My wife recently started playing... When I found out, I made her uninstall it immediately. Right away, I could started to notice withdrawal signs... she's was easily aggravated and irritated... please focus on what's real in life, your friends and family.
concerned husband on 07/02/2009 - 20:07 - 0 comments

"Addiction" to game like of WoW is generally a symptom of a pre-existing problem in my experience, probably ADHD, lack of motivation, difficulty dealing with the real world, or some combination of all of these. From what I've seen, many folks who have an obsessive desire to escape into a virtual world are suffering in some way in the real world and WoW provides a convenient place to retreat.
Ben J Marzluff on 07/02/2009 - 09:42 - 1 comments

Our family is recovering. We will always love our daughter. We will always be there for her no matter what she has done or ever will do. But there is still pain, and there is now distance. She has moved out of our home. But later she chose to relocate a thousand miles away where she is free from our influence. I miss my daughter. We need to rid the world of WOW before more parents are missing their children as I miss mine.
edvento on 07/01/2009 - 18:54 - 0 comments

I have never played World of Warcraft, yet WOW has had a profound impact on my life and my family's. I am sure that my story is not at all unusual for I have spoken to many others who have had their own families harmed by this destructive presence which tries to represent itself as a harmless game akin to some hobby or watching TV. It is really not harmless entertainment. It is a horrible, all-consuming cancer in our lives and society.
archael34 on 07/01/2009 - 18:53 - 1 comments

5 years ago my 23 year old daughter's marriage fell apart. We knew they fought and I knew they always seemed to have financial problems. What I did not know was that WOW was at the root of all their problems. When their marriage ended, she returned home to live with her father and me. We tried to help her put her life back together. For a while things seemed to be going well, until one day last summer when we discovered that our business was missing hundreds of dollars. Unknown to us, our daughter had been stealing money from our company to finance her addiction...

This theft was disastrous to our family. The loss of the money was minor, though it did make life more difficult for a while. We lost something much more precious however... We lost trust in our daughter. We could not understand how she could do this those that loved her. However, we understand now. Gamers who play WOW MUST constantly violate their own value system in order to quench that desire to build their character and achieve SUCCESS in a virtual reality. A reality in which SUCCESS that comes so much easier and quicker than in real life. Achieving success in the WOW universe night after night must be wildly addicting. The magnetic pull of WOW is so engrossingly powerful. People need to be more aware of its dangers before it devours the lives more of our youth.
Jill Garner on 07/01/2009 - 18:52 - 0 comments

Gradually, I eliminated my social life, closed my door, and become an addict to WoW. I don't want to go out. I have lost all my friends. HELP!!! I am in DEEP in the WoW hole. 5 level 80s, working on more. How can I escape from this desolate, loner Hell? I have nothing else in life besides WoW or drugs.
b_stephanopoulos on 07/01/2009 - 13:39 - 0 comments

My cousin got her own computer about a year ago when she started collage. Everything was going awesome for her until her boyfriend got her into WoW. Little by little she did less and less school work, stopped going outside, stopped hanging out. Eventually all she did was play WoW. Me and her friends have tried using the parental control on the game, but she just finds other peoples accounts to play off of. She's THAT addicted.. Now she is stuck in her room, is failing all her classes, and does not even try at life anymore. Her room smells like arse too. If we don't feed her, she dose not eat, and when she does eat, its usually a bag of Doritos. People like her... all they all want to do is escape... they don't want to deal with real life. I would know since I used to be addicted to Everquest. Its a horrible thing to go through, and people should pay a lot more attention to their family and friends who are addicted. It's a big problem that only grows larger the more it is ignored.
idaniboy on 07/01/2009 - 02:54 - 0 comments
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