Your Escapism with Games

[Zyst]

Hey guys, so I thought I'd make this thread. This site is oh-so-aptly named. Recently I broke up with my gf who I had been dating for 2 years and was or still am fairly broken hearted. I started playing more and more League of Legends, by the time I realized it I was playing around 12 hours a day, this happened a week or so ago but I just spend obscene amounts of time programming and gaming now.

So, my fellow Escapists. When do YOU Escape to games?

 

[Terminate421]

at 8 pm at night when there is hardly a noise in which I turn up the volume and turn off the lights on my giant diamond screen and play Xbox at night.

 

[Zhukov]

I don't really.

If I'm feeling depressed or angry or frustrated about something in the real world than games generally aren't able to take my mind off it. Hell, often they just make me feel worse.

Whether or not I can "escape" into a game is usually determined by the quality of the game, not my personal circumstances.

I find good books to be a more reliable refuge than games.

 

[Cavan]

For quite a long time all I would do every day all day is give myself distractions. Becoming more and more withdrawn. I still do to a lesser extent, it's hard to fight something as simple as your daily routine. Even if you have the benefit of being taken seriously and given thought, medication and understanding.

But anyway: if I had my games and my numbers and people to talk to online and videos and books and radio, then I could keep functioning within myself, I could block out everything I would think and hear and believe and then eventually obsess over for a little bit longer. Everything that threatened to overwhelm and confuse. Bad days meant this was 20-30 hours of actively finding things to do constantly until I was capable of crashing, even then getting to sleep became painful and staying asleep almost impossible because of nightmares and panic attacks.

Escapism at its finest, imo.