addicted to the internet and reading information on a lot of interesting things than being an alcoholic. But I'm also trying to work on this cure. I also make my money from the internet.

And you ask this question on the internet? Seriously?

it's not easy when you have addiction, you will have to fill that void with something that was internet before and that is most difficult because you always think of Internet, so your focus is on Internet all the time making you wanna go there. There's a reason why addiction is an epic bitch.

90% here are addicted to the internet and porn not just to GLP and those who deny that, don't know shit about what is going in their life and therefor sinking in.

So for starters it's good to know and be aware of your addiction than being denial.

You have low dopamine.

Try some dopa mucuna and see if it helps you want to do something else.

Thanks for the thoughts, folks. My problem is that I'm a lawyer. I work on the computer every day. It is SO hard to focus on my work long enough to get anything done. I am constantly thinking about the internet while I'm drafting motions and memoranda about cases I am working on. Thankfully, I am not addicted to porn. That would make my addiction much, much worse in my opinion. One thing I do know, I need more exercise.

I'm not addicted to the internet! I just spend all my waking time on it!