Chat Room Addiction Problem? Need Help ASAP.?
Question by Rachel: Chat Room Addiction Problem? Need help ASAP.?
Ever since my friends suggested iSketch.net, I’ve been hooked to it. I just can’t stay away. My self esteem was very low at the time and I would spend hours in my room at a time, never getting any homework done.
Now, I am still hooked. The longest I’ve been was six months (about two years ago), but only because I forced myself to get banned. Whenever I try to stop playing, I have this need that tells me to get on my computer and talk.
Now, I am using MSN with my “online friends”. And no, I don’t give out any real information. No, I do not trust any of them.
The next site, which is more recent, is ClubMarian.com. It usually includes people of a younger age, so I tend to become friends on there easier.
I will not tell you my age, but I will range from 15-17.
Help. Please. Going outside and joining clubs just won’t work. I need help.
In the real life, the bonds with my friends are great.
Best answer:
Answer by Hames
It’s an addiction to talking to people, not the chat rooms themselves. You have to meet new people, or at least strengthen your bonds with your current friends. You don’t need to join clubs or anything like that. If you hate people like me, although you seem to not hate people, turn your computer off and get a hobby that you can do without “going outside”.
Answer by Y!AaDdIcT
U need to get yourself some real friends and stop wasting time with random strangers who dont give a rats fart about u. I hope u are not into cyber sex…coz thats nasty…
I had the same problem when i was a yongun….i used to chat all day and most of the night to random pple….used a fake name and all. I resorted to that i guess coz i didnt have any real friends. It was that or i didnt have real friends coz i chatted so much to random strangers. It made me feel like i was somebody….like i had lots of friends, like i was popular. I used to lie and say i was older than i was (now its the other way around, lol)…but yeah…u need to stop with the sites, and get serious with ur life. U will hardly ever meet and decent serious pple in a chat room. Get down to some homework too.
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