>By the time Al and Christine’s son Josh was 17 years old, he was so consumed with playing video games that he stopped going to school. >"He just said, 'Hey, I’m dropping out,'" his father Al told ABC News "20/20." > Josh would stay up late to play well into the night and sleep in late the next day. His mother said he would often play for as many as 12 hours straight, for as much as 60 hours in a week. >"It’s like, 'You’ve got to stop ... you've got to close it down,'" Al said. But he said his son replied, "I can't." >Their son’s obsession with online gaming began in 8th grade, Al and Christine said. The turning point was when Josh built himself a gaming computer and installed it in his room, Christine added. >"When we did take it away, there was a lot of problems in our house with his behavior," she said. "We get these reactions that are probably not like the average kid ... we see some withdrawal symptoms that are probably not very healthy." >Josh eventually became addicted to pornography as well and delved deep into extreme fetishes. His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute. >Josh’s parents decided to send him to a wilderness program called Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, located in the mountains of the Utah wilderness, where he wouldn’t have any access to electronic devices for more than two months.
Is the cure time in the wilderness?
Andrew Moore
My parents tried the same with me, hated it , I was more convinced that games were sent from heaven.
Sebastian Allen
yea i can feel videogame withdrawal right now. I have been on Sup Forums nursing it for the past hour. I need to sit down and study. But i want to play civ 5 and squad.
Parker Wright
It's time for shit in the woods therapy my boy.
Nolan Perry
>gets bit by rattlesnake >no smartphone to call for help
Caleb Myers
>His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute. I thought the whole trap thing was ironic
Eli Cook
Am I the one my one who finds videogames bring as fuck? I would rather go outside with friends and play tennis or volleyball.
Connor Ross
Lucky kid if he gets to go hiking around Utah with a professional for two months
Evan Morris
Boring**
Robert Nelson
>Josh eventually became addicted to pornography as well and delved deep into extreme fetishes. His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute.
WTF At least the parents sent him to rehab.
>Josh’s parents decided to send him to a wilderness program called Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, located in the mountains of the Utah wilderness, where he wouldn’t have any access to electronic devices for more than two months.
IMHO it sounds awesome. This is a journey I'd pay for. I hope this kid can appreciate the opportunity. Hiking is so much fun.
Thomas Brown
i used to be as addicted as this kid but i don't enjoy games anymore, not even old games. Sup Forums is more entertaining
Evan Perez
I used to be a big gamer until a few years ago, I just lost all interest in it. Nowadays whenever I go to a LAN Party I get bored within an hour or two and want to go outside and fuck around at night, or when I visit a friend when he comes over for summer from uni in the US I'd rather go outside and play with his dog together in the woods behind his house than play vidya for too long.
Zachary Roberts
>squad >not project reality shit tier taste
Thomas Johnson
Squad is the shit boi
Dylan Brooks
Well, I guess in a sense it is. A personal fantasy of mine is to just drop society and everything and go out in the wilderness and live an entirely self sufficient life. No expectations from others, no unfilled desires, just you and nature. The only time you can really be *yourself* is when you are alone with nature.
Carter Murphy
I remember when I used to be into video games and play ~30 hours a week in high school/early college. Couldn't do it anymore after my freshman year of college. Can't find any games that interest me enough to play that much and now I like to do other things. Got into working on cars, fishing, and being outside. Video games are fun to play with my friends but I can't sit there for hours on end every day like I used to. I would say more productive hobbies are the solution. Unless you're playing strategy games, video games don't really stimulate your mind and aren't productive. There are better ways to spend your time.
Josiah Russell
How'd they even let him get to that stage? What kind of patent can't even police their own child's interests?
Levi Wilson
Sounds like your average Sup Forums user.
Kevin Robinson
>paying for unfinished product when you can play the finished one for free
Kayden Hughes
I don't really play them anymore except for the occasional paradox grand strategy. But I'm mostly sick of those individual games now
Several years back when I did play games online it was much more of a social thing anyway
Jace Hill
>>By the time Al and Christine’s son Josh was 17 years old, he was so consumed with playing video games that he stopped going to school. >>"He just said, 'Hey, I’m dropping out,'" his father Al told ABC News "20/20." >> Josh would stay up late to play well into the night and sleep in late the next day. His mother said he would
i did that in summer when i was in pre-med
Still got straight A+'s and stopped gaming once school would start
Oh and i'm west african living in canada, i do enjoy mocking you losers every now and then
Julian Garcia
>transexual prostitute :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Alexander Roberts
>Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, located in the mountains of the Utah wilderness, where he wouldn’t have any access to electronic devices for more than two months.
