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View Poll Results: Do Video Games Calm You?
Yes I enjoy playing video games regularly; it relaxes me. 18 32.14%
I occasionally play video games to relax. 23 41.07%
I never play video games. 15 26.79%
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Old 10-09-2008, 06:38 AM
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I'm so glad to be absolved of my guilt of playing games! Thanks all. I don't really play all that often, but I sooooo enjoy the yahoo puzzle games or solitaire, tetris, etc. They are all very calming to me. The games allow me to put stuff in order, control my environment, focus completely on something other than the issues in my life. I do play better too the worse off I am. Funny, huh? I don't like violent games though. (triggers) Maybe I'll treat myself to a Nintendo at some point :) Interesting poll and thanks for the links above, anyone hear of therapy we can access if we don't fit in those specific situations?
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Yup....I always have a few screens open on my computer at once and while I wait for screens to refresh or whatever I play the game. Usually something pretty mindless....or a puzzle game but not like a real brainy one....I think its a kind of dissociation maybe. I dunno.
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The DH and I have computer sitting side by side and we are World of Warcraft addicts. We have 10 lvl 70's and counting. Enough said...lol

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I don't know if the games calm me as much as focus my attention on something else - and that comforts me. I am more apt to play a game of backgammon or scrabble against the computer than actually play a video game. I can tell when I am particularly troubled because I will wake up during the night feelijng the need to play a game of scrabble. Then I can go back to sleep.
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I play a lot of video games. the problem is finding ones that i'm interested in before the one I'm playing becomes stale. Maybe I'll cave and try WoW. LOL
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The video games that I play are not very realistic. I like to play halo shotting aliens are not like shooting people. I do find the hunt relaxing.
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