Do you think about what you’re going to do online when you’re offline?

Is your work at well…work or school suffering because of all the time you spend online?

If you answered yes to those questions then you just might have an internet/gaming addiction.

Have no fear my little gaming fiends,  reSTART is here to help and for the low-low price of $16,000.

The program, based out of Washington, promises to give gaming and internet addicts a “family-style retreat where its participants can have an internet and video-game-free therapeutic experience”.

Cozy.

I joke, but there is apparently a need for this type of program.

Just take the case of a 26 year old guy from China who died back in 2007 after played video games for seven days straight and then died. There’s also the case of the Korean StarCraft gamer who died back in 2005 after playing the wildly popular game for 50 hours straight.

Obviously, those two cases are the exception and not the rule when it comes to gaming and gaming addictions but they are both cautionary tales in what can happen if the addiction takes over your life.

If you have a problem, get help.

Maybe you don’t need to fly out to Washington to get that help since there are tons of counselors and shrinks in just about every town in the US, but do get help.

Believe it or not, no game is worth dying over.

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Post from: EveryJoe

Help for Addicted Gamers

Man, oh man.

My weekend is officially screwed.

I have avoided all of the Guitar Hero games like the plague.

I have serious games to play; I don’t have time for frivolous games like Guitar Hero. [cough]

Unfortunately, all of my efforts were for naught. The husband has officially undermined my authority and has brought the damn game home.

Bastard.

The cute little guitar is sitting in the corner right now…mocking me.

Apparently Husband [bastard!] has a “Guitar Hero” party in the works.

What fun!

Five or six twenty-something drunk guys in my living room acting like forty-something drunk rock gods.

Are you feeling sorry for me yet? Even a little bit?

Actually, I’m completely full of shit. [Have you noticed that yet?]

I didn’t want anything to do with the game because I have a sneaking suspicion that I am going to become an addict.

I’ve had visions of the future and they scare the crap out of me.

A month from now, I see myself with bags under my eyes from lack of sleep and my hands permanently fused into the “guitar position”.

I’m so screwed.

Post from: EveryJoe

Somebody Stop Me