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Internet addiction rant Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 00:24:19 No.4419

Skip all the way to the last paragraph + green text if you don't want to read wall of text also sorry for my bad english

Ok I finally accepted I've got internet addiction when it's the third day in a row i've been the whole time on the internet.

Some facts about me: 20 year old, learning economic engineer, doing my second first year at uni, still living with parents because cheaper and uni is 15 min away with bike.

My parents went for their annual week trip and left me and my brother home alone and I've done nothing except watching fucking hour long DBZ battles on youtube, watched like half of south park and big bang episodes checked every thread on this board, /pol/ (also 4chan), /his/ on 4chan and sometimes /b/ and on 4chan. Hell even jsut know as i'm writing this I opened a fucking tab on a fucking minigolf game ive been playing and i'm wasting at least some hours a day on stupid simulation game on kongregate.com

The thing is I always knew I had an addiction on computers and tried to limit myself, i even used leechblock to block some websites but I can't control my fucking urges to fuckign restart all of mozilla.

I take my laptop everywhere I go even to the fucking bathroom and every time I open it I tell myself im gonna study summirize the audio of my past lecture, i'm gonna write that essay down which is due in a week.

Anyway my parents went away and before that I somewhat learned 1 hour a day because i felt bad cuz i was wasting their money. Now that they are gone for the week I simply do not care. So much I didn't even fucking shower for over a day and a half and didn't went to uni since my parents left .

I'm going to do a white night where i'm gonna finish the shit I had for the past days and let my brother change the code of wifi

Does anybody on this board fought/fights against internet addiction and please share some tricks on how to battle this fucking addiction?

>I have tried leechblock, worked out for a day until I disabled it.

>Tried only going on the internet with the intention of doing what I need to do, did not work

>gave during exams my laptop to my dad so i wouldn't be on it to much, i failed after some days and haven't given my laptop back

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 00:27:46 No.4420

Also if you want to check out if you have an internet addiction try to go without it for a week

>no whatsapp

>no 8chan

>even not /improve/ or any fancy blogs

>maybe check email if it work related

>uni email allowed only for work

>no internet blackboard for anyone studying

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 05:17:53 No.4422

I have been try to stop using internet and i think im going well.I only used internet for an hour for 9 days.

My advice is,understand why you use internet.I used it to escape my reality,escape the pain.After i understood that,i stopped.

I dont think closing the wifi,k-9 or any other shit will work.You need to change your thinking.Think of all the useless thing you did on the internet.Ask yourself: Do i really want to do this?

I still visit /improve/ from time to time but thats it.Its the only site that i visit all day.

Stay strong brother

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 06:46:36 No.4423

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I don't want to opt-out of the Internet completely, but it's ruining me. I might try text-only Internet for a while using Lynx.

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 10:06:16 No.4424

>economic engineer

What the fuck is that?

[jew] !iYb0J6REqg 11/13/15 (Fri) 19:37:52 No.4427

>>4422

I already made the change in thinking by accepting I have an addiction. Still I wind up going 4 hours on the internet without thinking stop, you should

research that topic and stop wasting time

>>4423

Won't change a dammn thing because you mostly go on the intermet when bored. It will be like reading a book

>>4424

Some study combining engineering and management together. It's only available in the benelux and france i believe.

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 19:39:31 No.4428

>>4427

Sorry for tripfaggotry, played a game of risk earlier,sigh.

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 20:42:06 No.4429

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I spend a lot of time on the web and I have no idea wether I'm an addict or not. I was on long trips where I had no access to the internet whatsoever and it didn't even bother me.

I usually tell myself that I need to finish a task before going back online.

Try to change the room. Pick a spot that's quiet and avoid distractions.

Focus on the task at hand. It might be hard at first but you can do it. No matter how long that one task takes, finish it.

Start setting some goals. Slowly replace some of that "wasted" time with productive activities.

One thing that has really helped me in that regard is HabitRPG or whatever it's called now.

We have a party over at >>>/improve/75

Personally I don't think you have to be productive 100% of the time. Don't be overly ambitious. Nothing wrong with starting slowly. Just set some goals and keep at it and you will notice some change for the better.

Just my personal thoughts on the matter.

Anonymous 11/13/15 (Fri) 20:48:21 No.4430

You need more discipline, improve in other areas, e.g. getting up at set times each morning before you attempt to stop using the internet