GvI needs help.

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This may sound stupid but isn't.

Don't make a big fuss about it at all! Apparently you're under the influence of your family and friends about the seriousness of your addiction. Well, I don't blame them and do believe they are right in their own sense. But trust me, telling yourself and others over and over that you are a computer addict without sociability won't help!

I'm not alien to such kind of, err, over-activity at the computer. I know about its many other kinds too: Television, sports, etc. It's not addiction in the meaning that you are addicted to drugs, weeds or alcohol. (Well, sport addiction sometimes joins that group, body hormones being involved, but that's not the point.)

You need one thing: Self confidence. Stop calling yourself names ("addict", "anti-social" or else) and look straight ahead. Making yourself overly busy at the computer results from your present lack of something to keep you involved. It's not what can be found by generic advice; it might be a girlfriend, a job, an interest or something totally different. Time will show.

Do try to get with people, with those you enjoy to be. Don't force yourself into doing or not doing anything, it won't help. Don't make yourself feel sundered from your games, but get parted from them at your own free will at times, which should not be restricted even by yourself.

Self confidence! Don't judge yourself. Don't analyse yourself by others' eyes. Just go ahead, pick some friends, pursue something you feel like doing and it will eventually go away before you even notice the difference. It may eventually come back at some point in time but don't worry; it would leave again.

I'm aware that these are the same generic advice you've been receiving but notice the nuance: Self confidence and free will! Do not impose yourself anything, just do it because you like it. Do not make yourself feel like a "patient" but believe in yourself! It will all get better, sooner or later.

Hope that helps. An obsessive-compulsive with two years of psychiatric treatment adventure spake, from self-experience. Onward to installing that RTW now!
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