Sounds like fun.
Brandon Wilson
>send boys to femanized school with 0 competition and if you dact like boy stuff get punished >boys get the kick in vidya instead >whyyyy aaare theyyy playing soooo much? reeee fucking society.
Adrian Bell
I played PR since 0.86 version, I kind of got bored of it. I haven`t been playing nothing lately, but when i do i can`t even play 2 hours straight. What`s going on? Im getting old and boring?
Xavier Lee
I used to be as addicted as this kid. I still am kind of addicted but I get no joy or entertainment from games anymore. It's just something I do because TV is even more boring.
Ryan Cooper
I think without any distractions and through the constant work you have to do to be self sustained, it's truly the best way to find and experience your own version of God and really start to understand yourself.
Jacob Murphy
>I can't Because he was playing dota and if you leave you'll get lp for being a shitty peruviab. Dad should've asked "when is your match over?" and they could've had some quality time.
Robert Thompson
I want to play games but when I do I am immediately bored by them
Lucas Harris
I wouldn't say I had a gaming addiction, I loved playing vidya and then I just stopped around 2007-2008. Somewhere around the time I found Sup Forums. Probably just a coincidence.
Landon Peterson
>transsexual prostitute Shoulda had him sent to a camp
Kayden Brown
We're losers but you fled your shithole country to live in a country built by our people. Meanwhile your people are literally child raping cannibals.
Wow you sure got me
Juan White
Same as you, but got into cars + guns
James Rodriguez
porn addiction is such an under diagnosed condition. Probably like 90% of guys struggle with this and its literally absent from the mainstream consciousness.
Tyler Fisher
>so addicted to gaming he dropped out of school >answer to problem is reddit tier program worth several thousand dollars
Did the parents even take the time to beat his ass with a belt or something?
Literally takes like 20 minutes tops.
Easton Stewart
I use to be big into gaming. From 1989 until around 2012. Then I just started to lose interest. There's a couple games I'm looking forward to, but it's just going to be like "oh it's out now?" Sort of anticipation.
I only game on the weekends and its usually no more than 10 hours in 45 minute burst.
Dominic Mitchell
found the subhuman
Ethan Roberts
Lately i can only play CoH, rainbow siege and PR. Anything else i get bored or dont like so i just lurk on 4chins. But thats probably because im a depressed alcoholic who wants to end it but dosent have the balls for it
Anthony Jackson
I seriously have no idea what I would do If I didn't have video games or internet. Probably read books all day or something, at least on the computer it's like a giant book of information on everything and 95% of it is free online. I have no one to hang out with as well socially so shits fucked.
Nothing else interests me except guns, and I can't use those here without a license and reason to.
Nathan Wilson
I wonder why.
Hmm maybe we should see if there is some kind of (((link))) between mainstream media and pronography productions...
Thomas White
I want to get into working on cars.
Any ideas on how to get started? I have like no tools and I don't know shit about cars.
Nolan Hughes
I dont think its le ebin jews, but I could see the government not caring because it quells the male population.
Kevin Brooks
I have all these games you listed, but i haven't played them in months now.
> But thats probably because im a depressed alcoholic who wants to end it but dosent have the balls for it
Join the army faggot
Lucas Richardson
>His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute 100000% change this kid shitposts on Sup Forums
Carson Phillips
Dropping out and playing video games is less mentally corrosive and probably a more productive use of time than going to public high school and Marxist university.
Hudson Kelly
>White people
Why do whites raise such bettas?
>We..we couldn't handle his behavior! Pathetic
Colton Moore
>Our people
lol, idiots like you really exist. This is pathetic
>your people
do you know which country i'm from? You know africa isnt a country?
Anthony Garcia
>flag >checks out.
Levi Hall
AI can reproduce now? FUCK
Nathan Jackson
pretty much the only game I've played seriously in the last five years was new vegas. never thought I'd outgrow the game jew but it happened naturally in the end. just can't take them seriously or care about anything. videos of modern gaymes like overwatch makes me want to puke.
Lincoln Lopez
Should have taken some shrooms and lsd with you.
Andrew Roberts
Start reading reference books.
Cooper Davis
I only did conscript service, was fun i enjoyed it. But im shit at marches and hate waking up in the morning cold as fuck
Brody Kelly
reference books?
Colton Thomas
I used to enjoy gaming when I needed to be with the same 8 people playing PVP every day.
That was when i was 16 and had the time. Now I can make real money by sitting behind a computer rather than some ethereal achievement in a game that probably won't be around in 10 years anyway.
