I want to quit watching any form of video

[anon1822fourthacc]

It's by far my biggest addiction. I spend most of my day just watching one form of video or another, have all my life. Since I was a kid really, it started as TV but then it became movies, anime, youtube etc... nowadays I can barely consume anything other than youtube.

I must get rid of the mind virus, the entertainment that weakened my brain, atrophied it. I can't so much as think, my brain is too lazy, it wants to watch stuff all day while drooling. It's like I was lobotomized.

It's so so so hard though. Despite spending the last 2 hours agonizing over it, I just kept clicking the next video over and over. From comedy skit to music video to news to documentaries.

This is so fucked I can't stop. I must quit entirely, I want to live my life without video at all.

I must embrace pain. I must embrace boredom. I must scratch and hurt myself from being so bored but still push through. I must face anxiety and live with it, bask in the anxiety 24/7, live in discomfort. I must go outside and run for hours, just pushing my body and feeling the pain and the boredom. That's so much better than wasting life on videos.

 

[KARENIN]

Jerk off to the nudes in hardcopy old issues of Playboy and Penthouse magazines so you'll create a positive feedback loop for analogue porn instead of digital media. Apparently the stories and articles are very well-written too.

 

[Original]

but why stop? if you’re a neet then does it matter what you do? are you planning on turning it all around or something?

 

[IGiveUp]

Here’s a video on how to stop internet addiction

 

[johan]

but why stop? if you’re a neet then does it matter what you do? are you planning on turning it all around or something?

@anon1822fourthacc turns into a "self improver" every few days

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

Jerk off to the nudes in hardcopy old issues of Playboy and Penthouse magazines so you'll create a positive feedback loop for analogue porn instead of digital media. Apparently the stories and articles are very well-written too.

You jest but it's not a bad idea. That being said, ideally I'll stop consuming ALL media. I didn't bother writing that into the OP cause it was long enough already.

I want to be free of all media. Even books other than non-fiction and maybe the classics.

 

[KARENIN]

Even books other than non-fiction and maybe the classics.

But it's impossible to coom to a science textbook or classic literature no matter how skilful your masturbation technique

 

[RNT]

Here’s a video on how to stop internet addiction

I'm embarassing sharing self help videos, but you leave me no choice.

This guy works for Epic Games making video games deliberatly as addictive as possible (he's PhD in psychology and leads a team of other specialists at the company). In his free time, he shares his ideas on how to overcome these deliberately caused addictions.

 

[johan]

But it's impossible to coom to a science textbook or classic literature no matter how skilful your masturbation technique

Speak for yourself, when I was in my early teens I coomed to the idea of being a sex slave after I read about Roman slave markets

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

But it's impossible to coom to a science textbook or classic literature no matter how skilful your masturbation technique

It's not cooming that I want, it's money, power. I want to mog, to have high status and money. That's the ultimate pleasure. Not instant gratification, long-term gratification.

 

[johan]

It's not cooming that I want, it's money, power. I want to mog, to have high status and money. That's the ultimate pleasure. Not instant gratification, long-term gratification.

> make your life as miserable as possible
> ???
> success

 

[Original]

It's not cooming that I want, it's money, power. I want to mog, to have high status and money. That's the ultimate pleasure. Not instant gratification, long-term gratification.

are you actually trying to get rich?

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

> make your life as miserable as possible
> ???
> success

Yes, because I want to get rid of all instant gratification. It doesn't satisfy me, it's pleasant in the moment but it leaves me unfulfilled. The pain of ripping myself away from sources of instant gratification and living in that state of suffering will be much more satisfying.

 

[johan]

Yes, because I want to get rid of all instant gratification. It doesn't satisfy me, it's pleasant in the moment but it leaves me unfulfilled. The pain of ripping myself away from sources of instant gratification and living in that state of suffering will be much more satisfying.

Good luck ig

 

[KARENIN]

It's not cooming that I want, it's money, power. I want to mog, to have high status and money. That's the ultimate pleasure. Not instant gratification, long-term gratification.

How do you plan to get rid of your current debilitating addiction to videos and digital media, and get hooked on obtaining money, power and status instead?

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

How do you plan to get rid of your current debilitating addiction to videos and digital media, and get hooked on obtaining money, power and status instead?

I'm indeed at a disadvantage since not only did I spend the entirety of my life, all of my free time since I was a kid doing this all day. But I also have nothing else, no friends or girlfriend or any sort of thing or person to spend time on other than consuming digital media in my room all alone.

But social stuff is just a distraction anyway. I don't want to be a normal person, not for one second.

