Warcraft destroyed the woman I was gonna marry.
Yes, you read well. I swear this is a true story.
You've all heard "urban legends" of people turning into slaves of the computer, forsaking food, friends, family, basic hygiene, job, sex, everything. It happened to her. Our couple slowly desintegrated during the first year she started playing this game. The sense of accomplishment and never-ending reward warped her mind, and her behavior deteriorated :
-She woke up at any time of the day and night, played, went to the bathroom once or twice, then went to bed.
-She would turn violent, throwing dishes and anything (only stuff that belonged to me) across the place if I ever dared to say:" I work 45 hours/week, so now it's my turn." She clawed my face once, narrowly missing my right eye. I violently pushed her away, then immediately called the cops. To arrest myself. Because I had hurt a woman and was wracked with guilt.
-She got fired from the 3 secretary jobs I had helped her find.
-Friends and family would come and visit us sometimes and invariably she would claim she was tired and go to bed, or lock the door and play.
-3-4 months without sex.
-She would not wear anything but her pyjama, would not shower, shave, look presentable for weeks on ends.
-She would look at the clock during each of our meals and complain that I didn't allow her to eat in the computer room. (Supper is supposed to be eaten in the kitchen, with family, at 17h, That's it that's all, Tabarnak!) She found a trick though: She would hide and eat peanut butter on bread (not toasts; toasting takes too much time) behind my back and then say she was not hungry for my cooking anymore.
Long story short, imagine any possible kind of trouble any obsessive-compulsive behavior or drug addiction can get you into: she did it.
You take drugs: you can go to rehab. You drink: there is Alcoholics Anonymous. You gamble: there is G.A. You have mental problems: there are psychologists.
But who is there to help with a videogame? It is a "new" sickness, after all.
Who do you talk to about it? I live in a rural region of Québec. Doctors are scarce and I couldn't even get her out of the house.
My friends and family only mocked me, telling me to "Man up! Slap her, Beat her, Kick her out, take a frikken fire axe and destroy the computer, anything." And believe me: I tried a few times but her suicide menaces prevented me from going through with it.
So I called her mother to come and pick her up, and take her away for a few days or so. So she would rest and think. She came back to br eak up with me... and take the computer away. 4000$ of MY money, but we had used HER credit card at the beginning. The law protects women better than it does men, regardless of whose fault it is. And nowadays in Canada, spend a full year with a girl and you are considered married. So the one with the bigger salary will often be forced by law to pay a pension to the undeserving other, even without children. (Argue all you want, it is a fact of life. Look it up. Period.)
It's been 4 years and I still help her from times to times. She is the exact same. Only her health is worse. She is whiter (I mean: Casper-white) and fatter. And has only ONE single conversation topic: Warcraft. She never tried working. She lives off welfare.
I know she has a mental problem, but Warcraft acted as a catalyst.