Video games are basically a legacy killer for men. You should be out improving yourself and forging a tangible history, not wasting your life in a cyber world that no one will ever see or care about.
Benjamin Adams
It also gives males an outlet for sexual frustration (and arguably frustration in general, though video games is better for that).
Wyatt Johnson
>healthy as fuck child in primary school >"the popular kid" >high school hits >despite many friends from primary school being there, fall into despair >discover battlefield 2 >next decade is literally just playing bf2 >now a badly maladjusted aspie
dont do video games
Josiah Nguyen
You know how I can tell reddit is filled in this thread? ADDICTION. You fucking retards believe you can be addicted to fucking video games. Seriously what in the FUCK?
Owen Martin
My internet went out for like like an hour unexpectedly and I had no idea what to do with myself. I'd say something like this is the solution to the domesticated human problem.
Jaxon Perry
bf2 was too good
Alexander Evans
>No joy or entertainment >It's just something I do Found the addict
Angel Hughes
>sex with a transexual prostitute this kid is me
William Morgan
Books full of facts, and information. In the US you can't check them out at the library. But it's what I use to read as a kid.
Encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, and even shit like book of world records, and weird fact books.
I got a facsimile of Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition 1768-1771 and the information in there is crazy.
Oliver Johnson
Yes, it would feel very meaningful. Ted Kaczynski was right, every aspect of our lives has gotten so incessantly complicated that it's lost it's meaning. We keep pushing in our quest to become God, questioning the meaning of meaning that it has all ceased to matter. Not that I have any real right to complain when I'm enabling the problem by being dependent on the fruits of advanced civilisation myself, but I'm not seeing it ending well.
Ryder Hall
Explain to me what porn addiction is? What exactly kind of high are they getting?
He was 17. The problem is the kid is such a fucking retard that he didn't realize that you have to get a HS diploma to ever get anywhere.
Asher Myers
Money? How?
Nolan Robinson
the high of ejaculation. Addiction meaning you cannot stop. Porn is mentally addictive.
Brayden Stewart
Get some cool cheap old reliable car that is common in your area with a lot of cheap spare parts. For me that would obviously be a volvo 740 or something but for you its probably something different.
Then you just go online and find info how to repair shit when it brakes. I bought an old Toyota and fixed the carburetor with no previous knowledge by just following a video on youtube. I've looked online and and there are guides to do everything from changing the engine to jacking it up. You can basically fix anything in an old car as long as you aren't retarded, got access to the internet and have some tools.
As for tools you can just get pic related (metric or burger depends on car obviously) and some basic pliars, that should solve most of your needs. Look at garage sales etc for cheap quality tools, if some old man dies you can get a a quality tool for 1/100 of the price from his widow.
Alexander Harris
Ah right, never owned one personally but might check them out, I enjoy finding out small details to things, cheers.
Xavier Turner
Yes, the mods were awesome. From Project Reality, the Point of Existence, Forgotten Hope, and Sandbox.
Adam Carter
It depends on the game you are playing. 99% of all video games are really shitty and boring. You aren't alone. I only really play CSGO and shoot'em ups.
Oh I see so you could say that if he were normal and had a GF that he was fucking every day or so that he'd have a sex addiction as well?
Landon Nelson
i threw my pc out the window
Adam Evans
>I only did conscript service
Here in Brazil we have conscription too, but i was sent home because there was like only 400 jobs in the army and there was more than 3000 people to be conscripted.
Find a new purpose, you said you enjoyed it so why not join again or maybe some other branch or police force?
I have been into depressed too, the only way to get out of it is to stop felling sorry for yourself and do something new. Don't live such a life man, get out there and start being useful for your country.
Owen Lee
>brazilian >stopped playing PR
Thank you for improving my game experience.
Christopher Powell
The cure is cognitive behavioral therapy and a light antidepressant like Wellbutrin, as well as bloodwork to determine if there are any vitamin deficiencies (I can almost guarantee he's low on vitamin D). Gaming/porn addiction should be treated the same way as light amphetamine addiction - both of these addictions have screwed up the balance of neurotransmitters. That's where the dopamine reuptake inhibitor (Wellbutrin/Bupropion) comes in. At the same time, unhealthy habits and thought patterns are treated by cognitive behavioral therapy. The exercise helps on a number of levels, fat loss and physical health being the most obvious, but also restoring the balance of neurotransmitters. I would use this combination of therapy for someone with light to moderate depression, addiction recovery problems, or even light ADD.