Instead, I want to replace consuming media with activities such as cardio to improve my energy levels. And working on entrepreneurial endeavors (online of course, can't do shit irl in this shit ass corrupt country).

Other than the long-term gratification of fitness and money I'll probably find something else to add in there. Those 2 take up enough time.

Granted this is all hypothetical and I said these things many times before. But it is something that I truly want to do. Consuming media is such a waste of time, all these instant gratification activities are awful. Extremely mild dopamine being fed to you all day while you rot in bed, sure it feels good but 5 minutes later you forgot what you saw. So it's like you didn't live at all, time skipped forward. Even fucking heroin junkies have it better, at least they feel something strong. They make fucking memories. This shit I do doesn't even make memories, years fly by with zero memories. At least pain will be a memory as I deprive myself.

 

[Based Vampire]

I must embrace pain. I must embrace boredom. I must scratch and hurt myself from being so bored but still push through. I must face anxiety and live with it, bask in the anxiety 24/7, live in discomfort. I must go outside and run for hours, just pushing my body and feeling the pain and the boredom. That's so much better than wasting life on videos.

That's the only way brother if you go cold turkey. Do this for 2 weeks or a month and then you can come back to watching videos/lurking the forums but in moderation. It's not for everyone, however. Didn't work for me.

The biggest part of this is to replace binge watching with something. Like reading or creating something. When I'm busy doing this I get carried away and don't have the desire to watch anything. I haven't perfected this approach yet. But I'm working on it. Ideally I want to read most of my time, while occasionally maybe watching a movie. I'll go slow... The slow wins the race

 

[Based Vampire]

but why stop? if you’re a neet then does it matter what you do? are you planning on turning it all around or something?

That's a good question to ask. You need a strong reason in order to quit, @anon1822fourthacc . You need a new identity. A new meaning in life. An ultimate raison d'etat

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

That's a good question to ask. You need a strong reason in order to quit, @anon1822fourthacc . You need a new identity. A new meaning in life. An ultimate raison d'etat

I do have a goal, I want lots and lots of money. So I want to build an online business. And I don't just want a girlfriend, cause tbh if I had lots of money I wouldn't want one of these useless cunts. I want a woman worthy of being with a rich version of me that put in a lot of effort. Granted I'd fuck the firs bitch that would let me But long-term I'd like a bitch that I'm not ashamed of

Eh whatever, I exaggerated a bit, I guess I just want to allocate a few hours of my day to working on an online business. Ideally I'd do some cardio too. Other than that, getting a girlfriend will be absolutely impossible and I'm tired of doing weird shit to try and get women so for now I'm just hoping I can finally get my shit together and stop procrastinating for months and start working on a business.

 

[Based Vampire]

I do have a goal, I want lots and lots of money. So I want to build an online business. And I don't just want a girlfriend, cause tbh if I had lots of money I wouldn't want one of these useless cunts. I want a woman worthy of being with a rich version of me that put in a lot of effort. Granted I'd fuck the firs bitch that would let me But long-term I'd like a bitch that I'm not ashamed of

Eh whatever, I exaggerated a bit, I guess I just want to allocate a few hours of my day to working on an online business. Ideally I'd do some cardio too. Other than that, getting a girlfriend will be absolutely impossible and I'm tired of doing weird shit to try and get women so for now I'm just hoping I can finally get my shit together and stop procrastinating for months and start working on a business.

Yes, I've figured already by reading your latest post in this thread. I think it's a good decision to go for a smaller change on your part. Just tell yourself that your primary goal is to improve your health and the quality of life and try to make small changes. Without thinking about the grand picture. I guess not everyone needs a grand philosophical framework for any kind of activity like I do

Frankly, you don't even need to quit media at all. You can just exercise in the morning and rotting will feel much better for the rest of the day. But online business? I have no idea about that. You'll have to figure that out yourself. Anyway, my main point is about the importance of setting more realistic goals.

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

Yes, I've figured already by reading your latest post in this thread. I think it's a good decision to go for a smaller change on your part. Just tell yourself that your primary goal is to improve your health and the quality of life and try to make small changes. Without thinking about the grand picture. I guess not everyone needs a grand philosophical framework for any kind of activity like I do

Frankly, you don't even need to quit media at all. You can just exercise in the morning and rotting will feel much better for the rest of the day. But online business? I have no idea about that. You'll have to figure that out yourself. Anyway, my main point is about the importance of setting more realistic goals.

Yeah I actually know what to do, I've already got the plans both for the $ and for the fitness. Just gotta start working, that's the hard part. Doing instead of thinking about it.

 

[god.ly]

@anon1822fourthacc turns into a "self improver" every few days