Brody Kelly
>Is the cure time in the wilderness? Only if he gets eaten by a bear or mountain lion.
Owen White
Acquire tool set you can afford. Try big box stores with return policies for breaking tools. Go to LKQ website. >lkq Google it Find U pull it location nearest you. Bring toolset. Pay $3. Go pull cars apart you like.
You will learn at that point what different tools you will need to add to your set.
When you find a car you like working on, find one you want to buy and drive.
Alternatively, LKQ or similar salvage yards have automotive dismantler jobs sometimes available where you can actually get paid to take cars apart. They don't pay more that $10 an hour typically but you're going to learn.
Leo Harris
>I would rather go outside with friends
Cooper Jenkins
BTW a couple months of this and no gaming and you won't even be able to recognize the kid.
Source: me
Thomas Smith
>Gaming/porn addiction Yeah I'd love to know how you consider any of this an addiction. Its not a fucking addiction you are all weak little faggots who can't fucking control themselves and try to fucking blame shit for there own fucking shitty inability to have impulse controls just like niggers.
Just admit you are fucking losers .
Anthony Wright
>why not join again or maybe some other branch or police force? Because unless they give me open season on politicians i wont be doing much because peace time military or walking in a desert and avoiding IED. I just want to shoot russians in BTR 80s and cook the inside. And police is too boring for me unless you get to police special forces and im also too lazy to sit trough school so i just work in a warehouse because its rather calm and i dont have to interact much and pay is decent
Cooper Turner
Games now suck. The only thing i play is Destiny on the PS4 mainly because it's a social game I can play with my friends who moved away and I don't see much these days. Yes i'm aware the game itself sucks.
Noah Jackson
The cure is for the parents to avoid this to even happen. How can you justify being a good parent when you just let your son just drop out and play video games all day? You just say enough is enough when she brings a girlboi home?
Sending them to Utah is just washing your hands of the problem and pretending to care.
Parker Allen
Take all that time wasted on video games and jewish media, and spend it learning something useful. Anything really, learn to code, learn woodworking, learn gardening, anything. Whatever it is you do will be more self improvement than blowing away your time on the cyber jew.
Brandon Sanchez
>Hate War Thunder but I'm really good at it >community is god awful and full of the biggest types of irredeemable faggots >ground forces is fucking broken as hell good luck playing as Germans >can't stop playing
Ryan Hill
>they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute. a true robot
Alexander Reyes
Absolutely on target summary. I wasted 116 days of my life on a MUD. That was over ten years, but it was still wasted. I noticed a lot of socially broken people played, they created a completely fake persona, built a house to live in, bought furniture, earned money, got married to other players - none of it was real.
Brandon Fisher
Right? I'm absolutely shit at keeping friends. After a while I just get really bored of people and drop contact with them because I don't feel like keeping them around. I don't have a problem talking to people and making friends and having a bit of a friendship before that point, though. I'm probably autistic or some shit.
Jordan Jenkins
because cyber jew isnt as shit as the real jew
Caleb Ward
>calls me a nigger >has the spelling and grammar of an 8th grade nigger
Nice argument, Tyrone.
Carson Ortiz
>goes through treatment in the wilderness Was he pked?
Aaron Turner
not an argument reddit
Isaiah Wood
He sure did i can see your butthurt from here
Nicholas Barnes
the only game i could play is probably starcraft but its time comnsuming to get good so idgaf no games for me
Easton Nguyen
video games stopped being interesting when the arcade business collapsed
Ayden Powell
Yeah white European-descended people you stupid nigger.
And pick any African shithole country. You're all subhuman animals.
Tyler Gonzalez
It becomes an emotional crutch that allows you to live in a world that is not real, a distorted version of reality. Just like drugs. The way to get off drugs is to accept reality as it is. After spinal surgery I was given an unlimited script for oxy. Tell the doc how much I wanted and I could have it, for as long as I wanted. I stopped after a month, as pain was better than no emotion at all. Same for Sup Forumsdiots. If you play to avoid reality, then choose to live in the real world is the only handling.
Benjamin Cook
Kid just needs a more productive hobby like a music instrument/sports/reading. Gaming is a shit-tier hobby, and I'm sure a lot of videogame players can agree.
Blake Green
So did he go "pro"?
If he was good, Parents should have encouraged him playing. Retire on the kids dime if he went xxxMLG420xxx
Jackson James
Just learn to play 'eur/usd short term scalping autism simulator 3.14', it will probably drive you fucking insane but if you succeed you'll be rich and get paid to play.